Thread: Lessons from red scrips for 3.3

Originally Posted by Nutz

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What the devs haven't grasped is the notion that the changes are acceptable, but not implemented correctly or timely. Contrary to popular belief, a red scrip system IS fine, but it needed to be in conjunction with a "simpler" means of obtaining crafting/gathering gear. In no way am I saying that this means handing out the gear, not at all. They just needed to take a step back on a couple design choices.

If favors, for example, weren't as gated and a bore to get to do at all, within a gated and strictly timed manner, the crafting of equips for these secondaries would not be as daunting of a repetitive goal. If scrips were allowed a more accessible means to obtain them in a decent, yet reasonably time consuming way, then that'd be a lot more enjoyable. Likewise if the 450 and 500 limit was raised a little. Unlike PvE combat, the entire point of crafting and gathering is the repetition behind obtaining your goal crafted/gathered items (i.e. the grind). Generally speaking, people aren't spending so much time getting gear in PvE combat with the express intent that they can spend exponentially more time grinding the same damn thing. That's how crafting/gathering works though, and it seems to have been overlooked.

Again, the system does work, but they took it too far with so many gated and timed restrictions. It just makes things seem... dull and unnecessarily convoluted in such a short time. It's a give and take to keep things enjoyable, they just haven't balanced it out with all the changes (yet).

HW began the era of the Held-Back Crafters and Gatherers. It does way too much in attempting to restrict, than it does to allow the enjoyment. It takes away from what people psychologically enjoyed from before. We actually see this in other ways as well, since HW released. Just look at BRD, with the introduction of WM. There was a likely intentional attempt to control and steer/direct the players playstyle with this expansion. Why? Who knows. It's just unfortunate that a rather optional secondary portion had to be hit with it more than normal.