Thread: 4.1 - The emptiest patch yet.

Originally Posted by Zojha

That aside, in HW, they did try to make "new" types of content - PotD and Diadem. The prior is relegated to a leveling tool now that Aetherpool and Kinna weapons are old, the latter died twice, both times after the rewards got old. They're probably cooking up more, but it won't matter because 6 months after it gets released, it'll be dead.

The issue in your argument is that the reward did not meet the expectation of the current already available ilvl.

Kinna weapons released when we had 260 shire gear already.
Similarly Padji weapons were not of the best ilvl for the current raid tier and/or content for tomes. They were also below it. In this case, 24 main raid content, not tome gear ilvl or equivalent. Made the crafting weapons much better HQ.
Allagan Tomestone of Scripture was introduced in patch 3.4.
Floor 51-100 for Kinna weapons and upgrades released 3.5.
By them they were worse than what you could have already had in a few weeks, or primals and crafted gear.

The problem with Diadem was that the gear drop rate was abysmal with rng stats, and also not of the same ilvl up to the current tomes progression gear. Also, it was a FATE system implemented. Had they changed it to something like a zone where you fight new notorious monsters that took an equal amount of effort to kill from tons of parties, similar to Ixion pre nerf, it may have been a different story. But fates is what deterred people from wanting to play it. As that's all it really was. Nobody likes fates. Leveling, I suppose. Rewards? Not really. Although the only ones I say I will defend is the Ixion fate and the Fox fate, as I loved those rewards. But outside of that, I do everything I can to never do fates again after ixion unless something better comes out. :l

Originally Posted by Remedi

Look I understand your point of wanting some changes, But changing things up is never an easy thing especially if it over night, just look to the class changes every damn expansion, ppl freaks out for literally nothing sometimes.
The other problem is that cooking up something meaningful now it's very hard and as other have said the mentality in gaming atm is get everything now or bust and I too would like for it to be changed but that's not something that neither I nor SE can fix

That's kind of the point of the patches. Brainstorming. Devs could also use those months and/or have some off devs or interns checking on a series of other game titles and bringing those ideas they find good or best. Now we'll be seeing less of the same stuff we're getting. Oh! But we're getting PVP stuff! But just like the feast before, now and later, it will be ignored for cheaters, and also by means of win trading. So there's that.