These Resplendent tools are a joke

[Jojoya]

I don't get it either. When they considered adding a new title to the ranked seasons, they received a lot of feedback that people just didn't want to do that again, it was a burn out and exhausting. The Pteranodon mount has an extremely low acquisition rate too and there are even people who have admitted outside of the game to botting it. Experts worked because of the challenge and initial theorycraft, not the intense grind. They're both forgetting their design mentality of "if it's not fun you're doing it wrong" and overestimating the value of and how much "bragging rights" you get from crafting. It feels like Experts have become something to keep the players who enjoyed endgame crafts quiet in the corner, while they simplify the bulk of it and try to force it on the people who have no real interest in crafting to boost participation. They can say "but we gave you months worth of hardcore content!".

Other hardcore content gives useful rewards along the way with every success during those months. You get Relevation and Allegory, you get some sort of token (totems or books) that can be collected in small numbers to exchange for gear in a job of your choice (or for a mount in the case of the totems if you don't get lucky with a direct drop). You sometimes get other random loot (Orchestrion rolls, mounts, crafting material for bardings/housing items).

This isn't offering a comparable reward system unless we're expected to compare it to Ultimate. Spend hours making small progress until finally completed to get a tool (weapon) then repeat for each class.

This system also has an entry fee. We're required to spend large amounts of scrip to buy the materials needed to start the process for each tool. Other hardcore content does not have an entry fee.

I salute those who are willing to go to the effort to get their shiny gold tool. It's just not worth it to me.

[PKFC]

Ah yes. This is the thread I needed.

Regged for the forum just to post here because RIP casual nice things. Not sure who asked for more expert recipes, but congrats to them. Moar hardcore only D: I never want to meld in my life and you didn't need to before. It was still a huge damn hurdle, but just annoyingly long, not annoyingly stat/RNG based.

FSH is still super hard, but I crammed 330 ish FSH in Jan to catch up to 4.5's achievement. But yeah... Too bad I didn't catch that bug where you could just ask the calamity salvager for resplendent tools :P

It was fun while it lasted though