Thread: 5.57 patch notes! They did it!

I mean, I have 44 leftover raw emotions and only 12 artifacts, and that's because I got fed up with having the quest completed for my AST with all the Dal farming for notes, so most of those emotions are not from DR runs, anyway. DR will be better for overall farming, sure, but certainly won't kill Dal what with the Field Notes behind it and the mount.

That was certainly a needed change, though. It seems to be generally agreed that the timeworn step is (or was?) the worst.

Originally Posted by lezard21

DR is tedious period.

The Timeworn Artifact drop rate was a different issue.

This… so… much…

The fix helps ease the pain but the pain is still there.

Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

You don't get the mettle reward nor the chance at the notes which many need and with that terrible drop rate spamming Dal will continue to be a thing. I need the artifacts too but getting the emotions was never the problem it was the artifacts.

DR gives an absolute truck load of mettle. It has done for a while now.

And it's much faster to with people having honours

Originally Posted by Dzian

DR gives an absolute truck load of mettle. It has done for a while now.

And it's much faster to with people having honours

600k an absolute truckload? It's about as much as single CE in Zadnor gives, hardly a truckload. Dalriada gives 3mil and takes much less time.

Hmm?
They didn't do the ONE thing I was expecting - let you upgrade the i520 tomestone weapons to i530 from just running the 24-man?
It's all about Eureka 2, Electric Boogaloo instead? And for some reason 900 Revelation/week early?

I guess there's still 5.58.

I'd rather they give us an alternate way of augmenting the current tomestone weapons and completely abandon the current 24 man series. They were a poorly designed, poorly implemented experiment that failed in every front. Were it not for the amount of time and resources it would take, I'd even go as far as suggesting to completely remove it and design a new 24 man raid series from scratch.

But alas, guess it will remain as a lesson on why not to pander to a small demographic.

Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Despite what anyone thinks of the current raids, this is how they have handled the tomestone gear upgrades in the past. This is nothing new. It worked in the past, and it works just fine now. There's no pandering involved. It's standard procedure. The content of the raids themselves have nothing to do with it.

I was not saying augmenting gear through raids is pandering. I was saying the current raids are the result of pandering to a small crowd, and as a result they feel disconnected and poorly implemented, and I'd rather not be forced to run them again.

Originally Posted by lezard21

I was not saying augmenting gear through raids is pandering. I was saying the current raids are the result of pandering to a small crowd, and as a result they feel disconnected and poorly implemented, and I'd rather not be forced to run them again.

Outside of the story quests, what makes them feel any more poorly designed than previous raids?