Allagan Tomestone of Astronomy should have a seasonal cap, not a weekly cap

[Johners]

Capped Tomestones are fine, it just needs to be capped seasonally and not weekly. Under the current model, if you miss a week it's 450 missed Tomestones but if you cap seasonally, you can still keep up with the overall cap.

Let's say, for example, you play week 1 and 3 but can't play during week 2 for whatever reason. On the weekly cap you only earn 900. On a season cap, you earn 450 in week 1 and then a further 900 in week 3 which averages to 450 a week.

This is a much more casual friendly system as you're not required to log in and hit that cap every week. Very handy given the current queueing situation but just handy in general for people with commitments elsewhere. You won't outpace the intended level of progression which is earning 450 Tomestones a week, you just get more flexibility on when to earn them.

Likewise, when the weekly cap becomes 900 per week later in the tier, you just increase the seasonal cap by 900 a week instead of 450.

[BluexBird]

Do Expert Roulette once a day for 5 days a week and you'll cap.

Not that I think you suggestion is bad. I just don't see them ever implementing something like this. lol

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Its already casual friendly tho, capped tomes arent needed for casual content

[Johners]

Its already casual friendly tho, capped tomes arent needed for casual content

It not being needed and it not being wanted are two different things. I don't really have too much of an interested in raiding savage personally but I'd still like to earn the gear to progress my character's power as it still has enough meaning (plus I'm a loot gremlin from my WoW days). It would be nice to miss a week from time-to-time, due to other IRL commitments, without falling behind on the intended progression of earning 450 Tomestones a week.

[MagiusNecros]

They actually do have a seasonal cap when they get deleted in favor of becoming a Poetic Tomestone trade in.

[JamieRose]

I don't really understand the point of the cap. Why is it so important to keep people away from gear that they clearly need?

[lezard21]

I don't really understand the point of the cap. Why is it so important to keep people away from gear that they clearly need?

It's called Content Padding, and it's important when you don't develop enough content to prevent your playerbase from unsubscribing

[RyuDragnier]

I don't really understand the point of the cap. Why is it so important to keep people away from gear that they clearly need?

To prevent players from absolutely trivializing endgame stuff. The difference in damage and survivability between somebody who is in the full normal tomestone gear and full capped tomestone gear is pretty big, and it can often result in stuff that WILL kill players to ALMOST kill players. Meaning you can basically trivialize some things by just having players take the hit instead of doing the mechanics, and they want players to LEARN to do stuff, not just brute force it within a week.

[Izar_Chillen]

I don't really understand the point of the cap. Why is it so important to keep people away from gear that they clearly need?

Time gating is the default modus operandi for all MMOs . If players could gear up in a week or few, with BIS gear during the first month of a new expack players would get bored and have little reason to log in and unsub . This game doesn't allow you to utilize the BiS outside of current tier raids as your always item synced down in other duties and the game doesn't have much to do unless your fine with repeating the same old hunt/fate farming which weve done for years . Getting BiS fast would kill reason to keep subbing until a new tier release.

Carrot and Stick.exe

[Larirawiel]

Sorry but the cap should be removed entirely. Such caps are only FOMO mechanics.

Cheers