Tomestone weekly cap?

[Gemina]

Disagree. If you're trying hard you can hit the cap in 1-3 days. What's the point of running anything (casual) after that? There's no benefit at all.

I think you're missing the point here. A time gate is irrelevant to casual players like me. The current tomes is not how I gear up my main jobs, so I don't even need them. However, I will still use them since I get them from doing roulettes. The cap doesn't serve to gate me from anything. It is seen more like something I am compelled to do because there is a cap.

These two statement (IMHO) are contradictory. First you say you're only doing it to not lose out on currency but then you say you acknowledge it helps the community. Which is it?

There really isn't a contradiction. Except that it can be difficult for most players to grasp that some people willingly contribute without much regard for personal benefit. I know this is crazy weird, but I still run daily roulettes even after capping my tomes.

[Amenara]

I think you're missing the point here. A time gate is irrelevant to casual players like me. The current tomes is not how I gear up my main jobs, so I don't even need them. However, I will still use them since I get them from doing roulettes. The cap doesn't serve to gate me from anything. It is seen more like something I am compelled to do because there is a cap.



There really isn't a contradiction. Except that it can be difficult for most players to grasp that some people willingly contribute without much regard for personal benefit. I know this is crazy weird, but I still run daily roulettes even after capping my tomes.

How about this, it is a time gate for players who want to run the hardest content and get BiS. It's great that you don't feel gated by it but I imagine a good part of the playerbase does because it is part of the reason it can take 2 months to get BiS on one role. As for encouraging helping the community, I guess I am helping by running my 5 expert roulettes and nothing else to cap my tomestones.

[Gemina]

How about this, it is a time gate for players who want to run the hardest content and get BiS. It's great that you don't feel gated by it but I imagine a good part of the playerbase does because it is part of the reason it can take 2 months to get BiS on one role. As for encouraging helping the community, I guess I am helping by running my 5 expert roulettes and nothing else to cap my tomestones.

Maybe. But hard-core raiders have their progress halted more so by only being allowed one token, per instance, per week. Am I right about that? Or something along those lines anyway. If I use NM weeklies as an example, the weekly tomes cap has nothing to do with loot you can only receive once per week from these duties. IOW, tomes have no value in terms of obtaining the rewards from those duties.

Tomes are an alternate means to gear up BiS, and since players grinding them out week after week don't really need them to actively participate in their favorite content, I see zero gates. Not even anything resembling one.

Oh and I understand how players feel gated. The purpose of my post is to try and alleviate that. I feel players should run the content they want to, but also understand the importance of incentivizing the content they feel are a chore to do.