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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

That's the thing with guaranteed drops. Content ends faster. That's one reason why stuff in older MMOs lasted so long. It took months/years to obtain gear. Not because the content was particularly difficult or long lived, but because you had fractions of a percent chance to get the item you wanted. Sure, not having increased ilvls every other patch helps make that a possibility, since no one in their right mind would spend months grinding an item that's obsolete the next day because a new patch just dropped, but I never enjoyed the old MMO rng style of things, and I played Lineage II over XI lol.

Maybe but there's things that can be done to provide new experiences better. For example POTD and HOH were poorly executed. Even though its procedurally generated its just super samey and boring. Imagine procedurally generated areas that have diverse terrains and rooms.

They could easily do entire forests, deserts, and oceans/archipelagos on a ship that always look vastly different for deep dungeon exploration style experiences. But instead they are just barely distinguishable rooms with random mobs.

Like, replayability value doesn't always have to be tied down to a reward for doing the exact same thing over and over. Older MMO's didnt have access to this tech, so thats why they did it, but its 2023, and plenty of examples of this stuff exists.

Edit: Bosses can stand to be a bit more random, with a pool of a lot of mechanics that may or may not be executed in that instance. It just doesn't always have to be the same thing.

I would take extreme bosses with 25 mechanics, out of which only 12 are executed per instance, and reducing the totems to 50 from 100, that would be more fun, more replayable, than what exists right now for example. Same with Savage, with the cap being removed alltogether because obviously its going to be way harder. Instead of this running wheel we spin on to get our weeks worth.