Weekly Lockout on normal Raids necessary?

[Banggugyangu]

So? Didn't Yoshi-P himself say that we should take breaks and play other games? The vast majority of people won't grind things out instantly and I see no reason to stop the very small minority that would.

From the "taking a break" standpoint, what difference is there in raid logging, getting your weekly drops in a couple hours, then "taking a break" and playing something else until tuesday? From a game longevity and game health perspective, there's a HUGE difference, but from the "taking a break" perspective, there's functionally no difference, except that perhaps the individual doing that would be less likely to burn out.

[Zakuyia]

So? Didn't Yoshi-P himself say that we should take breaks and play other games? The vast majority of people won't grind things out instantly and I see no reason to stop the very small minority that would.

you really think people care about what he says....just look at forum and ask yourself....When given life are we meant to suffer...then relook at forums theres your answers.

[CNitsah]

So? Didn't Yoshi-P himself say that we should take breaks and play other games? The vast majority of people won't grind things out instantly and I see no reason to stop the very small minority that would.

It's a mmo, it NEEDS some retention mechanics, that give you long term goal. That part of the whole kick of MMORPGs. They already forgot that when they removed the relics grind and the exploratory zones et didn't replace it by anything, and we all saw how it went. The lack of things to commit on the long run is the worst that can happen in a MMO. The other solution si giving new content regulary (every couple of week), but we know that ain't happening.

Also, don't forget that, for someone that don't do extremes/savage, that weapon will be the main weapon for until the end of 6.1 for the augmented version, in 6 to 7 month.

[Valence]

Instead of lowering or uncapping anything, I think they could introduce a twofold system if they really wanted:

- Week 1: Normal mode raid release with no change, same gear than usual
- Week 2/3: Savage mode release, and introduction of tokens for raid gear augmentation so that the gear stays competitive with crafted and the new tomes.
- Next odd patch (x.1, x.3, x.5 patches): ability to spend the same tokens now to augment a second time the raid gear in order to stay competitive with the augmented tome gear of that patch (which requires AR token coins). Would essentially be equivalent to the savage gear minus maybe dyability or whatever.

This would bring two main benefits:
1) NM raids would still get run for the whole duration of the tier, so over 2 patches, instead of drying up after a mere 2-3 weeks when savage releases.
2) Offering more gearing options to casual players that don't do savage. Having only tomestone gear with no serious competition or alternative feels really bad when you're not raiding. Not only it takes ages to gear a single job, but on top of it you can't customize anything and will have to eat bad sks/sps, anything.