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Not sure where people get the idea that NOT going for Gold is fine. If you're not aiming for the best, why even do vets. The changes made it a bit more user friendly but once again, gold will always be what you want in order to truly be successful.


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no, it isnt. you are guaranteed purples from the final boss now. or you are supposed to be... no matter what medal you get. that isnt true though, because something is broken. i have had gold runs that have dropped no purples. that isnt even possible. you are supposed to get ATLEAST one purple no matter what medal you get.


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This can't be serious. You're punishing people by taking away the one carrot they could count on for slogging through the bore-fests that are adventures and dungeons, adding an RNG roll in its place, and calling it an improvement? What if your employer said you were no longer getting a set amount per week (because going through adventures and dungeons is boring work, make no mistake), but had a chance to earn more than you were making previously while still earning less the majority of the time? Would you be happy with that situation? No? Then can you understand the perspective of your playerbase?


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In THEORY. The odds are WAY too stacked against it, tho. Basically, what the changes did was to reward luck instead of skill (or at least the ability to communicate).


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So moving a BOE from one point in my inventory to another would make it soulbound? Because that's what's happening. If I try to move it from say... the first slot of my back, to the bottom of my bag, I get the confirmation on binding. That's more than a little bizarre since Im not trying to equip it.


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But at least with the old system a Gold run would have a smaller loot table for an epic item for rewarding the party on a job well done. Yes they could in "theory" get 4 epic items but I feel most will never see that. Just did a WotW on gold with my guild and we did get 2 epics at the end but where the same item that no one could use. I lost count how many WotW I did for my tanking heavy gun and glad I finally for it before the loot changes as I feel I probably would have never got it with the loot table so big now. Seems like your trying to take a step back when you already have gone through the door and you are only punishing the players that are doing well in an attempt to control the disbanding of failed gold runs to finish the instance. I am pretty sure if people don't get gold on adventures they will disband and try again still because of the % chance of more epics if on gold as you have stated. "Now, every group has a chance of getting an Epic item for just defeating the boss despite the medal they earn, but can get MORE epic items if they perform well." ~CRB_Anlath So that means if pug members are not performing well they will likely disband as they want the higher chance for epics. You have changed nothing, we will still have pugs disbanding, and now you punished the good groups with a RNG chance for 0-4 epics that they are trying to get to progress up to raiding. I would say I am on the lower end of the RNG with Wildstar as progressing my tank set has been very slow compared to most in my guild and now having a wider loot table that must pass a RNG check but the actual RNG for loot seems like you want us to grind grind grind. So how is making the loot table bigger with a RNG check for blues and purples base on a percent check that is based on medal status gonna keep pug groups from disbanding? Funny thing is I don't even pug anymore.


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If the original post was as clear as this explanation, then you would have seen much of this current feedback originally. If you had responded to people asking for clarification on the question of guaranteed purples, literally the sixth response to the thread announcing the update, you would have gotten much of this negative feedback immediately instead of after implementation. At least you can file this incident under lessons learned and improve on it next time.

Working as intended. The people wanted this change, so now the people get to live with it. Textbook example and all that.


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If they left it as guaranteed epic for gold medal, as the main drop, and all rolls still had a chance at epics. Non golds would now get chances at epics at least, right?


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And still when your craft does not become white and when your statistics do not disappear


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You left out a part:

Roughly translated, "The table from which [existing gold medal rewards] drops has a chance to be selected and is granted in addition to [the final bosses or encounters] regular loot." So, implemented as described and working as intended.


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The issue with this statement are the new players or people switching mains. Now there chance at getting a purple is just a 20% to 30% chance on there gear dropping. This is horse crap, at this point in time I am re-rolling to engineer because of the threat issues that warriors have. Yes I know that there up coming changes to the warrior threat, but without a patch date it can come out in December for all we know. So now for me to get my engineer to the same point my warrior is in gear, it's going to take at least 3 times the amount of played time. Great, it wasn't already mind numbing to run the 5mans to get my core group all the gear, now it becomes more so. Yay....


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No, it's not worth wasting 60 minutes for 3 blue items.


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I don't know if it's derogatory, but it definitely isn't complimentary. If I were to go into my office and call my supiorers cupcake, I doubt I would get the stamp of approval. I don't want to even think about what could happen if I called any of my female clients "Cupcake". Doubt I would be working with that client anymore... so yeah, seems to be a bit derogatory to me. But maybe it is not so much derogatory as it is demeaning. Trust me, I am all about not being over sensative, but words can mean different things based on the audiance or recieving party. With carbine's issues so far post launch, I don't believe they have room to be snarky/sarcastic.


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Well, I know my static has ceased doing adventures and dungeons and all are now working on alts due to these marvelous changes while they wait for them to revert/stop sucking.


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