Soldier medallion droprate fix

[Renork]

Drop rates/acquisition rates (not the same thing) are something that will be balanced over the long term. It's obviously not something we can fine tune with ~20 devs and core testers in different time zones. We need to be able to take metrics with the 500+ live player count, and we need the community to understand that this is a "living" system. We say "this is an alpha" a lot, but that means a lot more than "we have a lot of bugs."

I think everyone posting here (or at least myself) is posting to provide you with feedback. We want to help let you know how the community feels about the current acquisition rate. ^_^ Please, don't take it as complaining or criticism. We are simply trying to provide constructive feedback.


Would you be able to let us know what the chance for a player to drop a soldier medallion is? Is it currently a 10% rate? I was trying to point out, at a 10% drop chance with a 16% chance to win in a 6 man, you would average 3 medallions per 200 kills as a group of 6.

I did sc's last night and today some and I already have 15 of them....soooo just do sc's. I see people pveing keeps all day~ such a waste.

Open world pvp needs to be just as rewarding as SCs. I agree I think SCs is the most efficient way to farm atm, I think that's a problem tho.

I completely disagree with you. Look back at your previous/older posts.

1) You asked for t3 to be released - check
2) You asked for them to increase the rr cap, or people will get "bored" -not done
3) You want to increase the drop rate on the medallions. -done sort of-


So, what happens when you get your gear set? You're going to come back and ask for t4, more weapons, increase the rr cap etc. Your posts are contradicting, first you want them to increase caps so that you don't get bored, but... you think the medallion grind is too slow? what?

[Genisaurus]

1-2 months of hard farming to get a set that is plain broken without stats at all like magus set, or just stats without the set bonuses?
And the next day you buy this set the server gets a full item wipe

Not blaming devs or anything! Just saying why I don't even bother with farming medals

Dat weaponskill on the magus gear <:

Maguses gotta parry too.

Really though, all RvR sets should have all the correct stats, and their set bonuses funcitoning. There is a bug where set bonuses do not display at the vendor, but they should display in the inventory. If any pieces are actually missing stats, or any set bonuses do not work*, either let me know, put it on the bugtracker, or both.

* - Except for the Devastator 5-piece, which are not implemented yet.

[Nishka]

I've been thinking about devastator set... And I've changed my mind about it. We tend to forget that t3 is the end game zone for now and devastator is the best set in the game. It aren't supposed to be easy to get. Think about it as t3 analogue of sovereign, the price and med drop rate makes sense then.

[magter3001]

I've been thinking about devastator set... And I've changed my mind about it. We tend to forget that t3 is the end game zone for now and devastator is the best set in the game. It aren't supposed to be easy to get. Think about it as t3 analogue of sovereign, the price and med drop rate makes sense then.

It shouldn't take months of farming to get though.

[Nishka]

I've been thinking about devastator set... And I've changed my mind about it. We tend to forget that t3 is the end game zone for now and devastator is the best set in the game. It aren't supposed to be easy to get. Think about it as t3 analogue of sovereign, the price and med drop rate makes sense then.

It shouldn't take months of farming to get though.

About 1 month of very active pvp-ing in orvr should be enough to get a full set.

[zabis]

helpful feedback made in absence of all the facts.

This is a very nice way of calling someone stupid

[Genisaurus]

helpful feedback made in absence of all the facts.

This is a very nice way of calling someone stupid

Not my intent, I meant it exactly as it appears.

[Coryphaus]

I've been thinking about devastator set... And I've changed my mind about it. We tend to forget that t3 is the end game zone for now and devastator is the best set in the game. It aren't supposed to be easy to get. Think about it as t3 analogue of sovereign, the price and med drop rate makes sense then.

which begs the question should we make all rvr armor sets hard t get and approach with this mentality?

What happens in T4 them where conq, invader, warlord, and sov are?

should all take ages to grind out?

[Nishka]

I've been thinking about devastator set... And I've changed my mind about it. We tend to forget that t3 is the end game zone for now and devastator is the best set in the game. It aren't supposed to be easy to get. Think about it as t3 analogue of sovereign, the price and med drop rate makes sense then.

which begs the question should we make all rvr armor sets hard t get and approach with this mentality?

What happens in T4 them where conq, invader, warlord, and sov are?

should all take ages to grind out?

No, except for sov. But when it's so easy to get a set as it was on live ( where upon reaching the requirements you could just go to a vendor and buy it for gold) many aspects of the game lose sense. From reward chests to alternative sets. Why to farm for tyrant when you can buy sovereign for gold?

[Omarcomin]

get geared
realize you haven't played the game because you were too busy pveing keeps
???
profit.