Main/off spec sets & currencies

[bobthehero]

Yeah but depending on your class, you can do an epic quest and you don't need the emblem weapon.

[Cheogh]

No freebies plz
Unified currency would mess up orvr, medalions are much more difficult to obtain than emblems so people would just switch to sc farm (tell me, where can you get 6+ medalions in 5-10minutes?)
Even if it was somewhat balanced then people woud go for easier and 'guaranteed' source of currency which is scenarios
If we take the reward to 1 currency for win it's still 1 currency guaranteed for everyone on winning side

And one more thing - diversity is the key to long-term fun! Otherwise people will get bored after few weeks

As a dps dok I'm forced to do SCs, as Anni set is useless to me if I don't ever plan to switch builds. If I could get emblems from RVR that would give me an incentive to participate in it. Unified currency = diversity, different currency = forced into specific activity.

[seedz]

The "issue" (if we can call it that way) is that the three ways of getting the gear are not equally balanced. You get kind of a constant medalions income from scenarios, a more situational income from oRvR and a totally RNG based gear from PQ. Talking for myself as a tank I found the PQ farming process kind of boring. I got lucky and dropped the 2 first piece fast enough, then got some duplicates, worked my way to the third one, but the motivation dropped significantly after that. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not whining a the difficulty or the time needed to obtain something, but I would rather spend my time in scenarios or oRvR for obtaining it ^^.

One solution would maybe be to keep the actual currencies but adding a new one that can be exchanged against one of the another. So, the thing is to find out the ratio to give away this third currency and its exchange rate. Or a most simple one would be to create a possibility to exchange the medallions but with a 1:X ratio, and of course make the PvE set available to buy against currency.

Well, that was just some thoughts on the go while reading this thread, and I'm sure that one can easily find some arguments against it.

[szejoza]

No no no. Dunno where the prob is. Yesterday i go a bit solo rvr in praag. I got 86 Medaillons in two hours. And u need much more emblems than Medaillons. If u want weapon and so on. I Farmed in scs 1600 emblems and still dont have Set and weapon. U just need 700 Medaillons to get all Medaillon rewards. So its Not easyier to get anhilator than merc Set. Just dont follow stupid zerg. Make a lil Group and kill ppl and u get Medaillons fast

If you take weapons into consideration then ofc sc's need more, but if we were talking only about armor sets (as there no weapons from PQ/ORVR atm) then you need only 880 emblems from scenarios so it's comparable
And everything is difficult with pugs be it sc's or orvr

[Telperien]

Problem I see is basic archetype armor is harder to get than for other classes. Example? Healing default DoK vs Sorc. Heal set from RVR and "most off set" from SCs. And no matter how much it cost, its the access to income of certain currency.
On the note with going easy way: if spoken activity still require some time and commitment I think its fine. Compared to afk roaming on Live, RoR got staff willing to prevent such leeching.

[Vayra]

If you want the best gear you'll have to participate in all the various content. Back on live you couldn't get any sets from SC's (except dropped boots/gloves from the rvr sets). Only weapons, and even that was a late addition.

Thats just wrong. Back on live, the medaillons for the gear dropped on quite a regular basis in scenarios. This is not the case here.

Did medallions still drop after they introduced Emblems? I honestly don't recall. But back on live we also didn't have an armour set drop from SC's, so it makes sense to limit it. For a better comparison with live, you had the rvr pieces of gear coming ONLY from RVR (with boots / gloves being dropped in SCs too) which for healers were mostly dps gear. And then you had the healing gear coming from dungeons, with no overlap in ways to get them.

I got lucky and dropped the 2 first piece fast enough, then got some duplicates, worked my way to the third one, but the motivation dropped significantly after that. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not whining a the difficulty or the time needed to obtain something, but I would rather spend my time in scenarios or oRvR for obtaining it ^^.

This could be mitigated by fixing Master Loot and opt out of gold bags. With Masterloot I could give you my gold bag if I don't want it. Which means you can get a balanced group going and vastly increase the chances of getting a bag. I don't recall if you could check the contents of the bag before giving it away on live, but if that is possible it would be even easier to give out the gold bags to the group members that need that piece.

[Daknallbomb]

me personal mind feels like its to easy to obtain both sets .
u can buy two parts of set with gold so u just need 3 more parts thats rly done in a short time both emblem and medalion sets .
in wich mmo u can get the moore or less best in slot in 20 hours playtime or something

[Nameless]

they just need to make a npc that convernt merc gear into anni and vice versa

[redmage3]

Well what if instead of breaking up sets into certain aspects of the game, like SCs only giving mercenary gear, we had certain pieces of different sets available through different aspects. For instance: Ruin, Merc, and Annihilator boots drop from SCs, the helms drop from PQs, gloves in oRvR, chests from Keeps, and shoulders can be purchased with emblems/medallions. This would encourage diversity in different areas of the game, fairness between all classes and specs, take out the "path of least resistance" problem, and remove the "All 20 of my gold bags have been chests!" problem.

This way even if someone absolutely refuses to do PQs, they're only missing out on 1 potential piece of BiS equipment, instead of being totally shafted.

[Bacta]

To all complaining, it really isn't that hard to get SC weapons/sets or RvR gear. I think the way it's set up currently is perfect. It gives players something to work for in multiple areas of the game. No one is forcing anyone to get the gear, there are alternatives to the SC weapons/gear and RvR sets. Such as epic quests and ruin gear. Gear already drops from all areas of the game.