Like I said in the other thread. I don't like PE but decreasing them after a lot of people abused them to get insane gear is unfair and shouldn't have happened. You shouldn't have the rewards as high in the first place. You ruined the dama economy and now you made it harder for newer players while old ones got insane gear with PEs. Next time think before you implement something so you don't have to nerf it after the damage is done already...
What matters more? How quickly people gear, or keeping one of the last real havens for PW that isn't official going for as long as possible? It's not a hard concept to comprehend
It's because someone decided to bitch about it. I ain't gotta say no names. Seriously though, the main thing here is time investment. GV takes 40 minutes, longer in some cases especially if it fails (and fail rate does go up with afkers at 8th wave...), but it's minimum 40-minute run nonetheless. All for that small reward. And 40 minutes is sometimes all someone has, so if it fails at the end, 40 minutes were wasted. And let's not talk about trials because you need like 5 hours to finish a whole 1-9. Things become not worth doing if the reward for doing it doesn't match the time it takes. Unless you are someone who doesn't have a job, a horse, children, a mortgage, a family, school to attend etc (thank you Bre for the giggle), ain't nobody got time for all that, impeccable time management skills or not. I would like to know why this change happened, and why it was cloaked behind the ambiguous "Perfect Element reward system modified for better balance" in the patch notes. What better balance? People. Come. For. The. PK. It should not take months or even longer to get stats that you are happy with, especially as a new player. If people wanted to take that long to gear up, then they would go back to the official servers, point blank. PE's helped the new players gear up in a timely fashion, but even so, the whole damn thing is luck based. As the OP mentioned, unless you donate, you farm EVERYTHING. For those with less time and can't or won't donate, they're at a gross disadvantage, and they get frustrated, and ultimately give up. So yes, it does matter how quickly people gear, because if they can't get geared well enough to go against someone who is geared to the teeth in a reasonable amount of time, they leave the server.
Unless you are someone who doesn't have a job, a horse, children, a mortgage, a family, school to attend etc (thank you Bre for the giggle), ain't nobody got time for all that, impeccable time management skills or not.
Time investment is a very real argument, and one that I have repeatedly brought up on a consistent basis in my other thread. I asked for Trials to be significantly reduced in terms of time-investment and in return, reduce the amount of PE's gained from it. However, let me just get something off my chest:You all are spoiled, rotten, brats. Yes, I said that, yes, I refered to all of you who are so ridiculously butthurt over a minor decrease in PE gain and are acting like complete children.Do you not know where we came from? Damascenes, and donations. That was the old system, a perfectly working system, a perfectly working system that literally nobody complained about. A perfectly working system that balanced donations and the in-game market flawlessly and promoted the economic rivalry that lead to the thriving in-game market we saw only months ago.Perfect Element is a NEW system that you all just got used to, and not you're acting like it's the end of the world because you're making SLIGHTLY less? Utterly ridiculous. The only reason that anyone in their right mind would complain about making slightly less PE is because they now have to do SLIGHTLY more work in order to obtain the ridiculously disgusting stats such as -9 channeling on each piece of their gear. How dare you all demonize myself and others that dislike EPW turning into an instant-geared wasteland like it's predecessors. Nobody was quitting the game over gears being too hard, that's complete bullshit, and with how easy things are to obtain now (Even Tokens mostly) there is no problem with reducing the amount of PE gained and promoting the damascene market from being risen up from the ashes. "We come for the PK", that's true, but that's not true for the entire community. other server was "made for the PK". Utter failure, they give free EVERYTHING and the server still manages to die, EVEN WHEN IT WASN'T CRASHING! Same for Phoenix, Storm, Vendetta.If you don't have anything to work towards because you're all bathing in the best of the best gears, there is no initiative to donate, there's no initiative to do PvE, there's no initiative to even log other than when there's once a day mass PK, which is an all too familiar reality for large-guild players because they already have enough gear to tank 10 players at once. It's too late to go back and change the horrible decision which was adding PE in the first place, and it's too late to fix the gigantic gear gap between Tyrant/Apollumi players and the rest of the community, but out of the ashes of this failure we can redeem ourselves as a server and change this server for the better. We can go back to our roots, while still keeping the new system, keep the donations flowing, and continue down the path of server stability.This patch will without a doubt bring new players here, and although PE is useful to get people easily started up, It's apparent that it only takes 1 trials (6 hours) and they'll be able to be full R8 with not completely trash gear on day 1. There's no need to hand out -9 gear for AFKing for 6 hours straight, that's just despicable. What I would say though is that Trials time of completion should have been SIGNIFICANTLY lowered before touching the amount of rewards given, however, I still don't really care because everyone is tabbed out during Trials anyways and it's not like people deserve 120+ rerolls for doing absolutely nothing. Sorry not sorry. If I was the developer here instead of just nerfing Trials I would have boosted them so significantly that people were actually required to participate or they would fail, so that then we would have an almost PWI tier Trial experience where you work hard for the hard earned reward, not for sitting on your ass and playing a different game.
Doesn't matter what amount of time you spend dude, you can basically afk GV & Trial so I get free P.E for watching youtube (i just stay at my pc and tab out and in every once in a while unless im leading the pt) there's nothing to bitch about in any circumstance
