Dead on arrival when...

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Top gear is supposed to be rare and limited in availability because of how nodes will work, so what your server had might not exist on other servers, but there might be a chance that it counters whatever gear they do have. And now you've pretty much paid your way to more power.

I'm sure they'll implement transfers sooner or later because I'm more than sure that people will whine and complain about it the whole time, but I do hope they don't implement it.

I think for me it'll be dead on arrival for a picky reason.

If most of what we're moving around and using to make gold are 'Hunting Certificates' and not actual crafting materials.

It just doesn't work for me, I think. I tolerate it, but I never like the games that work like this. Even today I was just blown away by rethinking just how many items BDO contains that are part of their trading system and bartering systems and are put into the game files and yet not a single one of them drops from any mob anywhere even randomly.

Not their style, I guess. I'm just sick of 'trash loot' and artificial systems, and I keep expecting MMOs to just not do this, but it seems to keep going.

Azherae wrote: »

If most of what we're moving around and using to make gold are 'Hunting Certificates' and not actual crafting materials.

I think SWG was good about this and L2 was too, so I definitely hope they combine those two and make a good system. Definitely hate trash drops. Especially cause they usually ruin owpvp for spots, because those spots become kinda useless due to "gold" being farmable anywhere you want.

NiKr wrote: »

Azherae wrote: »

If most of what we're moving around and using to make gold are 'Hunting Certificates' and not actual crafting materials.

I think SWG was good about this and L2 was too, so I definitely hope they combine those two and make a good system. Definitely hate trash drops. Especially cause they usually ruin owpvp for spots, because those spots become kinda useless due to "gold" being farmable anywhere you want.

Yeah I had a rage moment today when I thought about it. Why don't I ever end up getting proper PvP in BDO? Because the only place anyone wants to be is the top earning areas, and it isn't in the best interest of even players who are at the same 'rotation' in the lower areas to fight each other.

But that's why that game has Season Servers, so whatever, I guess.

I guess their jank economy would collapse if something in the world other than a boss were to drop an Emerald or something.

Azherae wrote: »

I guess their jank economy would collapse if something in the world other than a boss were to drop an Emerald or something.

Yeah, to me, the beauty of L2's loot tables came from mobs dropping the same stuff as bosses (except for epic jewelry), but at lower rates. And with the game being centered around a ton of grind, you'd get your crafting mats sooner or later (and super rare full drops, which were just pure dopamine straight into the brain). And bosses would just speed up the process a bit.

But later on it all devolved into instanced content with unique drops as well I still blame WoW for its insane success, which made pretty much every damn exec out there tell their devs "do the same thing or you're not getting any money".