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ShutUpitsRed wrote: »

This community is so weird about Oakensoul. I genuinely don't understand why the naysayers don't get it: it's not about meta, it's not about "being better," it's not about efficiency, it's about having fun! Even accessibility aside, you can throw on Oakensoul and LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE and have a workable build that will get you through normal content.

The whole comment was great but I think this summarises the yay-sayer side quite nicely.

And we don't know what everyone is going through. Not only the mobility, or ease of use. But there could be other reasons.

Someone who finished work, got home, cooked dinner, put the kids to sleep and now has 2 hours... nay, little Johnny took a bit longer to go to sleep, so the next 1h 45 minutes is game time. I wouldn't want to experiment with something new there. I just want to do my daily crafting and a random dungeon or two and then sleep.

Or there's safety in familiarity. Mobility issues are not the only issues a person can have. Some people just can't handle big changes, especially if they feel they are coerced to do so.

Sure, you could slap on the PO for solo, add a couple of passive buffs on the back bar, and then switch to Rakkhat if grouping with other people. Not everyone want to do that, especially when you would need to get Empower elsewhere.

By now pretty much everyone understands Oakensoul can't compete in damage with other mythics but I would guess that is not a factor for those who use exclusively Oakensoul builds. Sure the damage ceiling is lower but it's also easier to reach it.

Koshka wrote: »

I personally just don't like how it is being advertized to new players as this awesome thing, almost like a cheat code to the game. And they just beeline to Oakensoul, without even looking into other options that maybe could've worked better for them (even in terms of accessibility, like the aforementioned pale order ring).

Pale Order is liked by experienced players with high DPS, but it isn't that accessible for newer players. It only provides healing based on a percentage of your DPS, which necessitates a high enough DPS, and requires the player not to be CC'ed. Oakensoul also has a suite of other advantages.

Also, I think that when you're less experienced or struggling, having some crutches is useful while you're getting used to all the different mechanics in the game. I agree, however, that it's important that players always be encouraged to try out different builds that might work better for them in different situations. So even if someone makes a beeline for Oakensoul, if having fun encourages them to stick around enough to try out other things, I think that's a good thing.

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Al_Ex_Andre wrote: »

Yes violet coprinus is not worth it too. I made the mistake to do the violet coprinus for a few months when I was a rookie, and it's for a bunch of months now that I stay way from them, totally.

And y people want to make gold from chitin selling that's why there's so negative there^^, for example the guy who landed his response first, in my thread about chitin, a few months back...u know, I was going to destroy his business

nice toxic response, If someone enjoys economic side of the game they and put efforts into farming and earning money so they are bad people... amazing

yeah let's make game has no rare materials, items, anything in the game, let everything rare just be dropped from first rat you killed, whis would be amazing

Hey now, I was a Chromium farmer and then ZOS nuked my entire industry from orbit.

I was willing to put in the grind for it when most other players were not but in the end ZOS went with the "greater good" approach. Some industrious farmers, like myself, paid the ultimate price so that everyone else could benefit. It is what it is. (Of course, I stopped farming anything after that intensely negative experience, heh).

So if it's good for the goose it's good for gander. I'm down to blow-up all of these rent-seeking niches with targeted economic interventions!

BretonMage wrote: »

But if you farmed them the way you farm other alchemy ingredients, you wouldn't run out.

The problem is I don't farm other alchemy materials because there's no need for me to.

My craft bag contains well over 10k of every ingredient from base game zones (the 3 ingredients for tripots sit at around 7k each). Daily writ rewards, surveys and occasional trips to the shady supplier keep my bags full.

Except that is, for mudcrab chitin and violet coprinus. I recently ran out of mudcrab, which I was shocked about tbf so I had to go farm it, and I have about 400 violet coprinus which I do pick up now when I see one.

My point is that all the other base game materials can be accumulated passively yet the ones we need for writs don't seem to be.

Well, I like that they put on events so I can get tickets quickly and buy what I want. The events are voluntary; if you don't want to participate dont do it ^^