Infinite Archive is an unrewarding and monotonous slog.

StarOfElyon · September 22

I tried to give this a chance but the lack of rewards for enduring the boring waves of mobs just irritated the crap out of me. Opening up chests to get some overland gear that I could easily farm if I wanted to or that I already have is not worth the effort in the archive AT ALL. It should at least be loaded up with fortunes (edit: every chest should drop a piece of a class set). The fact that completing a bonus area in the unknown portals doesn't guarantee a lead drop adds insult to injury. So it basically stacks RNG on top of RNG. I have a life to live and I can't afford to sit on my butt for endless hours cutting down waves of boring mobs only to get screwed by RNG.

XSTRONG · September 22

Do you know there is 2 npc vendors in IA?

There if you dont want rng you can buy Style pages, Class sets, leads etc.

Playing Arc 1 and 2 with daily quest gives you around 5000 Archival Fortunes.

StarOfElyon · September 22

XSTRONG wrote: »

Do you know there is 2 npc vendors in IA?

There if you dont want rng you can buy Style pages, Class sets, leads etc.

Playing Arc 1 and 2 with daily quest gives you around 5000 Archival Fortunes.

Yeah and I have to grind for my leads still with RNG on top of RNG. There's no guarantee the lead I want is in the vendor too btw. Maybe that's fun for you but it's not for me.

Edit: I spent all day and must've grinded 24k fortunes. Was able to buy two style pages. Unfortunately I got the weapons, not the armor styles. Didn't get anymore torc leads. What a monotonous pain in the butt.

XSTRONG · September 23

StarOfElyon wrote: »

XSTRONG wrote: »

Do you know there is 2 npc vendors in IA?

There if you dont want rng you can buy Style pages, Class sets, leads etc.

Playing Arc 1 and 2 with daily quest gives you around 5000 Archival Fortunes.

Yeah and I have to grind for my leads still with RNG on top of RNG. There's no guarantee the lead I want is in the vendor too btw. Maybe that's fun for you but it's not for me.

Edit: I spent all day and must've grinded 24k fortunes. Was able to buy two style pages. Unfortunately I got the weapons, not the armor styles. Didn't get anymore torc leads. What a monotonous pain in the butt.

Im not in IA to grind for leads and I have never bought a lead in IA but it feels like it drop leads very often and I scry some of them.

How would you like to obtain the leads your after?

StarOfElyon · September 23

XSTRONG wrote: »

StarOfElyon wrote: »

XSTRONG wrote: »

Do you know there is 2 npc vendors in IA?

There if you dont want rng you can buy Style pages, Class sets, leads etc.

Playing Arc 1 and 2 with daily quest gives you around 5000 Archival Fortunes.

Yeah and I have to grind for my leads still with RNG on top of RNG. There's no guarantee the lead I want is in the vendor too btw. Maybe that's fun for you but it's not for me.

Edit: I spent all day and must've grinded 24k fortunes. Was able to buy two style pages. Unfortunately I got the weapons, not the armor styles. Didn't get anymore torc leads. What a monotonous pain in the butt.

Im not in IA to grind for leads and I have never bought a lead in IA but it feels like it drop leads very often and I scry some of them.

How would you like to obtain the leads your after?

I would like the torc leads to actually drop more than they do now. That's it.

Pelanora · September 23

Worst archives. Has zos seen the bibliotheque nationale?

Then again herma-mora IS a power hungry pyscho why would he have any aesthetics

notyuu · September 24

XSTRONG wrote: »

Do you know there is 2 npc vendors in IA?

There if you dont want rng you can buy Style pages, Class sets, leads etc.

Playing Arc 1 and 2 with daily quest gives you around 5000 Archival Fortunes.

Actually there's 3 vendors, ones just off to the far side of the room and sells random leads, parts, furnishings, nap, ect

The other two sell gear, furnishings, gold, usual stuff

StarOfElyon · September 29

PLEASE increase the amount of Fortunes gained. Either that or reduce the prices of the style pages. It's INSANE right now. I HATE this grind. It's not fun at all. And where are the Torc leads at?????

MidniteOwl1913 · October 31

Yeah IA is a boring time sink with poor rewards. I only do it as a last resort when there are no better endeavors for me.

And I always feel it is a waste of time and I never do more than the first arc. And pass on the side games which are more boring and annoying than IA itself.

o_Primate_o · November 25

I was 30% excited when I thought it would be fight a bunch of adds up to boss fight, but instead I got six waves of adds and two minis then boss. Why not put three bosses, all from same dungeon, in same run and require all to be killed in same run to clear the arc?

ellmarie · November 25

I haven't been and IA fan myself. I haven't also seen the rewards. I just found out today what I needed to do to get the furnishing, Infinite Archive Index, Replica. Defeat 100 enemies just in the first arc? So I guess, I'll just have to grind that little part over and over? And then to have to buy it for 25,000 Archival Fortunes.

Playnice · December 23

The rewards in Infinite Archive do improve as you progress through the higher Arcs. However, the lack of a proper save system makes it difficult to capitalize on those rewards. Right now, players are stuck with two options:

1. Dedicate several uninterrupted hours to complete a high Arc run for the better rewards.
2. Grind lower Arcs instead, settling for overland gear and smaller amounts of Archival Fortunes.

This issue could be easily addressed by implementing a save feature for higher Arcs. With the ability to save and resume progress, players wouldn’t need to carve out huge blocks of time to enjoy the most rewarding content. They could tackle higher Arcs at their own pace, pausing for real-life commitments like meals, family, or work, and then picking up where they left off. This approach wouldn’t compromise the difficulty of the higher Arcs but would make them much more accessible and player-friendly. The takeaway here is- more players accessing harder content and enjoying the better rewards is good for the game.

MidniteOwl1913 · December 23

Playnice wrote: »

The rewards in Infinite Archive do improve as you progress through the higher Arcs. However, the lack of a proper save system makes it difficult to capitalize on those rewards. Right now, players are stuck with two options:

1. Dedicate several uninterrupted hours to complete a high Arc run for the better rewards.
2. Grind lower Arcs instead, settling for overland gear and smaller amounts of Archival Fortunes.

This issue could be easily addressed by implementing a save feature for higher Arcs. With the ability to save and resume progress, players wouldn’t need to carve out huge blocks of time to enjoy the most rewarding content. They could tackle higher Arcs at their own pace, pausing for real-life commitments like meals, family, or work, and then picking up where they left off. This approach wouldn’t compromise the difficulty of the higher Arcs but would make them much more accessible and player-friendly. The takeaway here is- more players accessing harder content and enjoying the better rewards is good for the game.

Yeah, players have been asking for a save function since the very beginning. My guess is that it proved to much of a time challenge for the resources assigned to it.