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.