Dear ZOS: Please give us a $hortcut for transmute

pshift

You give us so many cool sets to try, but it takes soooo long to grind enough transmute for a full set. I really hate the transmute system. I don't care how many people whine, please let us buy trait changes with crowns. I will pay you a lot of money to not have to grind these damned transmute stones. It really hinders our ability to try out new things.

ayu_fever

i am not for it or against this really.
BUT if i could buy transmute crystals for crowns i so totally would!!!

something like this triggers some players into it being “pay to win” but i sont see it that way.
you already farmed the items you want.
no shortcuts there.
being able to buy transmute crystals with crowns is a convenience and has no negative effect on the game.

however grinding out stones does keep people playing, and thats always a good thing.

a few alternatives:
add transmute crystals to daily rewards. maybe a final reward be 50 or 100.
10% decrease in cost of transmute for eso+ subscribers.

i love playing the game and enjoy the grind but sometimes i wish i could just reroll some traits when i wanted to.

RoyalPink06

It would be nice to also get some crystals occasionally from the daily login rewards, or maybe a crown store exclusive for ESO plus subs.

I hate how long it takes to get enough crystals and then the meta changes and you have to start over. It’s exhausting and honestly is one of the reasons I unsubbed and gave up on the trials game.

sedi

Just make it so the pledges actually drop more then a couple on a regular basis. Maybe 10-15 every so often would be nice.

Waffennacht

I would just like an increase in amount the geodes drop.

Especially with the jewelry traits required to be transmuted to.

Katahdin

Just increase the damn drop rate already. The 1-4 crystals per daily in PvE is beyond rediculous.
No need to give them ideas to charge money for something that should be able to be done in the game.

All we do is grind to get to where we want or are required to be to play end game.
Grind for gear, grind for upgrade mats, grind for transumute stones.
Have you noticed that divines is rarer than unicorns in all the popular sets?
Grind, grind, grind.
It literally takes MONTHS if you actually have a job and a life and cant play more than a couple of hours a day.
We dont want to grind so much to play, we WANT TO PLAY.

therift

And for contrast purposes, PvP players delete transmute geodes because we've already transmuted dozens of items, have uncracked geodes stacked on mules, and are perpetually at the crystal cap.

The system is heavily biased towards PvP play, but most players are PvE. It doesn't make sense.

Caligamy_ESO

The shortcut is Rewards of the Worthy emails in PVP, I believe when these first came out you could open one rewards of the worth email on each toon you have for the first daily bonus on each one? Dunno if it ever got changed but it seemed awfully exploity at the time.

Tholian1

therift wrote: »

And for contrast purposes, PvP players delete transmute geodes because we've already transmuted dozens of items, have uncracked geodes stacked on mules, and are perpetually at the crystal cap.

The system is heavily biased towards PvP play, but most players are PvE. It doesn't make sense.

It makes sense if they are trying to encourage more PvP participation. The end of campaign reward is generous with the crystals, but the rewards of the worthy only gives me 4 crystals. Bad rng I guess.

AlnilamE

therift wrote: »

And for contrast purposes, PvP players delete transmute geodes because we've already transmuted dozens of items, have uncracked geodes stacked on mules, and are perpetually at the crystal cap.

The system is heavily biased towards PvP play, but most players are PvE. It doesn't make sense.

It makes sense because the idea is that PvP players don't like to spend a lot of time in PvP to get the items in the perfect traits, whereas the PvE players are playing PvE anyway, so have a better chance of getting the right pieces without needing transmute stones.

therift

Tholian1 wrote: »

therift wrote: »

And for contrast purposes, PvP players delete transmute geodes because we've already transmuted dozens of items, have uncracked geodes stacked on mules, and are perpetually at the crystal cap.

The system is heavily biased towards PvP play, but most players are PvE. It doesn't make sense.

It makes sense if they are trying to encourage more PvP participation. The end of campaign reward is generous with the crystals, but the rewards of the worthy only gives me 4 crystals. Bad rng I guess.

AlnilamE wrote: »

therift wrote: »

And for contrast purposes, PvP players delete transmute geodes because we've already transmuted dozens of items, have uncracked geodes stacked on mules, and are perpetually at the crystal cap.

The system is heavily biased towards PvP play, but most players are PvE. It doesn't make sense.

It makes sense because the idea is that PvP players don't like to spend a lot of time in PvP to get the items in the perfect traits, whereas the PvE players are playing PvE anyway, so have a better chance of getting the right pieces without needing transmute stones.

I agree with you, but I believe it is too heavily weighted towards PvP play.

I play all game content. I quit counting the number of items I transmuted at 100 or so. I've been at 190+ crystals for weeks, and I have another 300 - 400 crystals waiting on mules.

Granted, most of my gear transmutations were done when geodes were one per character per day, but between Shor and Vivec, a few hours a week, I'm still picking up 25 - 50 crystals per week.

I think the PvE rewards should be buffed slightly.