Transmute Crystal Collection Event

ExhumedToConsume

With all these drastic changes being made every month to month and a half, I am always out of transmute crystals. I don't even have enough to finish the builds I want to do now, which could become obsolete in a month for the next patch. I think it is only fair to have an event where we can get more geodes for doing quests, or the daily rewards geodes give double crystals, due to all the huge changes that keep being made.

It is getting tiring going through transmute crystals and gold mats with all these drastic changes being made, in a game that is 5 years old.

Casterial

ExhumedToConsume wrote: »

With all these drastic changes being made every month to month and a half, I am always out of transmute crystals. I don't even have enough to finish the builds I want to do now, which could become obsolete in a month for the next patch. I think it is only fair to have an event where we can get more geodes for doing quests, or the daily rewards geodes give double crystals, due to all the huge changes that keep being made.

It is getting tiring going through transmute crystals and gold mats with all these drastic changes being made, in a game that is 5 years old.

I completely agree.
Having the ability to possible have transmute events either on weekends, or bi weekly, or even monthly would definitely make these drastic changes less of a headache. The reason I barely want to change builds now is how hard transmute has become. It's about 200-250/ month which is 5-6 changes.


Interesting idea, +1

ShadowKyuubi

This is why I only keep one set of armor for magicka and stamina toons...sure it is annoying to pass it around. But I don't have to farm crystals for every character now.

Casterial

ShadowKyuubi wrote: »

This is why I only keep one set of armor for magicka and stamina toons...sure it is annoying to pass it around. But I don't have to farm crystals for every character now.

But being stagnant isn't fun. And this is just not useful. Like ZOS knows they're limiting players to retain them for the month, but from example of working on games adding a friction point resulted in churn and less energy from that player.

I do think an event would help, another thing would be allow us to hold 400 if subbed, 200 if not. So we don't just hold bags in our inventory/mail for years.

RodneyRegis

Yes, transmutes are ridiculous at the moment. I get that they are rebalancing, and it seems they are doing it gradually patch by patch to get where they want. This means they are not completely changing the game so it's unrecognisable in one go. But in the meantime every couple of months everything needs to be changed and refarmed. Perhaps drop charge for transmute to 20 until they've finished rebalancing.

RodneyRegis

Oh and yes, the cap is just silly. Why have a cap at all any more?

Casterial

RodneyRegis wrote: »

Oh and yes, the cap is just silly. Why have a cap at all any more?

True

FrancisCrawford

ShadowKyuubi wrote: »

This is why I only keep one set of armor for magicka and stamina toons...sure it is annoying to pass it around. But I don't have to farm crystals for every character now.

It's not that bad on the PC with a banker and an add-on like AlphaGear.

Dressing Room would be better, I think, but I've never bothered changing.

Also, why minmax armor? Golding a piece of armor, or upgrading a trait, gives very little advantage. I've transmuted a lot of weapons, and golded a lot more than those. I mturned three rings for a thief/stealth build Swift. But otherwise I generally haven't bothered transmuting, and in some of those cases I wouldn't have bothered if I hadn't had to many transmute crystals to burn.

Runkorko

nope

The_Old_Goat

Drastic changes to player abilities, meta gear sets haven't changed. Nice try though.

Casterial

runkorkoeb17_ESO wrote: »

nope

chainlink01 wrote: »

Drastic changes to player abilities, meta gear sets haven't changed. Nice try though.

Anyone being against this hasn't really realized with class and skill changes our gear must change to accommodate. While meta sets haven't changed, to be a good build you may need to accommodate to new sets.

This is also related in PVE. This event is PVE and PVP not just PVP.

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

ShadowKyuubi wrote: »

This is why I only keep one set of armor for magicka and stamina toons...sure it is annoying to pass it around. But I don't have to farm crystals for every character now.

It's not that bad on the PC with a banker and an add-on like AlphaGear.

Dressing Room would be better, I think, but I've never bothered changing.

Also, why minmax armor? Golding a piece of armor, or upgrading a trait, gives very little advantage. I've transmuted a lot of weapons, and golded a lot more than those. I mturned three rings for a thief/stealth build Swift. But otherwise I generally haven't bothered transmuting, and in some of those cases I wouldn't have bothered if I hadn't had to many transmute crystals to burn.

Also, not too sure if you play the game but golding and trait change is HUGE changes.

Dusk_Coven

An issue with this might be that transmute crystals get given out too much in PvP already, so it'd end up being a make-nirncrux-materials weekend.
Which would probably crash the nirncrux market, so for some people that isn't a bad thing come to think of it.

gamerguy757

10/10

rumple9

Don't chase meta and you will be happy. Secondly julianos / hundings are your friends

Casterial

rumple9 wrote: »

Don't chase meta and you will be happy. Secondly julianos / hundings are your friends

Not related to topic at all.



Transmutes are limited, and it slows down build changes. You can't change your build quick enough due to ZOS nerfing faster than transmutes drop.

ExhumedToConsume

chainlink01 wrote: »

Drastic changes to player abilities, meta gear sets haven't changed. Nice try though.

That is not how this game works. My stam dk is designed to where he has just enough dmg to kill people, and be tanky right now. Now with my CLASS skills doing a whole lot less dmg next patch, I will probably have to drop a tanky set for a DPS, and change his whole playstyle up, which I would rather not do. He is my only tanky-pvper.

The_Old_Goat

ExhumedToConsume, my comment was more towards the pve end of things but you're right pvp setups are a constantly evolving thing. I find the drastic overall nerfing of everything kind of disgusting but far worse are the removal of stuns, and I play a magdk most of the time in pvp so stonefist was my bread and butter simply because of the range. I play in 5 light, 2 heavy and am thinking i might have to go 5 heavy after the next update. As for the discussion about transmutation stones, I have 8 characters that I play in 30 day campaigns, half in CP for DC and half in non CP for AD and while it sucks to have to wait 30 days between getting them, it's possible to handle a few changes(for me before they change all over again.I don't however run meta sets, I run what I like which is often a compromise for resources rather than doubling down on offensive sets.

Recent

They want to break us and it obviously is working....not sure what their long term goal is by frustrating so many of their loyal, long term customers but it's not going to end pretty for them when they lose loads of their paying customers.

Jaimeh

Agreed, I play with a lot of characters, and with the constant meta shift I'm always running out of crystals. Removing the cap and getting them from RoTW per character per day would be great.

JamieAubrey

HA

I just finished transmuting 800 stones worth of s***, I don't need no event to get more to do the same ( given I partake )

ayu_fever

put transmutation crystals in the crown store.
it is wayyyyy overdue!

50 crystals for 3000 crowns is absolutely an amazing price.
i would buy lots of them!

i would rather pay than to have to do pvp and get crystals.
worth every penny!!!!!!!

dont you want my money zos??????

Cadbury

ayu_fever wrote: »

put transmutation crystals in the crown store.
it is wayyyyy overdue!

50 crystals for 3000 crowns is absolutely an amazing price.
i would buy lots of them!

The scary part is that I'm sure alot of players would love this.

SirDopey

RodneyRegis wrote: »

Yes, transmutes are ridiculous at the moment. I get that they are rebalancing, and it seems they are doing it gradually patch by patch to get where they want. This means they are not completely changing the game so it's unrecognisable in one go. But in the meantime every couple of months everything needs to be changed and refarmed. Perhaps drop charge for transmute to 20 until they've finished rebalancing.

LOL are you for real, they literally buffed things to change the meta in update 23 to turn around and now nerf those very same skills to a point below where they originally were. There's nothing gradual about that

Michae

Just curious. How much do you use, let's say, weekly? I'm on cap right now and have quite a few uncracked geodes on my alts. Do you change your gear every week?

ArenGesus

Oh boy, here we go. Crown store crystals incoming.

But yeah, if we're going to be rebuilding every 3 months, something that provides more would be welcome, so long as it's not an option that requires RL money.

ExhumedToConsume

Michae wrote: »

Just curious. How much do you use, let's say, weekly? I'm on cap right now and have quite a few uncracked geodes on my alts. Do you change your gear every week?

I don't change weekly, but I am still trying to finish updating five builds after U23. I maybe go into cyrodiil 3-4 times a week on my main, and an alt.

Eldartar

RodneyRegis wrote: »

Oh and yes, the cap is just silly. Why have a cap at all any more?

This. come on ZoS End the Cap!

deviousthevile

+1 OP, I am sick and tired of running 13 toons every campaign to get the most transmute crystals possible. Being able to store more would be phenomenal in the effort to conserve bank space. OR make them bankable like writ vouchers. Too many times do I open RotW on the toon that gets them, only to play the swapping game when it comes time to piece 50 together to xmute something

rotaugen454

I foresee “transmute tokens” arriving in the Crown Store in the near future. It will be called a “convenience”.