Why is there still time-gated rng in the game?

nublife01

The undaunted coffers for the monster set shoulder pieces is most definitely the poorest gear looting system in your entire game. It is not only time-gated but also of a high level of rng whether you spend 5 keys on a 16% chance drop or 1 key on each ridiculously low % chance drop. Even world of warcraft is getting rid of their time gated rng because it makes players not want to continue playing their game. It is a terrible mechanic and does the opposite of intended being making players want to quit the game. I think about just about anyone who plays this game would rather farm 10 keys to get a 100% chance at the monster set shoulder armor they want rather than leaving it up to chance over and over again. You should get rid of this absolute garbage of a looting system. I am extremely surprised some fix or change to this was introduced on the PTS.

Please second this if you agree. I know everyone agrees. We just need to make it blatantly obvious to ZOS that they need to get rid of this feature asap.

Varana

How long have you been playing for? This current system is progress.
That "1 key on each ridiculously low % chance drop" was the only way available until just a few patches ago.

(What exactly is "time-gated" about the coffers?)

Major_Lag

Varana wrote: »

How long have you been playing for? This current system is progress.

^ This ^

OP, if you are complaining about the current system, you should have seen the atrocity that was the old system.
The way it works now is a colossal improvement, since you get the option of a 16% chance drop for 5 keys instead of a <1% chance drop for 1 key.

Varana wrote: »

(What exactly is "time-gated" about the coffers?)

Acquiring the keys.
There are only so many keys that you can earn in a single day, even if you are doing the pledges on multiple characters. Not to mention the amount of time it takes to actually run the dungeons (and wait in the queues beforehand!).
And if you are very unlucky, it can take several dozen keys to get the drop you want in the correct weight.

Milli_Rabbit

If we want to talk about RNG, let's talk about the soul crushing experience that is vMA...

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Back in my day, monster set shoulder were not garenteed drop from the undauted chest, also not all key were equal, some were bronze, others silver and there were even gold one! The chest too were unequal. One day the divine blessed us with 3 gardians who separated the 3 chest between them granting us 100% drop chance on at least 1 shoulder piece. Nowaday the 3 chest are even more diluted as the got separated in smaller coffer

nublife01

Yea but VMA you can spam it over and over again and if youre good it's pretty quick. The time gate is that you can only get up to 6 keys a day which means one coffer chest for a 1/6th chance at the armor you need ~16% chance per day. If you know about how RNG works that doesn't help. And I've played this game since beta lmao. But stating that the fact that this current time gated RNG system is much better than the previous excuses the fact that it's a terrible system is a straw man argument. The current system is absolutely ridiculous and should have its RNG and/or time gate removed. Like I have no idea why you guys are defending this whatsoever instead of also pressing for the full removal and replacement it.

edit: I guess your uses of a straw man argument somewhat make sense or rather aligns well with your current defense of a garbage in game looting system.

MashmalloMan

Wrong section. Nothing to do with PTS.

nublife01

i specified its association with the PTS in my first comment