What is the purpose of motif cooldowns if not to push people to buy the crownbook?

The702Guy

I've been playing about 5 years now and the shift that's been made in the last couple of years towards motifs actually kind of bugs me, but maybe I'm the only one. The 2 main things that bug me are that 1: Motifs don't drop with the content, they get added later a lot of the times, and 2: Motif 20 hour cooldowns. Pre-Greymoor there was no motif cooldown, just a drop chance from completing daily quests. Why was the unnecessary cooldown added? If I want to farm 12 total daily quests to get the motifs faster that's my choice. Even with how it was before you'd only average 2 per day if you did that.

My Solution: Make the first motif of the day a greater drop chance (this helps the more casual players who don't mind only getting 1/day) then after that go back to the normal drop rate it was before until the next day, not this current one where after 1 motif drops your chances of getting another before the cooldown are insanely low.

Sidenote: I'm sure this will never get done because it would probably require an unnecessary amount of work, but I would love to see 20 hour cooldowns removed entirely and all just go to 1 daily reset time.

Kiralyn2000

What's the purpose?

Same as any other timegate in an MMO (which have been endemic to the genre since looooong before cash shops) - to make people need to log in & play longer.


edit: of course, the more important thing is from the other thread:

Finn has confirmed this is a bug on his twitter.

Kwoung

The702Guy wrote: »

Sidenote: I'm sure this will never get done because it would probably require an unnecessary amount of work, but I would love to see 20 hour cooldowns removed entirely and all just go to 1 daily reset time.

Your title is the reason... this game is all about driving crown sales. We should feel "honored" that anything drops at this point, even if it is stupidly rare or has a cooldown.

francesinhalover

People like crimson oath so much even though its full of glitches.

That being said, is so ppl keep doing the dung / buy dlc

tonyblack

Without cooldown motif prices drop way too fast. I think it’s a good thing to have one.

PvP_Exploiter

Latest trial motifs are limited to one per day, and you only get the box once per week per character!!!!

faeeichenlaub

Hurts. I don't run much content, mostly pvp player, but I sure love developing looks in the outfit system and have spent millions in gold at guild traders to get them as a reward to those who've made the efforts to earn them.

The enforced scarcity, and new system of increasing chance of giving you something other than what you already got. Is just driving up motif costs, and hurting those trying to profit from the most desirable chapter books. Crimson Oath chest for example.

Nogawd

Are the crimson oath motifs on a cooldown?

Dagoth_Rac

Nogawd wrote: »

Are the crimson oath motifs on a cooldown?

Yes, but confirmed by a dev as a bug and will be fixed.

Blinx

ever since the introduction of CP version 2 seems to me everything is on a cool down, or stealth nerfed to some degree, at least imo as compared to before

Eliran

Probably because too many kids like the "chest" piece on female chars.

EZ Crowns for zos.