Should trial gear drop logic evolve or stay or other?

AnduinTryggva

To complete the stickerboard one has to run several times the same trial.

Currently armor drop in chests and all bosses except the final boss who gives jewelry and weapons ifc. Once a week one has an additional chance of weapon and jewelry drop in the weekly reward.

While normal gear drops in chests irrespective of difficulty level (normal or veteran), perfected drops for veteran difficulty in bosses but not in chests.

Chests can contain any gear, be it armor, jewelry or weapon.

I personally think how loot works in normal difficulty is just perfect. The stickerboard gets filled fast enough but still requires several runs to complete which gives time to learn some of the basic mechanics that will help you during veteran runs. It is fast because not only due to the normal difficulty bosses and mobs fall quicker but also because chests can drop jewelry and weapons as standard gear.

I am a bit uncertain for the veteran loot mode. It makes it really a grind to complete the stickerboard for perfected as only the last boss can drop it or with some chance in the weekly reward box.

I don't have a huge grudge here as I think this incitement to re-run the same trial is good from a community perspective so that trials are still run often enough for some newer players get a decent chance to run these trials. It also helps to learn the sometimes really challenging mechanics very well enough.

At the same time it takes a really long time to complete the sticker board.

If we leave out the possibility of trading within the group (which is also quite difficult with weapons and jewelry) you'd need roughly 60 runs to complete the stickerboard. As a consequence I probably have not one sole stickerboard completed for perfected quality. I usually stop when I have the gear I need for my build and I accept the higher transmute costs for reconstruction as it is far easier to farm transmute stones than to complete the stickerboard on perfected quality.

I on my side think if we get a small chance (maybe sort of 10-15%) to have perfected gear (armor, jewelry and weapon) dropping in chests at veteran difficulty could be a decent compromise to push a bit the completion of stickerboard for perfected gear without rushing thru it. Just a small nudge towards completing it a tad faster.