TheNuminous1 wrote: »Necrotech_Master wrote: »TheNuminous1 wrote: »TheNuminous1 wrote: »SteveCampsOut wrote: »TheNuminous1 wrote: »Honestly, you are all reallyyyyy not understanding the whole concept of a slow gameplay mechanic.
Spellcra...Scribing
Was added as something to do to prolong gameplay over the course of months and years. Not weeks and days.
Your not ment to try every spell right away. Or even soon.
It's designed to keep you invested long term. Like research on crafting. And horse mounts.
It's not a one and done.
Ink is RARE. That's FINEEEE.
The new chapter has not even been out a whole month yet on console.
Me personally I am very excited to have something to do that isn't finished in a week.
Something that extends the life of my game.
People have said it already you can buy ink if your impatient.
But I can think of nothing more lore friendly to the learning of Magic and spell then a little bit of patience.
I agree with your content, but not your clickbaity title. Not EVERYONE is upset. Clearly. I'm certainly not. You don't seem to be.
Right Right next time I'll pick a title people don't want to click on. Also most ppl have disagreed in this thread with me.
I still stand by what I think.
Someone complained something about getting an ink in an hour. If your able to farm enough ink to scribe a spell in a day or two that's plenty fast.
Everyone is wanting to try out a bunch of spells all at once and that's just nor the way the system was intended.
Do you think it’s right that some players are getting 10+ ink an hour (someone even boasted about getting 20 in an hour once), while other players who are also farming are consistently getting one or two ink per hour max, if that? Do you think it’s right that there are some players who aren’t farming at all who still have significantly more ink than players who are farming?
The point is that people who want to engage with scribing either have to spend an extraordinary amount of time grinding for a paltry amount of ink, or they have to pay other players (who are consistently much luckier than them) 20k+ gold per ink. Scribing is a system with thousands of possible combinations that was designed for build experimentation, and it really doesn’t make sense to limit its use this severely. It’s also frustrating that there’s such a disparity between players in terms of ease of acquiring ink.
Yes I think it's right. This is one long winded way to say you don't like RNG
RNG can be fine, if the drop rates are high enough to matter
nobody enjoys farming something with <1% drop chance
ive currently only gotten 3 ink in the past 2 weeks, thats enough to scribe 1 skill, for 1 toon
i have 11 characters, if i scribe the skill and i dont like it and want to change it, your telling me i now got to wait another 2 weeks to have enough ink for it?
and then what about the other 10 characters i also want to experiment with?
its been ~5 weeks since i scribed anything, mostly because ive barely had enough ink to do anything with, the system is basically dead to me, i have no use for it if i cant scribe anything
and yes, because of my absolute garbage tier drop rate for ink, i feel like im being forced to buy ink from literally any player who claims they can make 10 ink per hour doing the same farming i tried to do
at my current rate of getting ink, its going to take me years to finish the achievement for it, through absolutely no control of my own because my drop rates are such garbage
if im spending an hour doing nothing but harvesting every material node in sight, max speed, plentiful, master gatherer, and can still maybe net 1 ink per hour if im lucky, something is downright wrong, especially when the next person over says they do the exact same thing and get 10 inks an hour
Your STILL not getting it.
It's ment to take years. It's ment to be slow. It's ment to be a time suck and a long term goal.
You are not ment to change the spells constantly or experiment non stop or on repeat right away.
And if you DO want to do that either be lucky or rich.
MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »Look the R in RNG means that some days you lose but some days you win. To have a consistently low return, or high, on time invested isn't random.
That's the problem. I think that drop rate is too low and that the 1-2 an hour is intended. With a dedicated farming build and 2 hours, I should get more than 2 drops. But the drop rate is a separate issue from the bug.
It's the 10-20 is an hour that's the bug. A bug I hope they fix quickly.
MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »Look the R in RNG means that some days you lose but some days you win. To have a consistently low return, or high, on time invested isn't random.
That's the problem. I think that drop rate is too low and that the 1-2 an hour is intended. With a dedicated farming build and 2 hours, I should get more than 2 drops. But the drop rate is a separate issue from the bug.
It's the 10-20 is an hour that's the bug. A bug I hope they fix quickly.
I'm the person who said they get 10-20 per hour. That said, I only get that on good days. On bad days I get 5-10 per day with anywhere from 1-6 hours of farming (I don't farm for more than 2-3 hours most days tho).
I've gotten about 350 ink since the chapter released. I have not been farming with the intent of getting ink. I've been farming for potion mats since all my gold goes to my guild trader and I don't want to pay for potions. Ink is just a byproduct of me trying to farm enough mats to make 800-1000 tripots a week.
[snip]
TO be blunt: I and possibly others are tired of hearing your theory that some players are being deliberately advantaged and are making gold, whilst you are being somehow disadvantaged by the same process.
If you can't invest the time needed, then your only other option is spend the gold and buy the ink that you need.
This is EXACTLY the same for all of us.
TheNuminous1 wrote: »Honestly, you are all reallyyyyy not understanding the whole concept of a slow gameplay mechanic.
Spellcra...Scribing
Was added as something to do to prolong gameplay over the course of months and years. Not weeks and days.
Your not ment to try every spell right away. Or even soon.
It's designed to keep you invested long term. Like research on crafting. And horse mounts.
It's not a one and done.
Ink is RARE. That's FINEEEE.
The new chapter has not even been out a whole month yet on console.
Me personally I am very excited to have something to do that isn't finished in a week.
Something that extends the life of my game.
People have said it already you can buy ink if your impatient.
But I can think of nothing more lore friendly to the learning of Magic and spell then a little bit of patience.
I'm not particularly bothered one way or the other. I've only got three or four toons who have even unlocked the altar. Of those, three have completed the Scholarium quest line (gimme dat skill point), one of those has collected all scripts except Class Mastery (still need a bit more than a dozen scraps to unlock it) and the other two are a few scripts shy of that.
Because my Bank runneth over with junk, I pulled out a small stack of Treasure Maps and picked up 7 or 8 inks today from as-I-went harvesting while running those down (I'm currently a bit under 100 inks), but I've only used maybe six or nine inks and those were because there have been endeavors for using scribed abilities on enemies; Wield Soul isn't an outstanding damage-dealer, so something with a bit more oomph was necessary. Beyond that, I'm reasonably content to just piddle my way through on the other toons. If I get inks, fine, and if I don't, fine. Call me FOMO-resistant, but my toons will all get there eventually.
Ink has not been a problem for me, with me getting anywhere from 8 to 12 a day without actively farming mobs. I have multiple tanks. Done a lot of scribing. i think I have around 50 in sitting in my craft bag still right now.
TheNuminous1 wrote: »Honestly, you are all reallyyyyy not understanding the whole concept of a slow gameplay mechanic.
Spellcra...Scribing
Was added as something to do to prolong gameplay over the course of months and years. Not weeks and days.
Your not ment to try every spell right away. Or even soon.
It's designed to keep you invested long term. Like research on crafting. And horse mounts.
It's not a one and done.
Ink is RARE. That's FINEEEE.
The new chapter has not even been out a whole month yet on console.
Me personally I am very excited to have something to do that isn't finished in a week.
Something that extends the life of my game.
People have said it already you can buy ink if your impatient.
But I can think of nothing more lore friendly to the learning of Magic and spell then a little bit of patience.
I'm happy they seem to have added ink drops to the bosses in the Archive, at least I found one from Tho'at's chest.
Check your corner Leyawiin market if you need ink.
Can you provide some more info, @DoofusMax ? Exactly how much ink have you collected thus far under the Ink Amasser achievement? Also, do you actively farm for ink (or other crafting materials) in starter zones? If so, how long do you typically farm for during each session?
I understand that, the only achievement that really matters to me, is getting 50 for the skill style. If you want them to play with the system and cannot get them yourselves they are cheap.
Necrotech_Master wrote: »to me 20k per ink is not cheap, especially for a consumable item
if i could buy a stack of 200 for 20k (100g per unit), then sure its cheap, but its 20k PER ink right now, which is not cheap (4 mil gold for a stack of 200)
i dont really like paying more than 20-30k per motif chapter, and those are 1 time purchases
Necrotech_Master wrote: »to me 20k per ink is not cheap, especially for a consumable item
if i could buy a stack of 200 for 20k (100g per unit), then sure its cheap, but its 20k PER ink right now, which is not cheap (4 mil gold for a stack of 200)
i dont really like paying more than 20-30k per motif chapter, and those are 1 time purchases
That is your choice and option to make. If you can't spend a few hours a day to do some harvesting to sell mats to buy ink or earn them yourself there isn't much to be said.
Holycannoli wrote: »I farmed the crap out of Stros M’Kai the other night and found 8 ink total. None were on the mobs, it was all from resource nodes.
It’s not sustainable. That’s not even three skills for a single character let alone for alts.
It’s faster right now to create new alts to farm the luminary quests.
1-2 hours I generally can get 8-20 inks depending on my luck and how much effort I put in.
1-2 hours I generally can get 8-20 inks depending on my luck and how much effort I put in.
Read this comments on this post. Properly. Watch Aurielles videos. 8-20 inks for 1-2 hours? You're getting way more than many of us, which is a core issue throughout all of the comments here. The massively unbalanced RNG.
Necrotech_Master wrote: »to me 20k per ink is not cheap, especially for a consumable item
if i could buy a stack of 200 for 20k (100g per unit), then sure its cheap, but its 20k PER ink right now, which is not cheap (4 mil gold for a stack of 200)
i dont really like paying more than 20-30k per motif chapter, and those are 1 time purchases
That is your choice and option to make. If you can't spend a few hours a day to do some harvesting to sell mats to buy ink or earn them yourself there isn't much to be said. Personally I'd like to find more Aetherial Dust, I'd like to get a stack heck 10 for one million gold. People say it is rarer than Potent Nirncrux. Potent Nirncrux is selling for 40-50k a pop.
I understand that, the only achievement that really matters to me, is getting 50 for the skill style. If you want them to play with the system and cannot get them yourselves they are cheap.
TheNuminous1 wrote: »1-2 hours I generally can get 8-20 inks depending on my luck and how much effort I put in.
Read this comments on this post. Properly. Watch Aurielles videos. 8-20 inks for 1-2 hours? You're getting way more than many of us, which is a core issue throughout all of the comments here. The massively unbalanced RNG.
R A N D O M. what about that are you not understanding. Truly. Genuinely.
This whole game for TEN YEARS has made me battle RANDOM.
Before transmute crystals and curated drops do you know how hard a sharpened inferno staff of spellweave was to get? How many times I farmed city of ash AND NEVER GOT IT.
If people are seriously complaining about ink drops then they don't remember the dark times.
If your all so inpatient BUY it.
But seriously. Random is random is random. Some people are lucky some people are not.
This is the way of the universe and the game just emulated that on a small scale.
Pray harder to rnjeesus cause it's just random fate that your not getting ink.
And for reference I have only gotten ONE ink to drop organically for me. Since the dlc came out.
And I realllyyy want to use the new system.
But I'm patient.
TheNuminous1 wrote: »1-2 hours I generally can get 8-20 inks depending on my luck and how much effort I put in.
Read this comments on this post. Properly. Watch Aurielles videos. 8-20 inks for 1-2 hours? You're getting way more than many of us, which is a core issue throughout all of the comments here. The massively unbalanced RNG.
R A N D O M. what about that are you not understanding. Truly. Genuinely.
This whole game for TEN YEARS has made me battle RANDOM.
Before transmute crystals and curated drops do you know how hard a sharpened inferno staff of spellweave was to get? How many times I farmed city of ash AND NEVER GOT IT.
If people are seriously complaining about ink drops then they don't remember the dark times.
If your all so inpatient BUY it.
But seriously. Random is random is random. Some people are lucky some people are not.
This is the way of the universe and the game just emulated that on a small scale.
Pray harder to rnjeesus cause it's just random fate that your not getting ink.
And for reference I have only gotten ONE ink to drop organically for me. Since the dlc came out.
And I realllyyy want to use the new system.
But I'm patient.
Whelp, just found out Ink drops from Side Portals in the Archive... lovely.
Which means they're most likely flagged as "bosses" a la Tho'at chests so it would make sense they share the same loot table.