I have been running the veteran dungeons for the last few months at V14 with several other players from my guild. We have all gotten sick of the lack of good loot drops from both the dungeon itself and the gold key treasure chest.
First let’s talk about the dungeon. There are a lot of good armor sets in the game, but unfortunately they are all stuck “except DSA” at a veteran level twelve and below. Why not let them drop in veteran dungeons and match the veteran rank of the group “i.e. veteran rank 14”? They could be bound to the player for all I care, I would just like to see gear drop in a veteran dungeon a player could actually use.
Next, the Undaunted Weaver, Infiltrator and Bastion sets. Am I missing something here? If I am please inform me, but as far as I can tell the set bonuses for these sets are worthless for the type of armor they are on. I don’t see any reason to replace them with Magnus' Gift, Hist Bark or Hunding’s Rage witch are very easily crafted by a player. I know that there are some players that these sets might mesh with, but please make some new armor sets with better set bonuses to drop in the chests.
Last, the only time a player is happy about the loot that he/she receives in a gold key chest is when they get the shoulders that they want, in the armor type they want “light, medium, heavy” with a good armor trait “it would be nice to let us change the armor trait through crafting”.
The player will typically receive about 69 gold, a purple item that they won’t use “only worth about 29 gold” and a soul gem “though they probably lost one or two of those in the dungeon through death or rezing people”. Where is the reward?
Suggestions:
-Have a mix of the current armor sets that are V12 and below as a reward and scale them up to the player “i.e. V14 Necropotence, Prayer Shawl, Necromancer, Warlock, Morag Tong, Nightshade, Nightmare, Nikulas”.
-More GOLD!!!
-Chance to drop the Monster Helm for the dungeon you just completed.
-New “and useful” undaunted jewelry sets.
-Undaunted Weapon/Armor enchants “that can’t be crafted by a player”. These should be unique and interesting enchants.
-New Weapon/Armor trait and the stones to craft them, these should only drop from gold key chests.
-Just a few of those white/blue/purple items “that we can steal now with the justice system” in the chest so we can vendor trash them for the gold.
In closing since I hit veteran rank 14 I have not had a single item drop in a veteran dungeon that was useful to me in any way. I have gotten one shoulder that I wanted from the gold key chest out of more than 60 attempts. With the veteran dungeons being the only challenging thing to do for V14 players “for those that don’t have the time to commit to Trials or the Arena on a daily basis, only once a week for me” the reward should at least be worth it. I decided I must say something when I heard a fellow guild member say “at least in WoW I got gear I could use in a dungeon” during last night’s V14 dungeon runs. Please fix the loot system for veteran dungeons.