I'm pretty sure that the Mimic stones will be the hottest selling item in your store

It's not pay to win. Changing the trait of an item will NOT make it any better than another item that already had that trait and you got it for free. Will make it correct for a specific build that have issues with the resource manangement.

P2W would be if I pay for my item that it would become let's say 10% better than the similar item you get for free. Let's say I buy a legendary vMA staff that does 10%+ damage than your epic vMA staff - yes, that would be P2W and it would be bad for any game in general, since P2W isn't tolerated . You made it quite clear and I agree.

If you need to read more on P2W and F2P, please read the link below. Thank you for your reply.

http://game-wisdom.com/critical/defining-pay-to-win

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Essentially you would be asking to pay (for a mimic stone) to change your prosperous drop to sharpened which is SUBSTANTIALLY better. Yes, that is P2W.

You're wrong, my sharpened weapon won't be better than your looted one. If it would of been better, that would of be the real p2w.
What you're saying is that you prefer farming it instead of buying it. This is usually said by the 1% of the lucky persons who got a rare item and for sure they don't want others to have it, no matter what ))

Again, I would actually pay for my time enjoying the game not farming the same boss 100 times to get the correct trait on some item that could become useless after some patch.

I prefer to use that 100 x "boss killed" time, going out with my daughter, doing my work that pays more than 1 token / hour

So yes, I would gladly spend real money instead of dumb farming for better stats, that you actually need if you want to enjoy the end-game content.

As I said before, I opened many times (too many for my liking) the undaunted chest to get the Divines Ilambris. I still don't have it after months of boring content repeating. To get such keys I must complete those dumb quests, repeating the same boring dungeons day after day, sometimes with noob groups that cannot even kill the last boss in vet mode, so I must complete it in normal to get at least a key... I don't enjoy it and soon I'll get to the point of not enjoying the game anymore .

So I would pay for it to end my pain and to also end wasting my time in such manner, because I paid more than 300 euro on this game so far and I don't want to abandon my "investment" in digital fun. ESO is a good game afterall and if they don't give us nothing else for single player, I'm buying here in this MMO.
Paying for playing it's ok for me. You don't wanna know how much I paid for Hearthstone ) It makes me sick even thinking about it ... about the price of a good 2nd hand car )))))))

Again about p2w, I don't want to buy the item without looting it first - that would change completely the game, removing basically any incentive to do group PVE (and still not p2w according to the general accepted definition).
I just want to change the stats, to make it equal to your item, paying instead of farming it for 100 hours or more, just because I value my time more? No. Just because it's boring like hell to repeat the same content hundreds of hours and then the delusion, when again you didn't get the correct stats after seeing the correct item in your inventory. That makes me feel bad. I play to feel good. I'm already paying to play it so I don't mind paying a bit more to enhance my experience.

Why did I waste the time to reply here ? Because this is important to me and I would be happy to pay for such token (like many others who actually are farming now the dumb items or they are just living their real life - I'm at work now, in a short break between my patients, so I can reply here).

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I will not make a poll out of it.

I trust ZOS and their marketing experts.

We should be able to change traits, but only on crafted gear.

Are you saying whoever has the biggest wallet gets to skip all the effort and others without the money to pay up have to grind for hours?

Just no, but remove the bop crap like it was before.

Qbiken wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

We should be able to change traits, but only on crafted gear.

This ^

Why? You dont need to change traits on CRAFTED gear...you just craft it with the traits you want. No, we need to be able to change traits on dropped gear...but no, it shouldnt be a crown store item, it should be an item that drops with the rarity of Aetherial Dust....which is reasonable, it doesnt drop often, but it drops more often than Aetheric Ciphers, but less often than Potent Nirncrux. This way it has a value of roughly 100k, which is a reasonable cost to change an item trait.

This is a pay to win mechanic. Its not game breaking and would not create a disparity between different players combat potential at max level with BIS. However, you are suggesting that we should be able to purchase BIS stats with an item off the crown store, skipping all of the prerequisite game mechanics required to obtain BIS.

This is lazy, would lead to a crash in the player economy and would detract from the games longevity. Additionally, the NA and EU game markets have a proven track record of a drop in the active player base once pay to win mechanics are introduced. For examples, go look up some of the recent Korean titles and their introduction to a western market. Archage is the example that immediately comes to mind.

What your suggesting is harmful to the player base and to multiple game mechanics. You should only be able to purchase cosmetic changes or non-combat convenience item such as the merchants. Anything altering a combat stat is a strict no, sorry.

That's a wonderful pity party you're throwing, I can't help but read "me, me, me, me... me". You could always go farm Gold to purchase an alternate item with strong stats off the AH, as most of us do. Or settle for an infused or precise trait that is second best. While your being bored of content has nothing to do with this request. Go try alternate content.

I'm sorry you feel that earning the best is an inconvenience. And no ESO is not the only game that does not have a pay to win edit fot gear stats. Go play WOW or another title that will cater to your needs.

...sorry I had to edit this. You would actualy find WOW's gear grind even more of an inconvience given you have to obtain new BIS for every Expansion they release (on a near yearly basis). However, you can at least spend your fortunes and buy gold to buy some of your gear in that title, though it's not there BIS gear either. Good luck finding that mechanic anywhere out side of a cell phone app.