The drop rate of style pages in normal Maelstrom is too low for the time required.
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9 stages, 4-5 rounds each, the fact that it takes so long and yet the percentage rate dropping of the style pages is under 10% seems like a kick in the face to anyone who doesn't want to do VMA 900 times.
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Gariele✭✭✭✭✭Or you could do Vet and get a guaranteed drop.PC/EUWinter Rose Autumn Rose Summer Rose Pacific Rose Midnight RoseRoseESO DiscordRoseESO Website40 -
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✭✭Not everyone wants to do VMA anymore than they have to. I've completed it. Got what I wanted from it.. now I thought it'd be possible to farm regular MA to get the style pages, but out of 10 runs nothing has dropped.2 -
MilwaukeeScott✭✭✭✭✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »seems like a kick in the face to anyone who doesn't want to do VMA 900 times.
No.Edited by MilwaukeeScott on August 10, 2019 7:35PMPS4NA
All I see is hate and rage from people who don't understand how to.....4 -
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✭Not sure why anyone would want to grind any content, especially MA for a butt-f'ugly motif, I guess beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.6 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Go grind gold doing anything you want that has a good rate of returns. Use gold to buy style pages from other players. Poof! You got all the pages without having to go in, even on normal!1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭well... that sucks. guess I'll just have to do without those styles and just stick to like 60 styles i already have unlocked instead. unless they become as cheap on traders as Five companion style pages.dirty worthless casual.
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✭✭✭✭✭MLGProPlayer wrote: »Good. It makes doing vet more rewarding.
^This.^
Technically, pages shouldn’t drop on normal at all ...8 -
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✭✭Taleof2Cities wrote: »MLGProPlayer wrote: »Good. It makes doing vet more rewarding.
^This.^
Technically, pages shouldn’t drop on normal at all ...
Yes, because if someone can't complete VMA they shouldn't have any reason to run normal. None at all. Best to just have those people farm mats and get gold to buy from You, right?10 -
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✭✭✭✭✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »Taleof2Cities wrote: »MLGProPlayer wrote: »Good. It makes doing vet more rewarding.
^This.^
Technically, pages shouldn’t drop on normal at all ...
Yes, because if someone can't complete VMA they shouldn't have any reason to run normal. None at all. Best to just have those people farm mats and get gold to buy from You, right?
There are a whole lot of problems with this argument ... let's go through each one, shall we?
1. vMA weapons are only available on the Vet difficulty version of the Arena. Only the players who have worked hard to achieve a build and gameplay to complete it are rewarded. If players want to proudly display the style, the style pages should reflect the level of content the player has cleared. Consider yourself lucky they even drop on normal ... or are on sale for tickets or crowns.
2. The difficulty spike between normal and veteran is huge with normal being absurdly easy. Why should a player be rewarded for completing content they can do with both eyes closed?
3. Any completionist player knows they have to try different types of content in ESO to complete their achievements and outfit styles. Maelstrom is no different. Working hard on different playstyles is eventually rewarded. No free passes though.16 -
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✭✭You didn't contradict anything in my argument you just went back to yours, which I already disagreed with. There should be more incentive to do normal maelstrom if only to show people that its not the impossible task that they think it is. I do it on fresh alts with crafted sets. I also do vet maelstrom on my main but dont believe it should be the only way to get style pages.
If we start excluding people from events they just wont log in at all and the game will be empty.9 -
MaddPowered✭✭✭✭✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »You didn't contradict anything in my argument you just went back to yours, which I already disagreed with. There should be more incentive to do normal maelstrom if only to show people that its not the impossible task that they think it is. I do it on fresh alts with crafted sets. I also do vet maelstrom on my main but dont believe it should be the only way to get style pages.
If we start excluding people from events they just wont log in at all and the game will be empty.
so would you also believe that maelstrom weapons should drop in normal then?World's First Planesbreaker
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Corpier✭✭✭✭Not sure why anyone would want to grind any content, especially MA for a butt-f'ugly motif, I guess beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
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midgetfromtheshire✭✭✭✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »You didn't contradict anything in my argument you just went back to yours, which I already disagreed with. There should be more incentive to do normal maelstrom if only to show people that its not the impossible task that they think it is. I do it on fresh alts with crafted sets. I also do vet maelstrom on my main but dont believe it should be the only way to get style pages.
If we start excluding people from events they just wont log in at all and the game will be empty.
ZOS gives you everyone alternatives to obtaining the styles through gold, tickets and/or crowns. Two of them are tied directly with the event, doing the dailies for your two tickets and farming the double nodes in Wrothgar to sell for gold which you can buy from other players who are able to clear vMA.Get rid of faction locks.2 -
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✭✭✭✭MaddPowered wrote: »PizzaCat82 wrote: »You didn't contradict anything in my argument you just went back to yours, which I already disagreed with. There should be more incentive to do normal maelstrom if only to show people that its not the impossible task that they think it is. I do it on fresh alts with crafted sets. I also do vet maelstrom on my main but dont believe it should be the only way to get style pages.
If we start excluding people from events they just wont log in at all and the game will be empty.
so would you also believe that maelstrom weapons should drop in normal then?
I actually want normal maelstrom and normal DSA to drop imperfected weapons, so that the best weapons are rewarded for the hardest work done, but options are there for entry level folks.
I know I'm not the one you quoted, but I agree (partially) with their OP. I'd like to see a 1/3 drop chance for normal imho. Figure a clear takes 30 minutes on normal for me, takes around an hour on vet.4 -
SoLooney✭✭✭✭✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »9 stages, 4-5 rounds each, the fact that it takes so long and yet the percentage rate dropping of the style pages is under 10% seems like a kick in the face to anyone who doesn't want to do VMA 900 times.
Its a kick in the face to anyone who is doing it on vet.
Why should you be rewarded for doing such easy content compared to its veteran version? Exactly, there are none. Honestly, you were lucky zos allowed pages to be dropped in normal
If you want the pages, farm it on vet or buy themEdited by SoLooney on August 11, 2019 1:29AM4 -
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✭Not sure why anyone would want to grind any content, especially MA for a butt-f'ugly motif, I guess beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
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Bryath✭✭✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »9 stages, 4-5 rounds each, the fact that it takes so long and yet the percentage rate dropping of the style pages is under 10% seems like a kick in the face to anyone who doesn't want to do VMA 900 times.
Its a kick in the face to anyone who is doing it on vet.
Why should you be rewarded for doing such easy content compared to its veteran version? Exactly, there are none. Honestly, you were lucky zos allowed pages to be dropped in normal
If you want the pages, farm it on vet or buy them
Right, anything but the hardest possible difficulty should drop nothing but junk gear and a token amount of gold.
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You literally said it yourself, how easy it is. I do normal MA with level 3 characters with no gear except the starting generic weapon plus what they find in the chests and no champion points assigned, and I'm a tank main. Anyone who thinks normal MA is in any way difficult is just wrong and one attempt from knowing better. It's so easy it would be completely OTT to let the motif drop freely in normal. Players who don't want to earn the rewards the hard way have ways of obtaining them with gold or cash. No one is excluded.PizzaCat82 wrote: »I do it on fresh alts with crafted sets. I also do vet maelstrom on my main but dont believe it should be the only way to get style pages.
If we start excluding people from events they just wont log in at all and the game will be empty.AD is the best looking faction. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them.7 -
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✭Are the ones that drop in MA somehow different to the ones you can buy with tickets? I'm confused as to why anyone would bother farming for them if they're the same. Sure if you're doing VMA anyway for the double drops, it makes sense, but normal MA drops crappy stuff, so doesn't it make sense to buy them with tickets? I'm confused by the whole thing to be honest. I don't particularly like the style myself but I get that some people want it to be exclusive to those who've completed VMA.
I assumed that you HAD to do MA to get them, then I went to get my next berry and saw the pages. Personally I'd prefer the event merchant to have Trinimac and Malacath pages instead. I couldn't epeen with my VMA weapon if I didn't actually HAVE a VMA weapon (which I don't), I'd feel a bit fake
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Its a kick in the face to anyone who is doing it on vet.
Why should you be rewarded for doing such easy content compared to its veteran version? Exactly, there are none. Honestly, you were lucky zos allowed pages to be dropped in normal
If you want the pages, farm it on vet or buy them
Why is style pages "a kick in the face". Vet drops the actual weapons. That's your "but vet should give more!"
As others have pointed out, the pages can also be grabbed for tickets or traded. So there's no Super Special Ego Bonus for the styles. Again, that's what the actual weapons are for.
If you want to argue "they should be Special™", you should also be arguing for none available for tickets & that they should be untradable, so that only people who've run vMA can have them at all. (Honestly, buying them is so much more trivial than running nMA for one. "You shouldn't get them from nMA, you should get them for gold!" sounds completely absurd.)4 -
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✭✭Some people want to spend their tickets on Indrik stuff, not style pages unless they have to. The main appeal of VMA is better weapons, not showing off the Epeen.. that's what titles are for.
Letting the pages drop more often in Normal MA would just make it less unbearable to farm. I'll use gold if I have to, but it really puts a damper on the event if most people have to buy them.2 -
Grandma✭✭✭✭✭that fact that idiots are trying to sell them for 50k+ right now is hysterical. Everyone on the planet is burning the ever lasting crap out of vma. it'll be a desolate wasteland next week and all the style pages will expire in guild stores for 1k each at most. If that isn't true then some apocalypse crap is happening.GH / 3/04/2021 / Elemental Catalyst Necromancer2 -
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✭✭✭✭Ragged_Claw wrote: »Are the ones that drop in MA somehow different to the ones you can buy with tickets? I'm confused as to why anyone would bother farming for them if they're the same. Sure if you're doing VMA anyway for the double drops, it makes sense, but normal MA drops crappy stuff, so doesn't it make sense to buy them with tickets? I'm confused by the whole thing to be honest. I don't particularly like the style myself but I get that some people want it to be exclusive to those who've completed VMA.
I assumed that you HAD to do MA to get them, then I went to get my next berry and saw the pages. Personally I'd prefer the event merchant to have Trinimac and Malacath pages instead. I couldn't epeen with my VMA weapon if I didn't actually HAVE a VMA weapon (which I don't), I'd feel a bit fake
Tickets are limited. You can only get, at most, 24 if you do the required content each day during this event. Indrik berries, if you want to evolve, are also only available during the events and only by event tickets. I haven't looked at the Impressario yet, but there are 10 different weapons styles (axe, battle-axe, bow, dagger, mace, maul, shield, staves, sword, and greatsword) so if things like sword and greatsword are separate pages which I believe they are, you can't even earn enough event tickets this event to buy them all at 5 tickets apiece.
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✭✭✭✭✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »Some people want to spend their tickets on Indrik stuff, not style pages unless they have to. The main appeal of VMA is better weapons, not showing off the Epeen.. that's what titles are for.
Letting the pages drop more often in Normal MA would just make it less unbearable to farm. I'll use gold if I have to, but it really puts a damper on the event if most people have to buy them.
Another poor argument.
Using this logic, anyone that runs Sunspire on normal difficulty should be awarded the Sunspire Senche mount ... since only titles reflect a player's ability and build theorycrafting.
By the way, the drop rate on pages has not been totally awful. Since the Event started, I've received two (2) pages in nine (9) normal Maelstrom runs. That's a 22% drop rate.
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✭PizzaCat82 wrote: »seems like a kick in the face to anyone who doesn't want to do VMA 900 times.
lol, no. I don't mind grinding vMA since I need to stock up on Dual Wield drops so 2 birds 1 stone. And if vMA wasn't so buggy right now it'd be even better.PizzaCat82 wrote: »Some people want to spend their tickets on Indrik stuff, not style pages unless they have to. The main appeal of VMA is better weapons, not showing off the Epeen.. that's what titles are for.
Letting the pages drop more often in Normal MA would just make it less unbearable to farm. I'll use gold if I have to, but it really puts a damper on the event if most people have to buy them.
Also wrong. If you don't want to slog through vMA, then either get to grinding more normal, or spend money/tickets on getting the pages. Stop acting like you're entitled to the same reward as people who actually put the effort to blitz through vMA repeatedly.
Also let's be realistic here, are you really going to use all those styles? Probably not.I know I am, I love the aesthetic of the Maelstrom weapons.Edited by Heatnix90 on August 11, 2019 5:27AM2
