If you PvP a decent amount, how do you not have enough crystals? I have so many I destroy them now.

I'm going to say other simply because of the purchase for crowns statement. Gold or event tickets sure, I can get behind that for those that hate pvp. But once they're behind crowns, and the pricing Zo$ like a to put up, I'm afraid of some change where those of us that DO PVP will have to start spending more money in the cash shop.

Mr_Walker wrote: »

ELawlis wrote: »

I also think this gear should be character bound, and limited to armor pieces to keep people in dungeons/trials for the weapons and jewelry, but that's just me.

No.

It was just the gear from the currency idea, not all dungeon/trial drops. Same principle as maintaining gear level to prevent PVP from being a nightmare at 10-49.

And please, at least bold the part you disagreed with instead of just that section of the post or it's taken out of context.

Dogzey wrote: »

BGS is slow. Rewards of the worthy and the daily rewards is once a day dude and 4 most of the time. 25 once in a blue moon. 200 is 4 transmutes stam dw takes up 2 instantly and idk how many times its shifted between nirn + either precise/sharpened for different classes recently. Campaigns are alliance locked ... they brought 1 unlocked now this week to console but it's dead.

Again, no.

Get 4 characters into Cyrodiil and get them up to tier 1 rewards (25000 AP - which isn't much). When the campaign ends you have your 200 Transmute Stones. Need more? Roll out more chars. 8 means 400 transmute crystals.

Do you really need to change everything every time a new patch is released to be in line with with the so called META build? No, you don't. So, your arguments aren't strong as you think they are: you lose some dps with all the nerfs? Yes you do, but it's insignificant when you take a look at the overall.

FYI: I don't change gear since Murkmire went live and until now I lost only a few k in dps without changing any gear pieces.

In this game, the major factor that determines a good dps is just related to how consistent you are at parsing (LA weaving between skills). Nothing else.

redlink1979 wrote: »

Dogzey wrote: »

BGS is slow. Rewards of the worthy and the daily rewards is once a day dude and 4 most of the time. 25 once in a blue moon. 200 is 4 transmutes stam dw takes up 2 instantly and idk how many times its shifted between nirn + either precise/sharpened for different classes recently. Campaigns are alliance locked ... they brought 1 unlocked now this week to console but it's dead.

Again, no.

Get 4 characters into Cyrodiil and get them up to tier 1 rewards (25000 AP - which isn't much). When the campaign ends you have your 200 Transmute Stones. Need more? Roll out more chars. 8 means 400 transmute crystals.

Do you really need to change everything every time a new patch is released to be in line with with the so called META build? No, you don't. So, your arguments aren't strong as you think they are: you lose some dps with all the nerfs? Yes you do, but it's insignificant when you take a look at the overall.

FYI: I don't change gear since Murkmire went live and until now I lost only a few k in dps without changing any gear pieces.

In this game, the major factor that determines a good dps is just related to how consistent you are at parsing (LA weaving between skills). Nothing else.

If you think that traits of gear and weights of gear don't matter for the higher dps your wrong. Please bare in mind this wasn't an issue until this "year of the dragons" with radical changes so frequently. All the infernos you have to change to precise, all the dw from infused to nirn sharp or nirn precise. Tank 1h to decisive from infused. Magicka gear needing all divines because of how strong shadow mundus is where as before you could stick infused on large pieces.

All this stuff adds to dps if your happy with a few k dps loss good for you. My raid teams have dps caps that need to be reached and I'd imagine 90% of end game raid groups are the exact same.

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

cheifsoap wrote: »

The LOE involved is much too high when compared to simply zerg surfing in Cyrodiil.

Except you don’t even have to do that.

Repairing walls and running siege are equally viable ways to accumulate AP towards that tier 1 50-stone geode.

You’re not even put in harm’s way ...

You assume i'm talking about the end of the campaign rewards. I wasn't, I was talking about the number of geodes from RotW.

Transmutes were never intended to just replace gear farming. Sure meta shifts a lot, but you make it sound as if you could completely replace all your sets every three months which is just not true.

People also overrate traits a lot, a few bad ones won't break your build. Do you gild all your gear OP or do you sometimes hesitate cause it will give you limited effect? Considering that golden tempers are far easier to get you should apply the same mindset to transmuting then.

I'm not contesting the reasoning behind the presence of a cap on Crystals, but IMHO there is a notable difference between "running content" and "grinding content".

Running the same content a few times is fun and actually rewarding as learning experiences. However, with the significant incidence of RNG it can as easily become an endless and mindless grind leaving you feeling pretty empty and wrung-out.
And I can be wrong but I guess it's at least one of the reasons Transmutation Crystal came to be.

Incidentally, I would like to point out that players farming those Crystals are not necessarily doing so to follow the "meta" flavour or the week. Theorycrafting is nice and all, but I personally find trying out different gears instead of using a builder and a calculator way more fun. I don't think presumptuous to speculate that I am not alone in this.

Means of getting those Crystals are pretty scarce, moreso if you're not inclined or able to do some content. I will not touch upon the RNG based ones, as since the player has absolutely no control over that grind I cannot honestly consider them reliable or effective.

The "End of Campaign" rewards are IMHO the only consistent source of Crystals, but it involves a month wait period. I'm not asking or hoping for an instant gratification of getting that many of them, since I imagine integrating the transmutation option in the game was not a way to override the initial grind, but to supersede it.
But honestly, I would have liked for them to find an alternative to the RNG-based trait grind other than another unreliable RNG-based grind, or a one-month wait.

That said, purchasable means are not means I'm hoping for either as substitutes to those slow-moving grinds.

Even if, as I've said in another thread about a pretty nasty bug resulting in having to grind anew the PvP skill lines, time is IMHO something we all value greatly as human beings, which ZoS knows very well (purchasable Skill Lines), having to resort to pay to skip some content is not what I would call an adequate or beneficial alternative.

However, it strongly implies that the mechanics involved to get those content rewards are so lacking that some players consider it a substantial waste of their time.
It's then no wonder that they find acceptable to invest real money to spare themselves what appears as a tedious chore if they consider their time has a higher value.
As I said, I don't think it's a great option, but I seriously doubt another one would be in ZoS interest.

More sources outside of PvP, but in game, not purchase.

They should increase the cap for sure - I always have too many of the damn things.

The think 500 would be more realistic.

My mail is full of rewards of the worthy that I won’t open as I’d just end up with even more.

That’s why I purposely keep off trait stuff for anything new just so I can use some of the stones.