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Please don't EVER make Arenas required for an event again.
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Kiralyn2000✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭The achievement for the holiday requires an arena plunder skull so yeah, they are required if you want the achievement.It is a requirement to run all that stuff if the player intends to purchase the house with gold, or get motifs, or any of the drops from the event.
Ok, the achievement & house, I'll agree with. I got the house & achievement before they switched to the new plunder skull system, so I never had to do an arena (or dungeon, or most of those other things) for it. Just farm a metric ton of regular skulls.
"Or any of the drops from the event".... So, if you don't do Arenas, you won't get any event drops? None at all? Wow, that seems like poor design. /s0 -
Sephyr✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Kiralyn2000 wrote: »How are Arenas "required" by the event? Sure, you can get one more 'good' plunder skull from them, but you get your tickets from whichever first boss you do each day. And the Dremora motifs that drop there are tradeable, right? So what's 'required'?
Game is RNG based. The more chances you take at a gold drop, the higher your chances to obtain the items. Seems required to me.
The event does not require you to get all the gold plunder skulls in a day, in order to get some special result. i.e, there is nothing "required" about Arenas. "I'd like another shot at gold skull drops" is not a requirement.
Agreed. I've been able to get everything every year and I didn't have access to Orsinium for the longest time. While I ran raids, I didn't run them in the month of October because my PvE guilds at that time were very focused on other events in other games as well. The last thing I needed this year was to purchase the house. What do you know? I had enough gold to do that almost six times over.0 -
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✭✭✭witchdoctor wrote: »So you have to do normal Maelstrom once? Yep, totally awful design.
It would be if true. It completely sucks for some of us.PC
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Kurat✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »How are Arenas "required" by the event? Sure, you can get one more 'good' plunder skull from them, but you get your tickets from whichever first boss you do each day. And the Dremora motifs that drop there are tradeable, right? So what's 'required'?
The achievement for the holiday requires an arena plunder skull so yeah, they are required if you want the achievement.
Ya its outrageous that we need to do something for achievements.
Also we should get Godslayer and the mount from normal, it doesn't make sense that they force us to do vet and trifecta.4 -
driosketch✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »How are Arenas "required" by the event? Sure, you can get one more 'good' plunder skull from them, but you get your tickets from whichever first boss you do each day. And the Dremora motifs that drop there are tradeable, right? So what's 'required'?
The achievement for the holiday requires an arena plunder skull so yeah, they are required if you want the achievement.
It's a side achievement. It isn't needed for any of the titles or momentos. It's not part of the requirement for buying the house, and doesn't unlock any achievement furnishings. Only person who would worry about it is a completionist, and currently it's easier to complete than the Happy work for Hollowjack one, which is a requirement for the above.Edited by driosketch on October 24, 2020 7:33AMMain: Drio Azul ~ DC, Redguard, Healer/Magicka Templar ~ NA-PC
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notyuu✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭a bit boring yeah...but you can blitz nMA in about ~20 mins and still get the golden skulls, so it's not that bad1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Atherakhia wrote: »Arenas aren't fun. They were hardly fun the first time through. But the eleventymillionth time through after farming the one specific item you want, they are a chore at best and punishment at worst. They simply take too long and the difficulty disparity between normal (please shoot me I'd rather AFK and lick paint off the wall than do another wave of this nonsense) and vet (please give me the one item I want because I'd rather pull a double working at McDonalds than do another run of this nonsense).
Dramatically decrease the difficulty in vet and allow us to do 'hard mode' by simply spawning all waves at once. Cause something needs to be done about the amount of time each arena takes, the amount of attention required to do each run, and the amount of runs we must do to complete the task we're after. But then to add one more scab to rip off, you make them part of a holiday event...
Yeah I don't care for them either. Never have. I did a few full runs during the last Halloween event... but it didn't last long. This year I haven't done a single one and I expect it to stay that way. That content just isn't fun for me and if I'm going to invest that kind of time into something (especially on a daily basis) then I'm going to have to enjoy doing it. Otherwise it's probably not going to happen. haha0 -
Irfind✭✭✭✭✭Hapexamendios wrote: »So tell me how you feel about Trials be a "requirement".
I hate it i will never get this, is the only one missing
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Hallothiel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Don’t have to do MA, normal or vet. Could just get some friends / guildmates & run BRP or DSA easily with the plus side of potentially getting decent weapons.
Only need to do one arena one time during the whole event. Not that hard.
As someone said above, no mention of trial requirement?!2 -
LadyNalcarya✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Agreed.
I did one of the arenas once. By the 4th boss I was already bored. I do not care for that format. I think a 2 person dungeon might be fun, but solo dungeon stuff is just boring to me.
You can do nDSA or nBRP with 2 people if you don't want to do Maelstrom... It's not like there's just one arena.Dro-m'Athra Destroyer | Divayth Fyr's Coadjutor | Voice of Reason
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SgtNuttzmeg✭✭✭✭Can we stop this trend of trying to nerf content? vMA is fine where it is. It is a fraction of how difficult it was in the past. Flawless Conquer used to mean a lot more than it does now, do it on normal if you can't on vet. The devs made two sets of Maelstrom Weaps for a reason.Legions of Mordor Core
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