Scrying is boring and slow .....for new player

Lapin_Logic · August 2023

TaSheen wrote: »

Well, it's not a requirement.

It's not a requirement to eat a cake in real life either, but if you did want a cake and the guy who sold it to you wrapped it in 1000 skin tight vacuum sealed bags, or forced you to do 1000 cartwheels before you could eat it, you would be slightly frustrated.

The Mythics are the cake/DLC, the "Scrying" grind is the pointless tedious packaging or obstacles, much like running every dungeon 60+ times to unlock the sets from it, especially for the PVP players out there.

Sheridan · August 2023

drakeos99 wrote: »

Would LOVE to skip this leveling proccess cause it's TOO slow and boring and unfun and plus dont have the time/pateint

But being an archaeologist is all about patience.

Khenarthi · August 2023

For me the only "grind" is up to level 5, because from then on you can excavate the purple furniture leads dropping through the zones (and later the yellow and orange ones). So up to level 5, on the character I picked for the day, I dig 2 or 3 green/blue leads in Artaeum before moving on to something else that session. The treasures sell for a bit of gold, it's not too time consuming, and I can pick up some materials along the way.

cyberjanet · August 2023

Zabagad wrote: »

And so much faster - I need more gold leads now

They are never-ending in The Hollow City, though how many Void-Crystal anomalies can you cope with? I have one friend who ended up with 128.

ArchMikem · August 2023

It's...interesting, to see so many people complaining about Antiquities when I never really had any qualms about it. I feel like I'm an outcast with a bottomless pit of patience. Seems like everyone else is in such a rush for everything. Something takes a while = bad. I can't understand that, I'm not a proponent of instant gratification.

Elsonso · August 2023

ArchMikem wrote: »

It's...interesting, to see so many people complaining about Antiquities when I never really had any qualms about it. I feel like I'm an outcast with a bottomless pit of patience. Seems like everyone else is in such a rush for everything. Something takes a while = bad. I can't understand that, I'm not a proponent of instant gratification.

I don't see it as "patience" as much as "design"...

They created a grindy skill line. A couple years later, they introduce a fix, of sorts, for that grind in the cash shop.

Intentional? Who knows, but they opened that door. What they should do is meaningful QoL to ease the leveling grind at the same time as they introduced the cash shop bypass. Then the door isn't open quite as wide.

TaSheen · August 2023

I still don't find it grindy. It's fun. A LOT more fun than archaeology was in WoW.

[Caveat: I really wanted to have a career in Egyptology.... Unfortunately, real life interfered.]

SilverBride · August 2023

It wouldn't be as bad if they doubled the number of skill points gained with each successful excavation. But getting 1 skill point is barely worth it.