No collection on PTS?

luchtt · February 4

"In addition to these templates, we’ve also made a few fixes and adjustments to templates which are listed out below:

Item Set Collections and Motifs will no longer be automatically unlocked for all PTS Template characters."

why..? this makes it so much more frustrating, inventory cluttering and annoying to gather sets to test setups/changes etc. Is there an official reasoning for this? its just such a weird change. it's already a super laggy environment with tons of bugs and no real incentive to play on, I personally won't be testing stuff on pts probably if i have to sift through the genius system of boxes in boxes in boxes in boxes (its funny for 1 time not for years) Recontstructing gear was way simpler.

Soarora · February 4

I totally agree, if anything the box system should have been changed not the collections system.

RaptorRodeoGod · February 5

I used the collection system to get around the fact that Blood drinker didn't even have a box lol

Soarora · February 13

I have now tried the box system and I absolutely hate it. I agree I might stop testing things once it gets to EU character copy if we don't get some way of unlocking the collections without going through hundreds of boxes. Even if it has to be an item we use to unlock the collections like we have for other collections that would be better than this. If anything, the boxes should be removed. They might have been useful before reconstruction but they're just not worth using now.

tomofhyrule · February 13

I just had my round of unlocking everything, and that was unnecessarily irritating and took forever. I actually had to make a second template since I accidentally deleted the motifs on my first one while trying to juggle all the boxes in their inventory.

Please let us just go back to automatically unlocking all sets and styles in the collections menu rather than opening hundreds of tiered boxes with limited inventory space just to get a template set up.

ApoAlaia · February 13

Same.

I have no idea why this change was implemented but it does add a rather frustrating layer of drudgery to the process of setting up template characters for testing.

Zastrix · February 13

It'd be really cool if they just allowed us to use custom GM-level commands to spawn in items. Like how you can do `/give` in minecraft for get X item with Y durability and Z enchant, etc.

Just allow us to copy/paste it in and get a fully set of armor with the specific trait/quality.

Keep the lootboxes if it's done this way.

Hell I'd even make a web UI thing to get custom items.

BetweenMidgets · February 13

What a stupid change.

Entaro · February 13

Please change it back so we have full stickerbook. This is such a pain.

Nilandia · February 13

This is indeed very inconvenient, not least of which because I usually have to reconstruct items anyway to get them in the traits I want. At least when I had them all in the stickerbook I could just spend transmutes instead of having to dig around in the dozens of nesting boxes.

Love_Chunks · February 18

This is absolutely stupid.

Why make it more difficult to test sets?

The boxes existed because it was the only way to get sets in the PTS.

You had a system which mostly eliminated the nesting doll rigamarole of gear hunting (Transmute station/Sticker book).

Now your forcing use to go back to the WORST way of acquiring sets in the PTS??

I mean you didn't give us complete master crater stations so we still had to dig though boxes AND transmute them.

Now we have to dig through boxes for EVERYTHING?

What the heck ZoS??

Explain this Idiocy??

OtarTheMad · February 18

What is the PTS even for anymore? I mean honestly.

Ever since Necrom or so it does not seem we have what was called “feedback weeks” and now it’s harder or impossible to test sets and report potential bugs with them.

FayJolyn · February 18

One of the joys that I get out the PTS is having all the freedom to test out all the motifs dyes together with the stuff I already collected from crates from endeavor points. Having to manually relearn all those motifs takes forever and clogs up the inventory space that I want to use for sets that I actually want to test out. What exactly made the team make this change because testing just becomes more bothersome with it and I'm much less likely to just hop on the pts server as a result of it.