The variety you get with different verses and visions is what i like about archives, i would hate that to go. Yes focused efforts is strong but it interesting to carry on without and see how else you can get the power

I'd like more new environments, we've got a couple new ones and it's definitely got lot better so couple more here and there would be a good thing. Not looking forward to "bright" ones in this means "friendlier" environment, sure thing visibility wise.

Prices might look higher if you're resetting first stage all the time, but if you're actually playing further more less couple days a week you soon will have more currency than things to spend it on.

Style pages drops are fine imo, you not supposed to be showered with those, you're getting more opportunities the further you go and that at least gives some feeling of accomplishment in game that showers you with stuff constantly.

colossalvoids wrote: »

I'd like more new environments, we've got a couple new ones and it's definitely got lot better so couple more here and there would be a good thing. Not looking forward to "bright" ones in this means "friendlier" environment, sure thing visibility wise.

Prices might look higher if you're resetting first stage all the time, but if you're actually playing further more less couple days a week you soon will have more currency than things to spend it on.

Style pages drops are fine imo, you not supposed to be showered with those, you're getting more opportunities the further you go and that at least gives some feeling of accomplishment in game that showers you with stuff constantly.

Thank you for your input first of all! I also have been playing since it came out. I’m still missing style pages and not many more armor pieces. I’m against showering players with everything but IMO armor weights are redundant and style pages could be a higher drop rate but I just want a guaranteed style page drop from at least arc 3 last boss.

I agree that the trash packs are annoying. They are harder than the bosses and take too much time.
A save would be nice too.

I disagree on pretty much everything else.
- The randomness of the verses/visions is part of what this place is. I like them but feel that some can be safely removed as most people probably do not use them much.
- The aesthetics: it's apocrypha based, so I do not see how we can see beaches there. If changed, that would be inconsistent with the lore of the place IMO.
- Currency: I think it's not enough only if you want to buy absolutely everything in the shops (and I do not mean upgrades).

Personally I am not too bothered with the IA's colorscheme, and I just find the IA fun. But am sort of against a savefunction as it disrupts the feel and flow of the IA itself. Namely going in and seeing how far you can go. So I'd rather see more upgrades that speed up the process of getting to the higher arcs much much faster.

My suggestions taken from another thread about the IA savefunction:
Instead of a save function, I'd rather ZOS finds a way to make the IA go faster. A way for players to move up through the arcs faster. Possibly through the use of upgrades.
Upgrade ideas to make the infinite archive go faster, especially when all of them are combined:
-A skip arc upgrade. Example: You buy the skip arc 1 upgrade for 1 million fortunes(has to be very expensive), and are allowed to skip arc 1. By buying the skip arc 1 upgrade, you unlock the skip arc 2 upgrade to be bought for 2 million fortunes. By buying the arc 2 skip upgrade, you unlock the skip arc 3 upgrade to be bought for 3 million fortunes. Etc, etc. This guarantees multiple things: The player has to have experience in the archive to be able to skip arcs. The player can only skip arcs they have bought the upgrades for. The player has a reason to gather massive amounts of fortunes, where the extra fortunes gains from starting in later arcs no longer matters. And the player is able to build up arc skips, the more they play the archive. (This upgrade should ofcourse exclude players from a leaderboard run, and not sure on how to handle visions with this upgrade active(maybe a new set of randomly granted visions every 24h for the skipped arcs, so we can't reset it every time to get better visions))

-An upgrade to have a 25% chance to get an avatar verse each time you can select a verse in arc 1-3, without having unlocked that avatar fully yet. Should be 500k fortunes. To allow players to get through the arcs faster. A similar upgrade for arc 4-6 for 1 million fortunes, arc 7-9 for 1.5 million fortunes, etc, etc. You can only buy the higher arc avatar verse upgrades if you have all the lower ones. So to buy the arc 4-6 avatar verse upgrade, you have to have bought the arc 1-3 avatar upgrade. And so on.

-An adjustable IA upgrade which would allow us to spawn all three groups of monsters in a stage at once, up until the arc we set it at(including the marauders!). This would still have players start over every run, but would allow us to move through the *for that player* easier arcs much much faster. A fair price for such an upgrade would be 1 million fortunes. For example: The new upgrade "IA overload" allows the player to right click and set any number from 1-99. After setting this number, all arcs up to and including that number now have the monsters in those stages spawn all three groups at once. If a player sets IA overload '5', all arcs up to and including arc 5 will spawn all three groups of monsters in stages instantly. The advantages of this type of upgrade are: 1: The players themselves can choose up to which arc they find the IA easy. 2: Arcs go by much much faster. 3: Nothing has to be changed or saved in the IA, as nothing except the monster spawnrate is changed. 4: A save function would no longer be needed. 5: This would be fair with fortune droprates in mind, noone would be able to gain massive amounts of fortunes due to re-starting at a very high arc.

- After every boss stage, let us select a verse and a vision instead of only a vision. This will help speed up our progress in the archive quite a bit, as we won't have to clear a round without a verse active.

-A fourth vision and fourth verse choice every time we get to select one of either.

-Make repairs from the merchant in the IA free. (small timesaver)

*Note: The costs of all the above upgrades should be increasingly high, as they also allow for gaining fortunes much faster. And the upgrades should always have an option to turn them completely off.*

One thing I would like to see is a bigger selection of Leads to buy. Maybe another Filer Merchant just for Leads in the IA loot table.

Having leads drop from only the side areas is a real limitation if running solo is the only option. I FINALLY got the first Apocrypha Clothing station this week. I haven’t finished the Ayleid Torc or whatever it is, and have only one of all the individual leads except the large light diffuser. It’s been said that leads drop from the Tho’at chests but I don’t think I have got a single lead from one.