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Porting Things Over From EU Tera: Champion Challenges and IOD BAMs
1. Can we have regular champion challenges like those in EU Tera? https://en.tera.gameforge.com/news/detail/event-champion-challenges-6
This can encourage more people to clear dungeons, especially those newer dungeons.
2. Can we have IOD BAMs like those In EU Tera, with buffed hp but guaranteed drop on keen mote? This can encourage more people to clear IOD BAMs without making it feel like a chore.
This can encourage more people to clear dungeons, especially those newer dungeons.
2. Can we have IOD BAMs like those In EU Tera, with buffed hp but guaranteed drop on keen mote? This can encourage more people to clear IOD BAMs without making it feel like a chore.
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Nothing they do about dungeons right now is going to motivate people to run them. Content has been out for months and it's expected to get stale.
RE: Champion Challenge - That's a bit presumptuous saying that for everyone. I think it's highly dependent on the rewards (as it is often). Regardless, I'd know of at least a handful people, including myself, that would start running things other than raid.
It would be worth a try for EME to implement. It would also give them a "test run" if they were to use it more in future patches.
im never do iod ( besides goldenfingers tokens event or soemiting like this ) so im dont see why need keen motes 100% droop ( and you know, avoid the super abuse farm asian mode huehue )
It's only stale because EME insists on creating broken events that encourage brainless farming of easy dungeons or afking in open world raids.
If you properly do PvE events by encouraging people to do content that rewards people for spending time learning the tougher dungeons, then you don't get that bored. Compare VHNM/ABNM rewards to VSNM during that event.
EME very clearly doesn't know how to balance rewards with time/effort.
About the challenges, I don't think we need them. You clear dungeons so much it gets boring.
What we need is something like an extracurricular activity that is completely separated from bgs and dungeons.
Monthly mongo hunt would motivate many players to not just play, but is an activity that anyone can do and is great distraction from the dungeon grind, and good activity to do while waiting on queues for bgs.
That's like saying an orange is carrot + grapefruit.
We also have double credits permanently not double items though. But honestly we don't do IoD as much, because our MWA comes from instances mostly (4x ABNM worth more than 3x top IoD for example).
For comparison sake, how many credits do the level 65 IoD BAM quests provide now? It's possible that they rebalanced all of this since I compared to EU last, but I do remember at the time we were earning double credits here compared to there. (At first it was double gold too, but they did correct that.)
These quests also provide TERA Reward points here, so it's another reason why the balancing is different.
there's nothing left to give on NA tera
alkahest is worthless, feedstock is worthless, spellbind is worthless, hell even the costumes are worthless because that's all they have left to hand out.
nothing they give out at this point is going to make players start flocking to dungeons unless it's vm boxes, or a lot of vm mats, both of which really don't need to be any easier to obtain than they already are
nothing in this game is ever going to feel rewarding enough if they continue to just hand things out like this
2) Those who are doing IoD now tend to be those who don't have the luxury to grind the whole day during mongos or aren't frequent players, due to oversupply of mats.
Fairly sure NA has double items, just not double gold or scales.
At the very least, NA gets 30 tokens instead of 15 like they do in KR. But I'm nearly positive that all our vanguards have doubled basic rewards. It was a change made in response to how things were modified after the IoD update.
2) IoD is already very easy. You can do high tier with full guile and 1 piece of misery. It is very profitable, not time consuming, and very easy. No changes are needed.
Brainless afk farming? Only during the first mongo event. You can't afk during boss invasions like Peanut von Strudel. You can't afk during argons, because you have to constantly change channels and move to the boss (and global is soooooo much fun anyways during those events.) Can't afk during blue bloxes, because you won't find any.
I could even see your point back when Kyra was in Channelworks, but they took that away and made it mid tier or higher dungeons. And even then.. it's a HIGHLIGHT. It's an added bonus. If you didn't want to run SSNM 15 times per character you didn't have to, you could do all of your normal things, and still get a bonus.
Finally, EME does not force you to participate in events. If you don't like them, and find them "brainless" then don't freaking play?
> 1) We don't have to do something because EU does it. Materials are very plentiful here. In EU they are not. EME is not Gamefore, we don't have to copy them every time they do an event. If you want those events go play on EU. You'll be back when you see how much longer it takes to gear up.
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> 2) IoD is already very easy. You can do high tier with full guile and 1 piece of misery. It is very profitable, not time consuming, and very easy. No changes are needed.
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> Brainless afk farming? Only during the first mongo event. You can't afk during boss invasions like Peanut von Strudel. You can't afk during argons, because you have to constantly change channels and move to the boss (and global is soooooo much fun anyways during those events.) Can't afk during blue bloxes, because you won't find any.
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> I could even see your point back when Kyra was in Channelworks, but they took that away and made it mid tier or higher dungeons. And even then.. it's a HIGHLIGHT. It's an added bonus. If you didn't want to run SSNM 15 times per character you didn't have to, you could do all of your normal things, and still get a bonus.
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> Finally, EME does not force you to participate in events. If you don't like them, and find them "brainless" then don't freaking play?
You can nearly afk during bam events considering you don't have to hit the boss. You change channels and boom. It requires you tabbing in like once a min to check, which is not comparable to the focus required to run a dungeon or battleground.
As for the EU dungeon event, we get the same builds pretty much; it's probably there. Why not introduce variety, and attempt to help motivate people to run dungeons. I didn't know there was harm in running an event that's not a monster spawn mongos copy. Players are asking for events all the time too.
And no, you don't have to run events. But when the people who do the events get equivalent mats or items to weeks of farming, that's a problem.
However I really like the champion challenges system. I agree that right now there is indeed not much that could be given out anymore as we got flooded with mats and whatnot. But for the next patch, I'd be very happy about a system like this if it's not too excessive.