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Etching: So if you fail to Crit on anything, you can't even sell them to merchants.
If it's not horseshit, then what it is? Fix the damn thing already, Etching is just bait craft.
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100 g for etching 2 [filtered]
and maybe 1000 g for etching 3 [filtered]
Someone from the development side looked at this system and the problem they could only see is the vendor price. Think about what kind of thought process and decision priority went on for this to occur..
(there is a counter argument, at least they are being honest)
With well designed (addictive) RNG systems, the focus is on the wins, not the losses. Poker machines for example only play music and give you a giant light show when you win, when you loose, nothing happens. Furthermore, there is an expectation of loss, so when you win, you feel lucky, when you loose, you feel nothing. The losses are designed to be so insignificant that you don't even notice them. Losses only involve small amounts of money (slowly over time) so you barely even notice, whereas wins are large amounts of money which you do notice.
TERA is stupid, your toon actually cries when you fail to enchant and if you are doing it a bunch of times in a row, that is all you hear.
Losses involve large amounts of resources going down the drain really quickly, which you notice very easily. Because progress is gated by RNG, when you work hard, you feel entitled to progress which may not occur because RNG might screw you over. Listen to the numbers of people who rage on the forums when they fail to even reach +13 when they burn through resources that should take multiple items all the way to +15. The whole system needs a redesign.
...on the upside, it is designed so badly that I would say TERA would cure any gambler of their affliction.
Nothing is going to change for the better. Things will only get worse.
My main problem goes to Etching I and White Dendrite (or w/e the heck it name was lol) We all know it is a basic craft, and it takes too many attempts to crit WD, and we all know Etch I is poop and no one buys it even at 5 gold and 5 gold was the half of the price you could sell to NPC, the gold was constantly in your pocket, and you didn't have to put those shitss in broker and wait days that maybe they sell (I can't understand why this word is getting filtered by the way, we see the F word used in PG-13 movies)
The gold wasn't much, but at least it was gold, it could cover the refining kit prices but nope that is taken away from us but no one fixed that why the heck should I crit for a basic crafting mats? No one fixed that thousands and hours of mats for Etching III can turn to a useless 3 day etch?
The problem with etching was that we could sell Etching I to NPC from 10 Gold, and EME patches this horseshit to the patch? If anything you gotta increase the crit rate if you wanna keep this change or you gotta increase the gold sell to 20 for Etch I to NPC. I am srsly can't understand this.
Probably because of this: http://forums.enmasse.com/tera/discussion/17/forum-rules-guidelines#latest
And this isn't a movie, nor even the game itself, it's a forum with its own rules and guidelines. BTW, the word hammock is filtered in game, which is rated M on the ESRB, so you tell me which filtering is more absurd.
If I am right, they are refering to this.
Quote from patch notes:
"Etching, Crafting and Enchanting materials have had their sell price reduced to zero."
Yeah that part, so no gold from selling anything, so if you don't crit, just go die to Verno or something