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I think you misunderstood. They get less rewards than we do, so they kill them quicker. Where as we get more rewards so we kill them slower. It also only takes ~15 minutes to finish all 3 higher tier bam vanguards with Slaughter and basic consumables like charms/scroll/nostrum. That means 1 hour is 4 characters making 7 characters less than 2 hours.
Also, if you really kill BAMs slow, you can duo the quest with someone even if you're doing it legitimately and killing double, you'll probably still finish sooner than if you soloed.
As for my personal opinion on the matter... I don't think there should be motes at all and the BAMs simply be re-balanced with them not as a possibility. Although, seeing as that most likely won't happen, I don't think they should be 100% for us. While yes, you will kill them faster, but the rewards will completely lose its value anyways and then the dailies become pointless to do.
If you want effortless VGs, just do CW+KC.
This is actually the reason as of why i started this thread: the items and credits had a certain price when the double bonus happened some four months ago and it was just fine but right now the market value dropped so much that the items and credits are at "half" the value compared to when they got doubled so in other words they are actually not doubled anymore. Is it understandable? They are doubled but they have half the value so they are actually normal.
Now, is it fine to use this argument anymore with the items and credits being doubled even if their value dropped so much to have the keening dawn mote at 1/9 rate? Right now, we have to either improve the value of the vanguard quests or make the keening dawn mote drop a bit more often ( 100% drop rate is too broken but then again 10% is not nice either so what about 25% drop rate for the mote ).
25% seems kinda high... with only 1 mote you can kill AT LEAST 4 mobs... if u increase the drop rate to 25%, you will probably get another another mote... 4 mobs more... another mote.....
The mid tier bams like fimberlisk, rock bam and the one eyed one, usually they drop keen a bit more than the high tiered ones; at least that's what I noticed.
Yesterday I had keen emotes dropping 4 or 5 times in each high tier bam quest, which was really rare I guess. It can be so random at times.
(Full adrenaline rush + Guardian Shout + keen emote + full 10 stacks = kill bam in 3 seconds
they are all so damn far from each other... ):
I know how you feel lol. That moment when I want to make use of keen emote and realize the next bam is so far away.
I can only do bam on alt with imp+15. Anything else is torture.
you're doing it wrong
if you're doing it with DN priest, you are already doing it wrong lol
I don't mind if EME nerf the crit power from the motes and increase the drop rates, but we certainly need a better drop rate or a better balance between the classes.