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Rally BAMs still need urgently fixing!!!
The recent changes to the Rally BAMs have caused much comment on our server (and I expect other servers too). I'm not going to decry the changes completely, I actually thinks some of the changes are good but overall the bad currently outweighs the good.
The Good Increasing the BAMs' HP and damage capabilities has made them much more of a challenge and seems to have eliminated the desire to try and summon the BAM in secret as 1 raid alone isn't going to kill the BAM quickly (looks to be taking around 10 minutes for 50 people on our server). Increasing the number of ranking raids from 3 to 5 is also good, it makes it worthwhile for more raids and non-full raids to take part.
The Bad The rewards have been nerfed big time. We got 2 Rally quests on our server today and both BAMs only dropped 1 Imperator box each, between 5 raids, and a few thousand gold. Considering the effort it takes to kill these BAMs, considering the strain it puts on the game client (we had 5 people crash in our raid alone), the rewards just simply don't come close to being worth it. Yes an Imperator box is a HUGE deal but there's basically only a 1 in 50ish chance (based on the estimates of the number of people taking part) for a fight that is basically a grind and an annoyance (client crashes and/or framerate close to 0). Our group regularly was able to field 40 people for Rally BAMs, today we only managed 20 and many indicated that they're not going to bother tomorrow.
Certainly EME shouldn't just be giving Imp Boxes away but the rewards don't match the inconvenience, if there are fewer people tomorrow then the BAM will take even longer to kill and even more people will find something better to do until no one bothers with Rally at all.
The Good Increasing the BAMs' HP and damage capabilities has made them much more of a challenge and seems to have eliminated the desire to try and summon the BAM in secret as 1 raid alone isn't going to kill the BAM quickly (looks to be taking around 10 minutes for 50 people on our server). Increasing the number of ranking raids from 3 to 5 is also good, it makes it worthwhile for more raids and non-full raids to take part.
The Bad The rewards have been nerfed big time. We got 2 Rally quests on our server today and both BAMs only dropped 1 Imperator box each, between 5 raids, and a few thousand gold. Considering the effort it takes to kill these BAMs, considering the strain it puts on the game client (we had 5 people crash in our raid alone), the rewards just simply don't come close to being worth it. Yes an Imperator box is a HUGE deal but there's basically only a 1 in 50ish chance (based on the estimates of the number of people taking part) for a fight that is basically a grind and an annoyance (client crashes and/or framerate close to 0). Our group regularly was able to field 40 people for Rally BAMs, today we only managed 20 and many indicated that they're not going to bother tomorrow.
Certainly EME shouldn't just be giving Imp Boxes away but the rewards don't match the inconvenience, if there are fewer people tomorrow then the BAM will take even longer to kill and even more people will find something better to do until no one bothers with Rally at all.
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Idk why you guys are qqing about imperator drop when in that course of time there is no real other way to get that much in terms of monetary value.