Florrentius Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) Is bioware trying bump they're daily active player count stats by making us grind and spend so much time ingame daily? Big fail i know, but still the grind is real. im grinding 10 years old content, and all i want to do is prog raids. So when patch 7.02 has released some of us can start another type of ENDLESS gear grind. Oems and RPMs will be directly purchasable from vendor for a discounted price of 5000 tech frags (“down from 10000”) You need 7 OEMs and 14 RPMs for ONE gold augment. This equals to 105000 tech frags. SM ops will give 2000 tech frags upon full clear. That’s roughly 52 SM raids for ONE gold augment Now multiply this with the amount of augments you need for different classes and you got urself a new job. Dont forget, other pieces of gear still cost alot of tech frags aswell, e.g. tacticals & legendaries per class, per upgrade. Edited April 4, 2022 by Florrentius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pricia Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 You know it's getting real when BW manages to piss off the 1% too. Pretty much everything in the game needs to drop more tech fragments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telden Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 This doesn't even take into account how ludicrously grindy it is to get the gold augment schematic to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheCynic Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 The answer to the question in the thread title is, "We aren't being forced to do anything in particular." BioWare isn't sending large goons to our houses to menace us with Uzis and baseball bats to make sure we stay online. If you *choose* to do that, that's your problem. Yes, I agree, the gearing system is ... not what it should be, let's say. Well, not for us. For their goals, it might be exactly right, but I don't think that's a good way to go about it. On the other hand, there are *lots* of worse ways to do gearing systems. Lots worse. Take ArcheAge, where the best gear was crafted, and "YOLO" ("You Only Live Once", a desperate plea invoking suicidal fatalism) was almost a universal battlecry. Each time you tried to craft the next better tier of gear, there was (when I played, apparently it's changed since) a non-zero (and steadily increasing) chance that the process would *destroy* your gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NogueiraA Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 You know it's getting real when BW manages to piss off the 1% too. Pretty much everything in the game needs to drop more tech fragments. I LOVE the fact they have no one to back them up now, because we're all dead. Bioware killed the story -> The 1% was quiet because they don't care. Bioware killed conquest ->The 1% was quiet because they don't care. Bioware killed playing multiple alts -> The 1% was quiet because they don't care. Bioware killed pvp -> The 1% was quiet because they don't care. Now Bioware is killing the 1%, there's no one to join their vocal minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pricia Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Well, they listened somewhat. So that's something. They couldn't piss off raiders too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlBuzzard Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 You know it's getting real when BW manages to piss off the 1% too. Pretty much everything in the game needs to drop more tech fragments. Well, they listened somewhat. So that's something. They couldn't piss off raiders too ROFL !!!! Love it ... still snickering !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xhuuyaa Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 To realise how out of touch all this is it needs just one look at the tech fragments some minor bosses drop: 1. /haiku Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthmoriquendi Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Is bioware trying bump they're daily active player count stats by making us grind and spend so much time ingame daily? Big fail i know, but still the grind is real. im grinding 10 years old content, and all i want to do is prog raids. So when patch 7.02 has released some of us can start another type of ENDLESS gear grind. Oems and RPMs will be directly purchasable from vendor for a discounted price of 5000 tech frags (“down from 10000”) You need 7 OEMs and 14 RPMs for ONE gold augment. This equals to 105000 tech frags. SM ops will give 2000 tech frags upon full clear. That’s roughly 52 SM raids for ONE gold augment Now multiply this with the amount of augments you need for different classes and you got urself a new job. Dont forget, other pieces of gear still cost alot of tech frags aswell, e.g. tacticals & legendaries per class, per upgrade. This is one thing I really despise in this game anymore. Seems like everything needs an astronomical amount of resources or currency. Not just gearing, but what is left of crafting has become insane as well. Nothing is balanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikhael Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) Take ArcheAge, where the best gear was crafted, and "YOLO" ("You Only Live Once", a desperate plea invoking suicidal fatalism) was almost a universal battlecry. Each time you tried to craft the next better tier of gear, there was (when I played, apparently it's changed since) a non-zero (and steadily increasing) chance that the process would *destroy* your gear. You should have seen AION The enchanting and mana stones you socket (long story short, that game version of Augements) had the nasty habit to destroy every enchant and manastone in that gearpiece, and to make things fun, enchant goes up to 15; means you had to enchant 15 times, risk 15 times, with an ever incresing chace of destruction... and some gear had 5-6 manastone slots ArcheAge with the gear was similar A minor wonder we are not there yet with BioFail's line of thinking... Edited April 5, 2022 by Nikhael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkMatterSlifus Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I wish it was more reasonable nobody wants a grind in this type of game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muckbeast Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 You know it's getting real when BW manages to piss off the 1% too. Pretty much everything in the game needs to drop more tech fragments. The tech fragment cost of tacticals and legendary implants is absolutely fuggin ridiculous. You need 39,000 tech frags per character just to have *ONE* set of legendary implants. Then another 6,000 since most character need 2 tacticals. That's 45,000 tech fragments needed PER CHARACTER just for basic viability. Insanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florrentius Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 (edited) The tech fragment cost of tacticals and legendary implants is absolutely fuggin ridiculous. You need 39,000 tech frags per character just to have *ONE* set of legendary implants. Then another 6,000 since most character need 2 tacticals. That's 45,000 tech fragments needed PER CHARACTER just for basic viability. Insanity. and not to mention some legendaries dont even work. e.g. Revitalize (corruption) and locked & loaded (medicine)... etc... what a complete waste. They now announced 1 gold augment will cost 40k tech frags (= 20 sm raids). so if you need to augment all slots (14 slots) that 560000 tech frags (= 280 sm raids) for ONE character.... What is bioware thinking? i really cant understand this path they have taken... who asked for this? Edited April 6, 2022 by Florrentius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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