Suggestion for end Rewards

[EightyFour]

I have a suggestion for end rewards, as I currently understand it, games are supposed to reward you for competing something, it maybe a new weapon of some sort in some games, or you unlock a new level or you even get some item or health gain.

Currently in DDO you a rewarded from completing a quest by xp and an end reward as well as some chests.

But what happens when a character is level capped? The xp no longer becomes a reward and the chests don't always give you what you are looking for, a lot of times they don't give you anything you are looking for, and the end rewards are about as good as the chests.

So what I'm thinking to help a little with this is have a cash reward at the end of the quest, either you take an item, or if there is nothing that you can use, sell, or trade, have a cash pile listed for the full amount of the item the is worth the most. Or just a static amount that is worth more than 35% of the full item worth of the most expensive item.

[sirgog]

...Or just a static amount that is worth more than 35% of the full item worth of the most expensive item.

It's called looting the Major Mneumonic Potion that drops as an end reward a lot of the time, then selling it on the Auction House for 8000 plat.

[EightyFour]

It's called looting the Major Mneumonic Potion that drops as an end reward a lot of the time, then selling it on the Auction House for 8000 plat.

Oh...I didn't realize that Major Mneumonic Potion are a guaranteed drop, my lists must be bugged. Maybe I should send in a bug report on this?

[kaelis]

no offence but his post was more then clear he said a lot... which is true, doing high end quests more often then not you will see a major pot at the bottom of your list

[sirgog]

no offence but his post was more then clear he said a lot... which is true, doing high end quests more often then not you will see a major pot at the bottom of your list

Yep. They drop pretty often if you play a character that's got more levels of Clr Wiz or Sorc than any other class.

[GrayOldDruid]

Yep. They drop pretty often UNLESS you play a character that's got more levels of Clr Wiz or Sorc than any other class.

Fixed that...

[Angelus_dead]

Oh...I didn't realize that Major Mneumonic Potion are a guaranteed drop, my lists must be bugged. Maybe I should send in a bug report on this?

They're not guaranteed, but if you're a spellcaster in class-specific mode they appear over 20% of the time.

[EightyFour]

My point here is that they don't drop all the time, it's random so it's great when they do and the drop rate is great.

But my point is when you do get a list full of junk, what is it that you do? Do you pick the best or most expensive item and than vendor trash it?

I'm just guessing here, but I'm think you do, that's what the majority of players I know do.

So I suggest a static reward, a.k.a. a reward that is always listed and available as a reward, a stack of money, that's what it's going to become anyway, might as well get more cash as a choice on your list if everything is junk, otherwise most people are just left disappointed, do I think this is going to make everyone happy? No, but I think it would be a better reward than most of the items that pop up on end reward lists. As for major pots, if I see them I send them to my cleric or one of my two casters.

[jmelanie7]

Oh yeah, so farmers will just have more plats ... nice!!

[Beherit_Baphomar]

They're not guaranteed, but if you're a spellcaster in class-specific mode they appear over 20% of the time.

Or a barbarian.....

[Milolyen]

The powergamer will always have more than the casual gamer and if you are a casual gamer comparing yourself to a powergamer then you will always be miserable.

Increasing the amount of plat in the game will do nothing for the "feeling" of being poor. Look at it this way, you have 100kpp between your 3 chars however the person over here has 900kpp on each of his 3 main chars. All this would do ... that person with 100kpp between his 3 chars will now have 100kpp on each of his chars but the other guy with 900kpp on each of his 3 main chars has now got 4 char's with 900kpp. You know what that will do to the price for the "uber" items on the AH? It will only make them sell for more so while the casual gamer will have a total of 300kpp that power gamer will have 3.6mpp and those "uber" items on the ah will still be out of reach to that casual gamer. If you are loosing money on consumables then you need to rethink your current strategies. Increasing the amount of currency in circulation will never solve the gap between the have and have not's.

Milolyen

[darkrune]

It's called looting the Major Mneumonic Potion that drops as an end reward a lot of the time, then selling it on the Auction House for 8000 plat.

My motto... When in doubt, Pot it out!!!!

[EightyFour]

My motto... When in doubt, Pot it out!!!!

Sorry, I don't smoke that stuff.