End of the week with Major Malphunktion 9.23.11

[mournbladereigns]

After due consideartion I ask that the Dev's leave handwraps borked. So that Rogues can take comfort in the fact that the Devs still hate monks more than them.

[littlewing]

thanks for the update...but..

i really hope the cove fix doesnt work, i loathe that event like no other.

[Full_Bleed]

Here is a question that has not been asked and answered...

If I take an original Tier 3 Cove item and apply a Stone of Change Ritual to it, will it change to BTC?

Traditionally, the Stone of Change rituals will not change BTA items to BTC, but I'm a little worried since upgrading items in the barter box now will.


In any case, I think Turbine really needs to put an abortable WARNING in the game any time that an item will change from Unbound, BTC, BTA, or BOE. Keeping track of all the situations where state changes do occur and when they don't is a recipe for dissatisfaction.


Bottom line, people *are* going to accidentally BTC items they will wish they'd left BTA. There is no upside to angering people over that by expecting that they will read all of the release notes or forum posts.

[goblean]

I also suspect is their way to try to keep the cove relevant. If they made all items btA again, next year when it returns nobody but a handful of new players would give a ****, because we would all be set item-wise for the forseeable future, so in essence they'd be loosing one event OR be forced to update/make new items. So from their pov wasted effort either way.

I guess it is just point of view. I view almost all BtC as wasted effort. I like having a ton of alts so not being able to do a hand me down, and having to regrind an item is not fun for me. I skip over the Red Fens items, because as end rewards I only get one named and it has never been useful for the current toon. Now if I could pass that off I would run the fens for more than just favor. I truly hate BtC items, because I hate grindy mechanics.

[Vordax]

How about leaving the Barter Box around, maybe some where in the harbor. So those that have farmed ingredients can make new items for future characters. Not quite as good as a BTA item, but if you are willing to grind you can at least equip new characters.

Vordax

[Afyndax]

First of all, Major, you're the man!

Second, how can people misunderstand something so simple and well said plenty of times?!?!?!?!?!

Part of what you are seeing is the original posts being updated over time.

1. Dev makes post
2. Players ask obvious questions
3. Dev goes back to original post and answers obvious questions
4. Player 2 reads thread and thinks the first player is an idiot for asking a question that has obviously already been answered in the first post.

The players in step two are the reason so much information is NOW available in the orignal post.

[smatt]

How about leaving the Barter Box around, maybe some where in the harbor. So those that have farmed ingredients can make new items for future characters. Not quite as good as a BTA item, but if you are willing to grind you can at least equip new characters.

Vordax

Now THAT Sir, is a good idea....

[Indoran]

I like how your posts make me laugh, then ease my anxiety knowing a bit more is being done to fix this thing... GJ and keep it up! I hope your team gets a cookie or a bit less of a beating for their sacrifice and good work this week (or w/e makes kobolds happy).

[izzyboy]

How about leaving the Barter Box around, maybe some where in the harbor. So those that have farmed ingredients can make new items for future characters. Not quite as good as a BTA item, but if you are willing to grind you can at least equip new characters.

Vordax

This!

[CanuckWisdom]

How about leaving the Barter Box around, maybe some where in the harbor. So those that have farmed ingredients can make new items for future characters. Not quite as good as a BTA item, but if you are willing to grind you can at least equip new characters.

Vordax

Great idea!! +1

[raneeta]

How about leaving the Barter Box around, maybe some where in the harbor. So those that have farmed ingredients can make new items for future characters. Not quite as good as a BTA item, but if you are willing to grind you can at least equip new characters.

Vordax

Fantastic idea Vordax
+1
/double signed
/cheer
/agree

[cornelious777]

kudos to the 'end of the week' update. Even ifthere isn't much to talk about, gives us an 'update' on whats going on in turbines world/head.

Though not everyone agrees with all of the changes you may announce, you have a knack to make the information alittle more acceptable to most players(imo).

I say keep up the good work!

[Esserbe]

How about leaving the Barter Box around, maybe some where in the harbor. So those that have farmed ingredients can make new items for future characters. Not quite as good as a BTA item, but if you are willing to grind you can at least equip new characters.

Vordax

Definitely something to this effect if you're not going to let at least the non-epic upgraded items stay BTA.

[Bladedge]

I I think the reason everyone like Crystal Cove was not the talking kolbolds or fighting pirates but that the items were BtA, the player base didn't have to run one for every alt they had. Probably the only reason the player base was asking for the return of Crystal Cove as often as they did. Didn't see many asking for the return of Mabar Festival as often as CC but that can also be not every one like the huge raid were high lv characters was preferred and the items were BtC. But it looks like the player prefer BtA items has been lost to the Devs.


Thx MajMalphunktion for breaking the bad news except for giving us the "Opps we forgot, Surprise!" which has been done numerous times before on.

[Noelemahc]

Any chance the SLA targeting/aiming issue will be looked in to? I've never seen a response on that and been asking about it since update 9.

[Ravoc-DDO]

To make up for the 2 lost weeks, items should remain BTA this event period!

lol, I got neg rep for this?

[Jubbers]

As best I can tell no one, including me, likes sub-par leveling equipment - including epics from CC being BTC.

I spent a lot of time in the CC last time and had a great time knowing that everything could be passed around to the many different characters I have and work on, but never really finish. Think there is 1 Epic item in the group that is considered on par with other epics for a very finite job... epic calvery plate teir 3 being the only one.

Everything else is nice to have, but not really necessary. I was hoping the mabar event was going to be changed to the CC model as it's more fun, instead you screwed up both.

Keep screwing around with all the bound to character **** in the game and when anything slightly better comes along people will just start disappearing. Star Wars is comming out and playing that looks more fun as I haven't found a BTC item yet...

and when I do leave you can't have my stuff as it's all bound... LOL

[akiraproject24]

so my old gear wont change....this is a fair move. I will miss my mabar handwraps even if they are overpowered.

[Bladedge]

lol, I got neg rep for this?

If you did here is a +1 for a good idea.

[Elixxer]

Reading this makes me feel like I can see the future. It's cool