If Elite orbs dropped as much as the current Eternal rate, and Eternals dropped as much as the current Elite rate; OR the current system we have in place where Elites have low drop rates and Eternals drop all the time?
What would be worse?
Fri, 09/12/2014 - 14:18
Fri, 09/12/2014 - 14:46
#2
I think the current way is pretty terrible
Players are hit with the 4* requirements and cannot proceed to tier 3, where a lot of the money is. With full 4* equipment, they can take on the content of all of tier 3.
Also, since many players spend so much time in stratum 6 (FSC), the droprate change wouldn't be too big of a game-changer.
I mean, this is coming from someone with over 200 bound eternal orbs, so I might be pretty biased, but still.
Fri, 09/12/2014 - 15:28
#3
My opinion on my question
Elite's cost less than Eternals (from Kozma) thus if we were forced to buy them then that would be horrible.
High level players grind the deep levels and find eternals free (that cuts a large hunk out of crafting 5star items), plus you are grinding deep levels and the CR payout is pretty nice.
The problem is not the orbs but the fact that 5star weapons at LVL1 (up to LVL 7 I believe) deal less damage than 4star weapons at LVL10. It is the Radiants we should truly be concerned about.
The current orb drops for 4 and 5 star orbs is great, the fire crystals follow the opposite where 4stars are common but 5stars aren't.
Of course if the situation was reversed we would have excessive Radiants but no shinings, and we would have tons of 4star items but could hardly ever get the orbs to craft a 5.
Well eternals are like one time use thing; once you get your 5* in, your saddled with that weapon.
People would probably prefer to have more 4* craftings.
On the other hand it would also probably cause users to buy more 5* orbs from supply depot.
I think the real overarching problem though is most endgame content is set in T3, so naturally its where we spend the most time collecting orbs.
There could be more 3*-4* orb related stratum conent for people to grind on, but we already have 2 bosses there.
It's a true catch 22. I just wish I could get rid of my 55 eternal orbs.