It's been a while since I'm done with the game, got most of the gear I want (PvE and PvP), beating bosses isn't challenging anymore and lockdown is boring 95% of the time; pretty much I only have been waiting for new content. Crimson Hammer came out and it was cheap enough to drop a few coins and play it. I was expecting for new content I would be farming just like everyone does with FSC.
* I heard Operation Crimson Hammer was going to have 3 levels of difficulty, in reality is the same mission but with different tier based enemies. I was hoping for at least 3 different missions (making this more oriented for end game players).
* Yes, I liked much of the content and design, its clearly not just go and kill everything (like the boss fight); also fun to discovery tricks to make it easy.
* I was really hopping for good rewards for completing this mission, but is really hard to make profit of it:
** The unique material can't be sold or traded (yes OOO, I know you want really people playing your shiny content).
** Reward weapons can't be unbound (therefor can't be sold), so if I want a nice UV on them I can't get it from someone else, I must roll on it and with my luck, I'll get slime low 4 times in a row.
** The only thing you can sell is the mask, which already have two statuses resistance, so its already good enough without any UV.
The reason people plays FSC over and over, its because you can make a decent profit in 5 depths, around 7k cr (10k cr if you do 10 runs and vendor the ancient gear from tokens) and it's easier to heat gear (for people who likes doing a run in 40 minutes). Crimson Hammer drops 6k cr and you don't get tokens for an extra income, maybe 5* materials to resell, everything else is bound/unique.
So will I be running Crimson Hammer over and over, just like FSC? probably not. I already got my mask and equipped some hair on it... so I don't have reasons to keep returning other than help a friend or burn mist just because. Was it worth 4 bucks? may be... but I'm already done with it, next time if you want me to pay for content gimme something I'd like to run over and over.
Anyway, Mass Effect 3 is just days away, good luck with the raging community over the so-called paywall content.
The past 4 runs of Operation Crimson Hammer in T3 that I did gave me about 6900 crowns. Decent enough in my opinion. It's a nice change from FSC.