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Dalayan Elder
After coming back to the game, and seeing some of the great QOL changes (home gate, erimal spells, charm credits, separate vah QP dropping from tarlisha etc.) and thought, why stop there? There are a number of things, even dating back to 8 years ago when I last played, that make a whole heck of a lot of sense given the recent direction of other changes.
First, Runic 2 - currently, the pages only drop in Spires off bosses. Outside of niche spells (ritual, dark scribing, absolution etc.) this is the only spell where there are no alternative sources. An easy change to me would be to make these a rare drop off Kaezulian mobs throughout Ikisith (maybe with scaling drop rate % based on difficulty).
Second, gleaming steel sword (vah) - this only drops off ED maps. Nobody wants to do ED maps because there is literally only 1 item that anyone wants (and it's the sword that has a low drop rate). Contrast this to 10 years ago when there were active guilds throughout the tiers and you could muster up a PUG raid. Easy solution would be to put this quest drop on well-illustrated maps (they are in the same zones as ED maps, just a much much higher difficulty). Putting sword on the loot table (higher drop rate than ED makes sense) would certainly propel them into something guilds do actively instead of when there is nothing up to kill (which is rare these days). Alternatively, you could make this a 100% flagged drop on ED maps.
Lastly, rohk augs - this is a perfect example of content that you have to do over and over and over on your toon until the day you die or the server gets unplugged. These augs should be flagged as quest augs so you can remove them and add to your new gear instead of every guild that reaches/passes tier 10 farming this mob forever until your eyes bleed. Maybe make it cost plat or bits or some other farmable component.
This is just my suggestion but I think the playerbase will generally be in overwhelming support of these changes, this is also meant to be a discussion so if you think of a better solution or have other ideas for high impact QOL changes to make this server better, by all means.
First, Runic 2 - currently, the pages only drop in Spires off bosses. Outside of niche spells (ritual, dark scribing, absolution etc.) this is the only spell where there are no alternative sources. An easy change to me would be to make these a rare drop off Kaezulian mobs throughout Ikisith (maybe with scaling drop rate % based on difficulty).
Second, gleaming steel sword (vah) - this only drops off ED maps. Nobody wants to do ED maps because there is literally only 1 item that anyone wants (and it's the sword that has a low drop rate). Contrast this to 10 years ago when there were active guilds throughout the tiers and you could muster up a PUG raid. Easy solution would be to put this quest drop on well-illustrated maps (they are in the same zones as ED maps, just a much much higher difficulty). Putting sword on the loot table (higher drop rate than ED makes sense) would certainly propel them into something guilds do actively instead of when there is nothing up to kill (which is rare these days). Alternatively, you could make this a 100% flagged drop on ED maps.
Lastly, rohk augs - this is a perfect example of content that you have to do over and over and over on your toon until the day you die or the server gets unplugged. These augs should be flagged as quest augs so you can remove them and add to your new gear instead of every guild that reaches/passes tier 10 farming this mob forever until your eyes bleed. Maybe make it cost plat or bits or some other farmable component.
This is just my suggestion but I think the playerbase will generally be in overwhelming support of these changes, this is also meant to be a discussion so if you think of a better solution or have other ideas for high impact QOL changes to make this server better, by all means.
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