Silosobi
Dalayan Pious Diety
I'm wondering if a Dev or someone can clarify whether it is okay to farm turuj trash just for tomes? Similar things happen through lots of other raid zones, prison gems, thaz aug/essences, any archaic dropping zone come to mind as other raid trash that gets farmed by often less than full raids. The difference with turuj is that the trash respawns if it is not killed within a timer, or gets reset at the alcove.
Opuses, unfortunately, have become a core part of player progression, and with their entirely random drops it is not uncommon in FWF to see people who have consistently raided the zone for over a year that are still missing core class opi. Farming trash just for this purpose would be a tedious task since there are no sure-fire mobs, and bosses in turuj are mostly easy, so the low opus chance combined with boss loot from each tribe makes for a balance of risk/reward. Just killing trash has generally seemed like a very poor time investment in the past to us, but since recently we have been running out of content to do in our ~12 hours a week of raiding, I was thinking that if we could clear a tribe's trash a few extra times when we have nothing left to do that week it would give us something to do and slightly reduce the issue that is we will be farming this zone indefinitely because of opuses - long after everything rots, i guarentee every guild will still compete for the zone due to how powerful opuses are and they are so random that no amount of time means you get what you want/need.
Something I have been in favor of for a while now, which is related to above issue, would be implimenting a rare, difficult to obtain method for gaining an opus of your choice. Maybe if Rujik had a 100% droprate, sharnree had a 50%, and all other turuj bosses had a 20% chance to drop a token that can be turned in for any opus 1, or two can be turned in for any opus 2. That would add only a small number of opuses in total, and the overall distribution would remain random, but it would allow players/guilds to fill in the core tomes that are missed due to bad luck.
These are really two separate issues, and I think the first is a lot more likely since its really just a policy clarification. The second idea I think is something direly needed, but I don't really expect to see it anytime soon. We might have to wait until new guilds are trying to do turuj, but fwf/cw/exo all have it locked hard just for tomes.
Opuses, unfortunately, have become a core part of player progression, and with their entirely random drops it is not uncommon in FWF to see people who have consistently raided the zone for over a year that are still missing core class opi. Farming trash just for this purpose would be a tedious task since there are no sure-fire mobs, and bosses in turuj are mostly easy, so the low opus chance combined with boss loot from each tribe makes for a balance of risk/reward. Just killing trash has generally seemed like a very poor time investment in the past to us, but since recently we have been running out of content to do in our ~12 hours a week of raiding, I was thinking that if we could clear a tribe's trash a few extra times when we have nothing left to do that week it would give us something to do and slightly reduce the issue that is we will be farming this zone indefinitely because of opuses - long after everything rots, i guarentee every guild will still compete for the zone due to how powerful opuses are and they are so random that no amount of time means you get what you want/need.
Something I have been in favor of for a while now, which is related to above issue, would be implimenting a rare, difficult to obtain method for gaining an opus of your choice. Maybe if Rujik had a 100% droprate, sharnree had a 50%, and all other turuj bosses had a 20% chance to drop a token that can be turned in for any opus 1, or two can be turned in for any opus 2. That would add only a small number of opuses in total, and the overall distribution would remain random, but it would allow players/guilds to fill in the core tomes that are missed due to bad luck.
These are really two separate issues, and I think the first is a lot more likely since its really just a policy clarification. The second idea I think is something direly needed, but I don't really expect to see it anytime soon. We might have to wait until new guilds are trying to do turuj, but fwf/cw/exo all have it locked hard just for tomes.
