CAPTUN AUSTRALIA
Grandmaster
The key to changes is constant whining, so as seen in the "What would you like to see thread":
I saw a lot of people asking for mount fatigue.
As much as i hate chasing blue ***** factioners for 15 minutes straight all over the map (especially with my >300 ping), i think that this would be a bad idea.
I'm all for stamina loss, but no for mount fatigue.
What a lot of these people don't realise is the gm runners on this shard (mainly vets), will simply void this by having mount/feed macros for pets, virtually making the said change useless, whereas the 'casual' gamer will get ass fucked when using an ethy, or not utilizing such a macro.
As for changes, i could go on and on, but i'll keep it short and name a few.
1. For over a year i've been harping on about a MOTM for 'common' spawn, i.e Air Elemental month or Titan month. During this month, said mobs have a "x%" chance for limited time only rares - there can be quite a few, ranging from a high % to a very low % for exceptional items. This kind of change means every type of gamer is catered towards - casual, hardcore pvm, pks and pvpers alike. I think over 6 months@@Shane mentioned a titan month with hair dye? but it never got implemented. Again though, the type of rares have to be desirable. Things that could be put on, footwear, new coloured statues, new hue cloth yards, hued deco items, hair/beard dye, etc
**EDIT, what would even be cooler is consumable items that only drop from these: YOU COULD BRING BACK HIT LIGHTNING, GHOULS TOUCH, FEEBLEMIND ETC TO WEAPONS on these mobs (lowish chance of course, and obviously they have charges like back in the days). I'm sure some zerg stun mages will cry, but in this day and age, why are 95+% of pvp chars zerg stun mages if dexers are so great? This could even be done to current bosses - ie RDA's and Champ bosses.
2. Gold sink vendor - add in a certain cloth hue which will be available for "1 month or 2months only", never to return. This could also be used for a MOTM drop.
3. Mounts to booty island. I went there when it came out, pked like 5 numpties with EV's on turbo charge mode (i was smart enough to dispel the ones sent on me, they wern't so fortunate), since, i have found no mounts ********, and just hinders gameplay. Also make it so u can recall there (if you can't already).
4. I can dream, but i'd love for the staff to remove ALL auto target macros (besides targ self/last target). Honestly, the zergling stun mage squads out gets tiresome. I'm sure i'll hear the usual rhetoric on how 'skillful' mages are, yet 99% of these clowns can't even kill anyone unless it is 2+v 1 with stun, let alone survive solo.
5. Like whirlpools, i'd like it if RDA's had a system message to let you know how many are actually 'active' at any one time, that way you don't go searching for a hour when there is nothing around. Back when i used to do them, the 'active' groups had them on timers, which kind of fucks the casual gamer.
I'm sure there is plenty more i could rant on about, might edit later.
**EDIT
6. Bod changes - obviously a detailed one would be difficult, given staff resources, BUT an easy right away change could be as simple as this: Low x% chance for say deco items (tapestries, brown bear rugs, even anvils etc) have a shot of being fallon, PW and blaze... Likewise for cloth drops, each tier has a low x% chance for new hued cloth - there are a shit ton of hues to use.
@Shane @Adam @halygon
I saw a lot of people asking for mount fatigue.
As much as i hate chasing blue ***** factioners for 15 minutes straight all over the map (especially with my >300 ping), i think that this would be a bad idea.
I'm all for stamina loss, but no for mount fatigue.
What a lot of these people don't realise is the gm runners on this shard (mainly vets), will simply void this by having mount/feed macros for pets, virtually making the said change useless, whereas the 'casual' gamer will get ass fucked when using an ethy, or not utilizing such a macro.
As for changes, i could go on and on, but i'll keep it short and name a few.
1. For over a year i've been harping on about a MOTM for 'common' spawn, i.e Air Elemental month or Titan month. During this month, said mobs have a "x%" chance for limited time only rares - there can be quite a few, ranging from a high % to a very low % for exceptional items. This kind of change means every type of gamer is catered towards - casual, hardcore pvm, pks and pvpers alike. I think over 6 months@@Shane mentioned a titan month with hair dye? but it never got implemented. Again though, the type of rares have to be desirable. Things that could be put on, footwear, new coloured statues, new hue cloth yards, hued deco items, hair/beard dye, etc
**EDIT, what would even be cooler is consumable items that only drop from these: YOU COULD BRING BACK HIT LIGHTNING, GHOULS TOUCH, FEEBLEMIND ETC TO WEAPONS on these mobs (lowish chance of course, and obviously they have charges like back in the days). I'm sure some zerg stun mages will cry, but in this day and age, why are 95+% of pvp chars zerg stun mages if dexers are so great? This could even be done to current bosses - ie RDA's and Champ bosses.
2. Gold sink vendor - add in a certain cloth hue which will be available for "1 month or 2months only", never to return. This could also be used for a MOTM drop.
3. Mounts to booty island. I went there when it came out, pked like 5 numpties with EV's on turbo charge mode (i was smart enough to dispel the ones sent on me, they wern't so fortunate), since, i have found no mounts ********, and just hinders gameplay. Also make it so u can recall there (if you can't already).
4. I can dream, but i'd love for the staff to remove ALL auto target macros (besides targ self/last target). Honestly, the zergling stun mage squads out gets tiresome. I'm sure i'll hear the usual rhetoric on how 'skillful' mages are, yet 99% of these clowns can't even kill anyone unless it is 2+v 1 with stun, let alone survive solo.
5. Like whirlpools, i'd like it if RDA's had a system message to let you know how many are actually 'active' at any one time, that way you don't go searching for a hour when there is nothing around. Back when i used to do them, the 'active' groups had them on timers, which kind of fucks the casual gamer.
I'm sure there is plenty more i could rant on about, might edit later.
**EDIT
6. Bod changes - obviously a detailed one would be difficult, given staff resources, BUT an easy right away change could be as simple as this: Low x% chance for say deco items (tapestries, brown bear rugs, even anvils etc) have a shot of being fallon, PW and blaze... Likewise for cloth drops, each tier has a low x% chance for new hued cloth - there are a shit ton of hues to use.
@Shane @Adam @halygon
