Exactly. However, they would need to remove set bonuses and make heroics better than the typical dungeon set. Furthermore, they would need to add random stat rolls to all gear with the most variation in heroic and fabled. I don't think HC is committed enough to do that; they seem to think that dungeon sets should be their end-game armor for some reason, without any sort of stat variation.
In 99% of MMOrpg Games gear which requires a group to get is best, which is how I think it should be. If you want to play by yourself and get best gear. I suggest you try and find a single player game where you only have to take care of yourself and what you want.
I play online games for interaction with other people. (And I mean, If I want to play on my own i'll find a single player game) This is MMOrpg (Watch the part MMO) Which means this is a game which is focussed on creating group content. And no i'm not the only one thinking like this.
I do understand that they should add extra things to do. (Making grinding more rewardable) Make more Solo content but saying stuff like "The gear you get by yourself should be best ingame" Which is complete bullshit if we're taking into account that this is an MMORPG.
I think a few days of letting people say which monsters they grind on end game could already make it so that they can add bonusses for example for killing 500 of X monster for 3 random glims (again example) Making it so people who love to grind have a goal to grind because now it's just kill kill for what? Exp ranking? I personally always enjoyed grinding (When i was still ranger) SEE SUGGESTIONS DOWN BELOW
Because now it seems like "They're jogres with no social skills and want to be left alone" (Some grinders are tho, Ain't gonna call names )
Also I personally feel that Grinders get a huge middle finger of HCS when they grind. Cus no matter how many times you say "We didn't change lootdrop" That's complete bullsh*t (Look I learned HUAHAUAHUH no modify my thread nobs) Everyone feels/noticed the change. Which isn't necessarely bad but when you nerf something. You should add something in return. Might be stupid mathematics but still Because you think x = 7 and x shouldn't be 7 you can't just change one part of the equation without changing the other part. Because it changes the entire equation. Less drops? Make it easier/less hp to kill them?
(Meaning, you can drop lootrate yes but increase spawnrate then?)
Summary:
About solo content: When you nerf something, Make sure you improve something else (Like with the despair nerf you nerfed it leaving a gap which was hard to fill up, Great work on Impale tho, that's a changes which already helps alot, we're not there yet but when it's good I'll say it also) This way you'll make sure you don't piss off an entire part of your playerbase.
Suggestions: Add Rewards to grinding?
Destroying tasks (I don't want to farm potatoes etc I rather kill stuff for money)
LVL 30
-Kill 500 adera barren goblins = (5 Random flawed gems)
-Kill 500 Crimsons lvl 28-29 = (5 random flawed gems)
Lvl 35
-Kill 500 owlbears in Blossom ridge (5 random fair gems)
-Kill 500 owlbears in nasaroth (5 random fair gems)
-Kill 500 landfall mobs (5 random fair gems)
Lvl 40
-Kill 800 lvl 41 Goblins (3 random Glimmering gems)
-Kill 800 lvl 42-43 temple of sands mobs (3 Random Glimmering Gems)
Lvl 45
AHUHAUAHAU TARANUKA
Kill 350 boss temple mobs for (3 random glimmering gems)
Kill 800 regular mobs (3 random glimmering gems)
This way the grinding people have an extra incentive which will only benefit the real hardcore grinders in this game (Cus not everyone can spam 800 mobs for 3 bonus gems) And again possibilities are endless with this. Even extra fusion powder etc would be nice
This ain't that hard changes as you're already tracking the mobs you kill. So I think it should be something that would already help grinders alot without adding weeks worth of content (Could be wrong)
TOC
I didn't play when ToC was "HUGE EXPLOIT OF DOOMNATION TRIPLE ZERO ALPHA MANY GEMS" (Bullsh*t anyway as you shouldtry to buy rubies/onyx nowadays) So I can't imagine it beeing as bad as some say it was. Why not making that Solo'able and a bit worse rewarding than it used to be at it's prime? (Again didn't play during that time so can't really say much about it)
REROLL TOKENS
Another suggestion about this could be "Reroll tokens" Adding some kind of token into the monster loots drops (Like fusion powder)
Which would allow you to reroll the rolls on items you get. Make them tradeable so people who grind can sell them to people who do dungeons. (Make them 5-10x more rare than fusion powder). Again making solo grinders "Needed" for the community and respected for what they do. Or people who grind can max out their rolls alot easier making grinding another way to improve gear (ComradeLewis might like this type of change as it will lower his time in dungeons and make him able to grind, Same goes for other players who play like CL) Once again i'm not saying that playstyle is bad I just don't think it should be the main focus for gear in a MMORPG
And for those people who're still like "NO THEY SHOULD ADD NEW SOLO CONTENT"
How about you propose some stuff yourself before bashing on them not creating content. They're a small team. How about they use their knowledge about the game creating the content ideas we (Who have knowledge of the game and how it's played) provide for them (They can still shift and finetune) But this way they don't really have to waste time on adding content that won't be used and would need days of extra work to make it worth using (YES TA I'm talking about you)
Ps. Yes I'm guilty of bashing alot also (To addicted to chest bashing/banging so that explains, I like to bash things)
Because the idea of TA was good but it needed alot of feedback to make it work. (but that's off topic) So i'll make a post about that later. So back to solo content.
They should use the content they have so far and maybe add dept to the current content as I guess modifying is alot easier than creating.
And if you don't aggree with this. idc I'm alpha anyway (Joking if you don't aggree tell me why you don't aggree don't just be like "Nope nope, nob idea"
Edited by Alphamale, 12 June 2014 - 19:13.