Regarding the Rarity of Items in the Planar Content
Hey gang,
I wanted to touch on the rarity and difficulty of the elite end-game Planar content (collectively Planar Tombs, Planar Arena and the tie in to Elite Tindirin). The design of the Planar content is to be something to grind on. It's not intended for you to roll in, grab the loot in a weekend and then ask "What's next?" Sure, it might still not be in the best spot for that (we have some more tuning coming on that front), but that's what it is intended to be.
We have the sprawling Winter Event going into Public Testing now and looking to go live after that. Planar stuffs is something you can start now, work on it or Winter over Dec. and still give something for people to work toward in Jan.
Hopefully that helps you understand what we were thinking.
Respectfully yours,
Samhayne
Regarding the Rarity of Items in the Planar Content
Here is my perspective...
I have all the ingredients for the amulet...
150 teeth
3 cleansed essence
60 more planar essence
I have not exchanged my teeth for a bar yet but that is a technicality.
I have run well over 100 arena runs, maybe 150 by now. I have over 30 useless boss essences. I am honestly getting burnt out on arena, that can't be a good thing.
I do not want to purchase anything but Ankh and Elixers for the Amulet. I want to farm it. I'm getting discouraged because you keep tweaking the drop rate so I never know if it's worth running or not.
I would think drops would simply be a random number generator but that doesn't seem to be the case as Sam says several factors are being looked at. Other than a random roll of the 10,000 sided dice what factors are there?
As for tombs these are good. As for the chests I did get one but at 1m I'll always sell because chances are low ill loot armor and the armor isn't really better than Mythic anyway.
I have all the essence I need so I'll be trashing the extra soon. So why should I keep running tombs? To get a pet you will nerf anyway? No thanks.
I'll keep running arena but I need to hear they are dropping and not just a myth of a mythic item.
Overall content is great, yo yo drop rates are far less than ideal.
Thrindal