Bored with PL because of AO

[Huzzah]

I just got back in town after being gone for a few weeks, and already have 2 of each piece of top gear from the AO campaign drops. I only play my mage, but I was so bored I leveled an archer to 40 and already have top gear for him (and now don't play him again...).

What is up with the pink drop rate? Farming used to be my only carrot to keep playing. And I honestly hate leveling.

Can you at least put a button in that shoots fireworks, and which I can press after killing a boss, so that I can at least have some objective in this game? I like the AO fights, but am really bored with the entire game now (at least in swamps I was grinding for truly rare gear....)

Sorry for the gripe, but my suggestion is to fix the drop rate or provide a quest where we can earn some gold for clearing all board bosses or some type of carrot. Please make sure that AO2 has a longer replay value...please please please ?

[flaimdude]

But you can shoot fireworks! It's an emote!

[FluffNStuff]

But you can shoot fireworks! It's an emote!

With all the re rolls these changes to stats and armor are causing, I can't afford fireworks

[tjornan]

WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT? UR BORED?
i for one am bored too... spend most of my time on the forums

[Huzzah]

But you can shoot fireworks! It's an emote!

I meant some special fireworks for killing a boss. I want a friggin carrot, because right now, they might as well just give everyone the top end gear. It's not like it was a challenge to farm (which was previously the only "end-game" content available).

I figured I'd focus on bitching here about how boring the game is right now in the hopes the developers will change/add something to make me shut the hell up.

[Cascade]

Please watch you language.

[Rebel]

Just wondering, do certain drops have an even less percentage rate of dropping than other pink drops? Or do we just get unlucky with certain drops like Bayou Bow and Voodoo Doll and they just don't show up as much as the other pinks?

[Huzzah]

Please watch you language.

Which word offends you mom? If you feel tension because of the language I used, good. But there's not a word above that isn't available in any PG movie around. Please go language police somewhere else. Thanks

[Huzzah]

Just wondering, do certain drops have an even less percentage rate of dropping than other pink drops? Or do we just get unlucky with certain drops like Bayou Bow and Voodoo Doll and they just don't show up as much as the other pinks?

Drop rates were different for Swamps. Top end gear there was truly rare

[Cascade]

If you would like to read the rules it says "no cussing".

[Huzzah]

If you would like to read the rules it says "no cussing".

Considering the words I used are ok'd by the FCC for general prime time use, I would argue that I haven't "cussed." Please go cry somewhere else.

Thank you for bumping the thread though

[Cascade]

Dude seriously lay off noob.

[Huzzah]

Dude seriously lay off noob.

Sorry to rain on your supreme PL kingdom here on the forums, but I am enjoying your bitching too much

[Cascade]

Im done here I already argued with a kid today.

[Dizko]

Sorry to rain on your supreme PL kingdom here on the forums, but I am enjoying your bitching too much

Chill. There's no need. I know you know that.

Anyway, I agree, the drop rate is kinda mad.

[Huzzah]

Chill. There's no need. I know you know that.

Anyway, I agree, the drop rate is kinda mad.

I'm curious, did the new campaign roll out with the drop rate, or did they change it for some reason?

[Cascade]

Thanks diz, and I know I played from Lvl 3 to lvl 5 and I got like 3 pinks and other items in AO its not a challenge to get a pink anymore. I hope they change the drop rate in AO 2.

[Huzzah]

It's not just the drop rate of pinks. I'm sure they are trying to get more pinks in general to drop, since you want to increase the drop rates of better items as level increases.

What is really annoying is that I have multiple sets of the currently "best" level 40 pinks for all three classes, and have only been back for a few days. They might as well just give this gear away for free. Any player with a few thousand gold can now be completely geared out in the best AO gear (basically, any player who has played more than 1 day).

[Dizko]

Yea with you there Huzz.

Well, the drops in LE, and swamps were reasonably hard to get. The problem was that the hardcore players farmed the shizz out of the place. (Not that there is anything wrong with that). The Devs moved the bosses in an attempt to reduce farming but we always found a way around it.
However the drops remained reasonably rare. At least rare enough to be sold for 50, 100 sometimes 200k or more.

It seems that AO is just ridiculous for drops. It was actually far worse when first released. Bosses always dropped 2 or three pinks without fail. It's still pretty bad now, and the top end gear is selling for 30k max. (thoth etc).

[bmc85uk]

I think that so long as the game has the 'instant action' kinda feel to it, it's gonna be very hard to balance for casual and hardcore alike while the two are still expected to share the same dungeon/drop rate.

I like the idea suggested in another thread of 'nightmare' difficulty dungeons proposed in the roadmap having unique and extremely rare loot.

EDIT:

Tiny iPhone screen ruining my forum debating again, with regards to what Huzzah said for drop rates causing duplicate problems, something that'll be very hard to change while loot tables are shared by all bosses in an expansion, I remember suggesting in another post that bosses having specific loot mostly eradicates this problem as you know where to get the stuff you want to use/sell/twink with, spares and dupes then only appear (a)if you want them to or (b)if you're unlucky hunting down that last piece you want