General disappointment
To whom it may concern;
New player here, and I must say, I was initially impressed with the overall quality of this flash based game. Good graphics, good latency, and fun game play...what more could you ask for? After playing for two months, I realized the game has a huge flaw in it's economy. Leveling isn't difficult, I was able to reach the level cap in less than a week of casual play, around 12 hours total play time, and with relative ease. What do you do once you reach the level cap? Obviously, you begin the search for end game gear. Here is where the problem lies... the ONLY method of attaining this end game gear is by gambling, opening locked crates. That doesn't seem so awful at face value until you realize the insanely low drop rate of these items, drop rates so shamefully low, STS won't publish them. Of course I had to learn this first hand, by spending my money, time, and energy, only to come up empty handed. Starting with 3000 platinum, to open 200 grand locked crates of the watch, (+1200 platinum won from crates which opened 80 more crates). A total of 280 crates opened (3x item rolls per crate for a total of 840 chances) ...0 arcane items, 2 mythic items (fang of fen, sorc armor), 29 platinum prizes, 115 legendary items, 694 gold payouts (511 2K gold payouts, worst prize).
Arcane loot chance: 0%
Mythic loot chance: .25%
Everything else was total garbage, 99% of the legendary items didn't have the proper primary stat.
Summary:
Farm zones for a 1% chance of looting a "Locked Grand Crate", then open that crate for a .25% chance at good loot.
OR;
You can save up your gold for a FEW YEARS an then you just MIGHT be able to find a player who will sell his arcane maul for the low, low price of only 20 million gold.
Honestly, I would expect a game to be gratifying, instead I feel like I just lost big at the casino on rigged slot machines.
Does anyone else feel extremely frustrated, or used? I certainly can't be the only one who had such a unpleasant experience, can I?
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