So (I love posts that start with ‘So…’) before yesterday, and not counting any Living World things that might be going on, or working on my monthly, or doing something ‘specific’, like leveling up a character, a typical ‘daily’ for me might consist of:
1. The Daily (+ extras to squeeze any achievement point I can get, as I don’t care for SAB and I’m never going to get that last diving point or all the jump puzzles)
2. Gathering (low on lower level mats; Ori and Anc in Frostgorge + any standard wood/ore I might need from there)
3. Maybe some Champ farming in Frostgorge (I just do the 4 up in the upper corner in rotation, as I can’t afford to waypoint that much and I seem to zone a little slow and get behind trying to keep up with everyone that way any how). I’ll try to do 10 rotations, which gets me 30 boxes and 10 bags. Some days I skip this b/c I just don’t have time.
4. World Events. I liked to do Teq, kitten, Claw, Maw, SB, Wurm and FE.
Now, I think the new Tequila is great. I tried it once. It was early on, haven’t been back. I died once, which was a bit expensive compared to the reward I got (iirc, I could be wrong as to what I got out of that bag). I think it’s going to be a lot of fun for a lot of people, and maybe me again some day, once it has settled in and I do some more reading and find my place in the fight and learn it.
What my concern is, is that it’s different. It’s no longer this thing that you can throw in with some other things and get done relatively quickly, and get some guaranteed yellows. If they redo all of these (or even the other 2 dragons), then that leaves me with 4, or ‘no’ old-style World Events to do, with that guaranteed yellow.
Why is that yellow so important?
Well, salvaging for ectos. I still do it. Maybe I’m a dinosaur, I’m not sure.
I seem to get pretty good returns too. Far better than saving up money and actually ‘buying’ them on the AH. I ‘never’ buy something if I can find it. Buying is expensive.
With the guaranteed yellows, I’d sell the weapons (they fetch more money) and always salvage the armor for ectos.
The champ runs don’t seem to work all that well. I don’t get many yellows out of the boxes, certainly not guaranteed, and very subject to the RNG, and we all know how nasty he can be. I’m ‘lucky’ if I get one yellow out of those 40 boxes and bags for my 10 cycles in the upper corner of Fg.
And I guess that is my concern. Time + guaranteed yellows.
Are they going to change ‘all’ of them?
Will we get some sort of replacement events to use for our guaranteed daily yellows?
Are those just going to go away? On purpose?
I tried to think of it from the perspective of “well you can make so much money farming you can buy all the ectos you want”, but I’m not sure the math works out all too well on that, especially if you consider 2-3 ectos you get from salvaging (which seems to happen a lot). Of course, I haven’t actually ‘done’ the math, this is just ‘math feeling’, if you will.
Or, am I just crazy and it’s not a problem because of (_______) and (_______).
Oh, and I don’t do dungeons and fractals. That won’t change, until I need my dungeons things from Arah for my Legendary (if I ever get my precursor), then I’ll suck it up, but that’s it.
Thanks.