Which epic will become buyable next?

[Swish]

Yeah fine on triggered final mobs like the rogue epic... you can sell loot rights to the lazy players and do it when you want.

CT and pals don't play that game though.

[pasi]

They don't, but those epics are very rarely sold. Practically, you're talking about the sales of 4 epics.

I guess the difference is that it doesn't matter to me how other people get their gear. I don't care if some rogue sold 500 bear asses to get his Ragebringer or asked someone already killing General to kill another General. Then again, I'm the kind of guy who donates 1k for a port from EC to Lavastorm. No pixel police here.

[Pheer]

might see some level 1 SK epics when the fear revamp goes through provided the last turn in doesnt get changed to the coin version before then

[Fireapple]

Ranger epic is MQ-able through 99% of it, just have to forage and make the mixture themselves. But good luck getting Inny and VS stone, would probably cost near 1 million plat for a full ranger MQ right now.

As soon as VS remains are added and Fear revamp happens it will probably become a common MQ

[coki]

I like how you can get 2 manastones (doesn't drop anymore) for the price of 1 Bone-clasped girdle(still drops) at the moment or 3 manastones for 1 AoN, kinda funny

[Hollywood]

Originally Posted by pasi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Getting rid of MQs only means loot rights just get sold instead.

What do you think is one of the underlying issues that supports MQ creating problems? Looting scenarios.

I've been in at least ten KC groups with someone's monk, where a Pawbuster pipe drops and the group members take it upon themselves to roll, because it's fair game loot, knowing that they can go off and make a profit from it.

Look at Jboots. The AC isn't broken any more in terms of spawn location. Therefore the difficulty has gone up and it's reflected in the price, which has now doubled.

This alone has reduced the amount of people trying to camp him. Now remove MQ and that number goes down even more. He loses his attractiveness as a source for a lucrative commodity.
Anyone who wanted Jboots, would have to bring their own character to loot the item. And if this means bringing along a few high level friend to help, then that's what's great about having help.

We're not interested in penalizing people for sourcing their own means of help, whether a friend or a whole guild.

Even when entire guilds camp and sell 'loot rights' it's still be a better and more player driven, player interactive system than MQ - which is faceless afterthought to try and reduce the difficulty of the game, which was designed in the first place to be .. difficult!

[Portsche]

Originally Posted by Sirken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why would anyone buy their epic now that any guild on the server can kill high end mobs?

Very good question.


However, for those still wanting to purchase their epic:

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd sell a full Druid epic... Minus VS / Fay...

I'll supply the VS / Fay pieces~

[nall]

Originally Posted by Sirken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why would anyone buy their epic now that any guild on the server can kill high end mobs?

well lets see, because there is such a backlog on VS that Druids/rangers wont be seeing their epic for 6 months or more or perhaps STILL till the velious patch that makes Venril sathir Remains pop in game?

There are STILL posts all over the EC tunnel thread where people looking for the VS stone for good size plat amounts and almost no one has one for sale (except TMO / IB .. which want your 1st and 2nd born.... 2 arms and a 3rd leg for an MQ)

Next, FFA VS is without a doubt almost always still killed by IB/FE/Tmo.

so that's leaves 2 spawns a month for class R. which the guilds on rotation and take turns to be fair. (not complaining there) After you rotate thru all the Class R guilds we get one VS every 2 - 3 months..

and finally, of the VS kill(s) that we do the SOB isn't guaranteed to drop an epic piece (druid or otherwise) ... for example.. last kill we didnt get any ANY epic piece at all. just two pally legs.. /wrists.

[pasi]

Originally Posted by Pheer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

might see some level 1 SK epics when the fear revamp goes through provided the last turn in doesnt get changed to the coin version before then

The coolness factor is there, but there's way better stuff that's easier to acquire around that time. Zlandicar Sword probably won't be more than 40k 6 months into Velious. Then, if you got the means, there are so many fucking Knight only weapons in Velious that will rot.

Hard to compete with Innoruuk's Curse in the looks department though.