Endgame needs to be less punishing to ATTEMPT

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It seems to me that En Masse has removed many features in this game that would help soften the huge death penalty in this game. Removing eggs, removing ways of transforming useless crystals into something useful, seems to me like an attempt to get players to do MORE grinding and doing less hardmodes.

I figured if anything, the NA version should be more accessible.

I don't know if it's just an attempt to slow down progress or what, but there are much better ways of doing that.

It's just not fair that when we're just starting, every attempt at hardmode costs a fortune. Mutinous crystals sell for 350g+. The barrier for attempting hard modes really needs to be lowered, a lot. At this point, normal modes are painfully boring and easy, hard modes are great fun, very difficult with many wipes as we are just starting, but too expensive to attempt for a while.
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Yeah the wipes are very expensive with the ridiculous price of crystals.


The boxes would increase the value of useless crystals(5-8g perhaps?) and lower the price of the expensive crystals making a much better balance between the valuable and worthless.
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Why remove the eggs anyway? There is honestly no reason to have done so.
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Removal of pets was about the only meaningful removal they did. Everything else was hastily removed and nothing was done to balance what was left.... Called it 'Westernization'
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PearlGore on 06/21/2012, 06:09 PM - view
Why remove the eggs anyway? There is honestly no reason to have done so.


YEAH! Even when they GIVE reasons, they're not REAL reasons, just FAKE ones. Like, when they tried to support farming BAMs for crystals, or give alchemy the resource for making pots. Those reasons? DON'T EXIST, NEVER DID!

Now, seriously, the issue lies largely in that some OTHER items that came from eggs were not placed in the game elsewhere. People got USED to eggs as crystal resources, and refused to play in the market FOR them. This also allowed people greater flexibility to do high end content with the BEST possible crystals and thus risk death LESS. In many ways, this created a felse sense of safety that has been removed. Now, people feel that running in crystals less than the topmost tier is useless, and reasons to kick from dungeons (despite the content being defeatable in Concachs).
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Hey, we want you to know that we are aware of the fact that the crystals are a bit more difficult to come by than we'd like and we are thinking of various ways we can improve the situation even if it's not a permanent solution. Something might happen in the near future that would help. ;)
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I would actually laugh if this entire game was a big troll just to make people want to play GW2...
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I do hope this is significant and will lower prices eventually to something like 80g for the best ones (that's still quite a lot since you lose them frequently when attempting new content).

Aside from the archer bugs, this is the one thing that's holding back PvE enjoyability for me.
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Minea on 06/21/2012, 07:04 PM - view
Hey, we want you to know that we are aware of the fact that the crystals are a bit more difficult to come by than we'd like and we are thinking of various ways we can improve the situation even if it's not a permanent solution. Something might happen in the near future that would help. ;)


As I've talked to many Support people about.... PUT THE BOXES BACK!!! Fixes Crystal problem and its already in the game. Just bring it back! Oh and its going to fix all the crafting threads!!!!!!! omg amazing idea! Also, you can multiply Refined Alkahest so it would help enchanting. Just do it devs it hurts no one and helps everyone.
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IMercury on 06/21/2012, 08:07 PM - view
Minea on 06/21/2012, 07:04 PM
Hey, we want you to know that we are aware of the fact that the crystals are a bit more difficult to come by than we'd like and we are thinking of various ways we can improve the situation even if it's not a permanent solution. Something might happen in the near future that would help. ;)


As I've talked to many Support people about.... PUT THE BOXES BACK!!! Fixes Crystal problem and its already in the game. Just bring it back! Oh and its going to fix all the crafting threads!!!!!!! omg amazing idea! Also, you can multiply Refined Alkahest so it would help enchanting. Just do it devs it hurts no one and helps everyone.


The proper thing for them to do was to improve the success chance rather than remove them from the game... would not fix crafting though as the major flaw in crafting is the fact that enmasse has REMOVED the mats required to craft T12 gear and T13 gear mats can only be found in hardmodes and requires a ton of them... But a good idea nonetheless