Now I'm the type of player that will do all quests I can [except repeatables until I cap]. This means I dont much care about the reward in general, if its a quest i will do it.

The problem is that alot of people see BAMs as to much hassle for to little reward. Getting party to do BAMs past 30 and especially past 40 has become a joke. No one is interested and if poeople are interested you only end up with half a party missing either a tank or a healer, or only having 1 dps.

The thing alot of people seem to miss is that questing alone is more then enough exp to keep you leveling. But if people are going to keep skipping quests thats when it gets slow.... but also at at 56 I did have 21 BAMs quests still to do, so im now soloing them which defeats the point of them really.

What do people think can be done to fix the risk vs reward problem people have with bothering to do the BAMs.

BAM quests are rather joke. Quest gives like 6-7G and 600k exp for killing 3 BAMs when single BAM if soloed gives 400k exp, more gold and more loot. As a warrior I can solo any bam of my level in around 5 min.

Is the OP on a PVE server? People on Jagged Coast kill BAMs all the time.

Solo'ing or group killing BAMs is good experience, nothing needs to be fixed.

Soloing BAMs is about the best PvE gameplay the game has to offer (at lower levels at least). If you skip out on that...

And since they can be solo'd you don't need a full party. Even just two people makes most even-levelled BAMs quick and easy.

Simple. EME needs to fix the economy by cutting the cost of everything by 50-60% or triple the gold drops/quest reward gold.

All BAM quests should provide something that is needed, perhaps a selection of two items, BOTH Yellow.

Lastly, there needs to be forced grouping. FORCED GROUPING. This game is becoming a flashy version of the single player MMO SWTOR.

No credit for the kills, no reward, kill all you like, but you don't get jack unless you're in a group. Done. They can even have a cute little pop up message that says "this is an MMO, it's not designed to be done solo, enjoy your stay."

Quote: IVoXI on 05/11/2012, 04:22 AM - viewlolno

Anyway, it obviously is designed to be done solo. Solo a BAM. Now solo an instance. Observe the difference.

BAM quests should pay more. No point doing them unless you're out of regular quests.

Quote: IVoXI on 05/11/2012, 04:22 AM - view

Absolutely not.

I'll take forced grouping when there's a player base and community to support it. In other words, never.

And furthermore, if this wasn't designed for single player, then the solo quests wouldn't outnumber group quests 100 to 1.

I spend more time with other people in TERA than any other MMO i've played...whether PvPing, questing with friends because it's faster, doing BAMs or instances.


I find this game is better as a group game not solo...we don't need forced grouping, the mechanics allow for grouping to be more beneficial, so it happens on it's own, especially if you have friends, you'll always level together.