rsclark

Yes, as that would make it follow a similar progression to trials - still slower, but similar.

In trials, you have the fast, but random "pray for a rare" method and the slow, safety net "emp" method.

In the itrials, the emp method is time gated, but the slot machine method has no limit. You get one pull of the handle every time you run a trial. For DA, they time gated both (in addition to the dozen other ways DA is inferior.)

Yes, because we pay for them.

Even knowing it represents something else, I can't see anything other than "platinum pieces".

Well, I would have to assume she means that it is incorrect on both accounts - the developers do set the prices, but they don't care about the game. That's all one could possibly mean by blurting out an incomplete sentence with no context.

They have stated that the individual costume pieces sell significantly worse than costume sets. Personally I think that has to do with the lackluster selection of individual pieces, but they are taking a different message from it.

Unless, of course, you run trials in which case you can do it in a long weekend.

While i agree with that, those were not your only two options.

They shot themselves in the foot with a bazooka. Nothing will help you recover from that.

I think the start of that sentence pretty much excludes you from being an average solo player.

You totally missed everything I said.

The one main difference is the effect on the economy. If you make money on the market, you are essentially taking money out of the game economy (WW fees) and transferring a larger amount to yourself. It is moving money, not making money.

But the pet creates more money.

From a personal standpoint, it produces less value, but from a game inflation standpoint it causes more damage. So, they price it high to prevent the problems it could exacerbate, but in doing so, they price it out of the range of the personal value it provides to the players.

Basically, it's a stupid design choice given to even dumber marketers to try to flog.

Yes, by the developers' inability to make them more fun than hernia surgery.

And reduce my enjoyment of the game by a million.

The game is not a charity to give money to, but more than that, it's not a cult to sacrifice my time and enjoyment to.

You are.

Power only has meaning in relation to what it is compared against.

I can, and it takes very little effort to do so.

OMG - it will rip a hole in Space/Time!!!

It is possible for more than one thing to be important.

Or you could watch a movie by a better director with a better sense of pacing and very likely not see those things.

The fact that it takes a long time from the character's perspective in no way means the player should experience that long time. "We travel back to town" has been an adequate method of traveling large distances for the entire history of RPGs, and there is no reason to change that just because we can now look at pixilated cartoons while we say it.

Incarnate slots are a reward to encourage people to keep subscribing. To assume it is some sort of in-setting reward from the well for success is to vastly misunderstand what it actually represents.

And I can get 7 alignment merits in one day by running SSAs. OMG. Wow. That's so fast.

Except it isn't because they have this really inexplicable habit of front loading rewards in a system that is supposed to last longterm. In the first 3 days the rewards are fine. Stretched over a month they look worse. Stretched over 6 months they look pathetic.

During those first few weeks I pulled roughly twice the rares as I got commons. The speedbump was always getting enough threads/astrals/emps to turn into commons. I have never had to wait to earn a rare - they are much more common proportionally than the numbers of the other things you need.

The first day I ran an iTrial (long before anything was done to speed anything up), I hit t3 in 2 slots in under 3 hours. That's fast. Calling itrial advancement fast isn't perception, it's being minimally aware of your surroundings - and it's been that way from the beginning.