Diablo Daily proof new credit system sucks

Instead of people that sit afk and get credit for doing nothing.

We now have a system that enourages players to sit there and do nothing while you do the work to get the event to spawn the blastpods. Then they turn around and kill the blastpods taking all your credit and forcing you to have to repeat the event again. Of course they do not stick around for the monarch phase of the event either.

I would rather some losers get free crap and a free ride than deal with people who can steal your work.

Now let us take a look at the alternative.

So I do the event to get to the phase where the blastpods and hellbug archers spawn. So being a nice guy I simply tag each blastpod. However you know what happens next? Now I have to it through five blast pods and three archers shooting at me waiting for the other player to get his credit. Which usually involves a extraction because with that much shooting at you you end up dead.

I would rather some losers get free crap and a free ride than die while waiting for someone else to kill off mobs you were forced to tag.

The diablo daily is the only daily I can think of that has such a pain in the *** problem with the new system. However if the system was fixed than we would not have to repeat this arguement with future content.

By taking part in the event you get credit for what they kill as well. The "you must contribute to receive reward" rule is general, not mob specific. So by being there, killing things, doing something at all, you all get credit. If they sit back and wait for you to do all the dirty work, they are only prolonging the time they take to get it done.

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Originally Posted by Antomus

By taking part in the event you get credit for what they kill as well. The "you must contribute to receive reward" rule is general, not mob specific. So by being there, killing things, doing something at all, you all get credit. If they sit back and wait for you to do all the dirty work, they are only prolonging the time they take to get it done.

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No you don't get credit. I did it yesterday 5 times and again today 4 times just to get the damn thing done. There is no shared credit any longer and it's now turning into an every man for himself gameplay style with the patch change.

Frankly, things like this are starting to turn me off this game. I bought it for an MMO experience not a single player game in a shared world of other single players.

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Originally Posted by Antomus

By taking part in the event you get credit for what they kill as well. The "you must contribute to receive reward" rule is general, not mob specific. So by being there, killing things, doing something at all, you all get credit. If they sit back and wait for you to do all the dirty work, they are only prolonging the time they take to get it done.

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He isn't talking about credit for the event as such, but credit for completing the contract that requires you kill 15 blastpods there, previously if you were killing a blastpod and a couple of other guys killed the next one along, you would get credit for both blastpods for your contract, now you only get credit for a blastpod you do damage on.

Yeah, it is very much mob specific now. Instead of just killing anything that comes my way I now have to run around shooting every pod I can find atleast once to get credit for all of them.

I really preferred the way it was before the patch changed it. This new thing reminds me of WoW dailies too much and I hated doing those.

Yeah. This daily is poorly thought out with the way credit works.
You don't even bring up the fact you have to do it about 3 times, which for a daily is pretty dumb.

What I do is I help with the quest, but when I know the pods are gonna spawn I turn on blur and run around and hit all the pods a couple times, then wait for others to kill it, but I've seen people just fill them as fast as possible.

It really should just be "Complete the Diablo Station event."

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Originally Posted by Psamion

Yeah, it is very much mob specific now. Instead of just killing anything that comes my way I now have to run around shooting every pod I can find atleast once to get credit for all of them.

I really preferred the way it was before the patch changed it. This new thing reminds me of WoW dailies too much and I hated doing those.

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Yes yes yes! This needs to stop. Seriously I do all the hard work, they tag everything and destroy it while I am fighting off misc crap.

Come on Trion!

This system is utter garbage. I've ranted about it in another thread similar to this one. But basically team work is now replaced by soloing. One of the reasons my friends and I used to run in groups is now gone. Just like farming key codes from road events used to be a group activity we tried to pigeon hole into this game. That choice I understood. It made sense the keys were abit too easy to get. But now with this the only reason to group is PvP as most of us have run the current co op maps so many times that most pursuits are complete and there's no longer any spontaneous fun to be had. This game is quickly becoming a single player experience. And if that's the case then ill have to get my multiplayer fix elsewhere I suppse...

I would like to add that I love this game and franchise. And I have never before openly criticized Trion or Defiance. In fact I'm quite the fan boy of all of it. I just want them to bring back that MMO feeling I had my first couple of weeks. If this change is permanent then I truly hope they have some awesome co op ace up their sleeve to make parties in game more frequent.

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Originally Posted by hardy83

It really should just be "Complete the Diablo Station event."

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That would be the best solution or something similar to it. There is eight blastpods that spawn during the event. Three in the first phase and five during the fith phase. So even twice would be fine.

I agree, the new changes make the dailies a lot less fun. Now you have to compete against other players doing the same event when you should be helping each other. It destroys the teamwork aspect of doing events with other people. Change it back to the old system, Trion!