Loot Boosts being removed from game - PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE!

[SymbolicGamer]

lol @ this "now" shtacko. Defiance was a money pit from day one.

[PseudoCool]

This has already sort of been done with Arktech Revolution. The higher tier mobs have a chance to drop blues and purples.

I get blues and purples on an almost consistant rate doing just normal arkfalls BEFORE the DLC's even started. I FINALLY dropped an orange out of one the other day that was worth a look and keep.

However.. the RNG that I was referring to was from the " in-game earnings" lockboxes, which are really jinky and almost make it to be useless to get them for some of us, then the "go to" for others. There's no real balance in the RNG or loot tables for lock boxes. Sorry, I should have been more specific.

[wartitan]

Correct (and confirmed by Scapes just a few moments ago as well)
Not for some players. Many if not most players sold their trash loot to vendors so loot=scrip for them.

Good point Deunan, as I mentioned I rarely ran a loot boost. So as long as the current drop rates on crap stay the same, it will be the same scrip boost I've been getting as I do loot=scrip myself....

[PseudoCool]

Personally.. I've always been of the opinion that all the boosts should go away until they can be implemented to where they work as advertised.. which means you'd need to test them, and listen to the feedback your testers give.

Oh wait.. this is Trion we're talking about..

Nevermind.. noting to see here.. these are not the dev's your looking for...

[Dukhat]

Wow... they MUST have lost their minds..
The only thing worth getting, they remove it.

Way to lose money Trion!

[rebtattoo]

Once my salvage and scrip bypassed the 2m mark I quit buying boosts needless to say, I haven't bought them in some time.

None of the boosts mean very much to me, as none of them "directly" give the currency I am chasing now. A Forge Boost, I think, would be welcome by many of the Vet players. However, Trick has flip-flopped on his stance about the Forge chase, so it's doubtful it would ever see fruition.

[Pandur]

Once my salvage and scrip bypassed the 2m mark I quit buying boosts needless to say, I haven't bought them in some time.

None of the boosts mean very much to me, as none of them "directly" give the currency I am chasing now. A Forge Boost, I think, would be welcome by many of the Vet players. However, Trick has flip-flopped on his stance about the Forge chase, so it's doubtful it would ever see fruition.

Well the score boost basically is a key and arkforge boost.
Frankly if you go for pure forge boosts you might as well just buy the arkforge it may come cheaper heh.

[PseudoCool]

Once my salvage and scrip bypassed the 2m mark I quit buying boosts needless to say, I haven't bought them in some time.

None of the boosts mean very much to me, as none of them "directly" give the currency I am chasing now. A Forge Boost, I think, would be welcome by many of the Vet players. However, Trick has flip-flopped on his stance about the Forge chase, so it's doubtful it would ever see fruition.

My "wallet" in game is no where near what yours is, but I'm already at that point where I'm chasing Ark Forge more than anything else. Mainly just because the RNG hates me to an almost epic level and I need arkforge to keep my weapons up to snuff and competitive in co-ops and instances. That and I've got a couple of purples (and yes, even a blue) that I'm really looking forward to jamming up to OJ's when the patch goes live today.

Now, if they gave us a Forge Boost, THEN I'd buy one.. but like yourself, I haven't bought a boost in ages, not since the fiasco with the clan XP boost that I still haven't gotten my bits back for.

[Quebra Regra]

I'm not really for score boosts... this sounds too p2win for me.

As I seem to recall, "loot boosts" resulted in more junk loot, not better loot. I don't think they ever actually increased the quality of loot. What resulted were the junk loot weekends we all remember so fondly. Perhaps this is what they menat by not working as intended?

Moreover, the sheer volume of junk loot had to be factor in server loading. I'm not really crying over the loss of loot boosts.

[PseudoCool]

^^ this is exactly what wasn't working as intended. Amazingly it only took them a YEAR to figure it out after just about every Alpha tester that tested these boosts reported it.