Trion Removing Ability To Upgrade Rarity More Than Once Per Item

[Deunan]

A weapon or shield will also become encrypted when its rarity is increased in the Salvage Matrix. When a piece of equipment’s rarity is upgraded in the Salvage Matrix, its rarity is increased by one tier (as players have already experienced in the current version of the game). The equipment also gains the encrypted modifier on its details window. Additionally, while an encrypted item’s EGO rating can still be increased, its rarity tier cannot be increased any further.

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[satirized]

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If this happen, I might as well as quit. Upgrade all your weapons/shields to purple NOW.

[Bonehead]

This clinches it. Still in beta.

Credit where it's due though. The article was well written without any made up nonsense. Just a straightforward explanation of the change and the philosophy behind it. I found it refreshing.

[duction]

after reviewing the data we see fewer players purchasing lockboxes with both our in-game currency and Bits

Ohhhhhh Trion

So soon we cannot upgrade blue to orange.

[Arsenic_Touch]

So items will drop that can't be upgraded and other items can only be upgraded once.
This change is because they're under the misguided impression that people aren't buying lockboxes as much because of the unlimited rarity upgrades. They couldn't be more disconnected from their playerbase if they tried at this point.

"Solely not a revenue choice." haha... man.

[duction]

^ I know right. People are not buying lock box's with bits because the drop rate is horrendous and the orange guns you do pull are god awful.

[Bonehead]

Maybe it's just me but I thought the boxes weren't selling because they seem to suck so bad.

[Chump Norris]

I wonder what this means for things like changing rolls..

[Deunan]

I wonder what this means for things like changing rolls..

Probably nothing. It will increase the appeal of buying dozens of lock boxes only to get an orange item with bad rolls because you can reroll the bad ones. You don't even have to grind for Arkforge to do it because you can buy that from the bit store.....

:::ducks:::

[Rasczak]

So items will drop that can't be upgraded and other items can only be upgraded once.
This change is because they're under the misguided impression that people aren't buying lockboxes as much because of the unlimited rarity upgrades. They couldn't be more disconnected from their playerbase if they tried at this point.

"Solely not a revenue choice." haha... man.

Yeah, seriously. Well, Trion is helping me enjoy Marvel Heroes more and more.

Maybe it's just me but I thought the boxes weren't selling because they seem to suck so bad.

No doubt.

^ I know right. People are not buying lock box's with bits because the drop rate is horrendous and the orange guns you do pull are god awful.

I have never, and will never, purchase a lockbox with Bits. Keys are easy to get, and so is scrip. Well, for now anyway. I'm sure Trick will nerf that as well like he did Arkforge. But I'll uninstall before I am forced to use Bits for a lockbox.