Non-tradeable weekly weapons are a good thing

[Gai]

It doesn't affect the prices actually. Because how many people are going to non trade able jackpots? Exactly.

It will, I'm gonna be selling all my mk2 drops for 7m+

[Mister Derpenhowser]

Where did you hear that?

Probably hearsay that they have taken as fact

[xXxDSMer]

I honestly don't mind the weekly presents being account locked. The prices of the original named weapons will go through the roof as well as the mk2 versions from arkfalls and bit store boxes. It's an excellent marketing strategy by Trion and bit sales will be higher than ever.

One problem with the underlined part of the quote: they're not account locked, they're character locked. Even if the thing with an alt's full inventory is done to push the reward into claim items: when it's taken out of claim items, it'll be that character's forever... since untradeable it'd be impossible to move it to another of your own characters later.


And it's a bad thing, really. If I happen to get a weekly box jackpot weapon that I really don't like, but a friend really does like - and vice versa for a friend - the disliked weapons can't be traded to get the liked weapons.

[Chump Norris]

One problem with the underlined part of the quote: they're not account locked, they're character locked. Even if the thing with an alt's full inventory is done to push the reward into claim items: when it's taken out of claim items, it'll be that character's forever... since untradeable it'd be impossible to move it to another of your own characters later.

I always wanted an option to send things to claims for an hour or so for transferring items between characters. It would solve the problem you just described.

[wjssmith]

So you can buy weapons and shields from other players or receive them as a gift and that's ok. But if you pull them from claims that's cheating? I honestly do not see the difference other than enriching some other player. Lets be honest everything you get at low ego is trash and 90% of what you get at high ego is trash. However, the high ego trash is a treasure for your low ego toon. I can see where trion would be upset as it only cost 1 arkforge to downgrade but up to 25 to level up an oj. But I can't understand all of the upset by some players. Honestly you could pass things to a clan mate and then on to your low ego toon or vice versa and it would be perceived as fair and would amount to the same thing as pulling them from claims. As far as named weapons go, this seems an easy fix, simply set ego to the "winning" toons ego level when it goes to claims the same as every other item and then it would eliminate the incentive to farm for these weapons with low ego toons with full inventorys. Just my 2 cents worth.

[TNO]

@TNO You're saying because you can't put in the time to farm and/or trade for the weapon you want, that makes it okay to to just pull it for free in a cheap way?

If we were playing on the same server you would now that not a lot of players are putting the time in that I do.
The thing is that with this change playing a lot will get you nowhere. Everything is reduced to pure luck.

[Ray8888]

Because how many people are going to non trade able jackpots? Exactly.

Exactly. More than two?

[ShatterST4R]

Exactly. More than two?

Just because they aren't trade able won't increase value on some because many people still may pull one or more types. So it just depends on how many of whichever get pulled Lol. Even if there are a lot of MKII untradeables out there, price won't be insane due to more people having one they want.(even if untradeable.)

[Ray8888]

Because how many people are going to non trade able jackpots? Exactly.

How many people are going to what? Im confused.

[Claydough]

It doesn't affect the prices actually. Because how many people are going to non trade able jackpots? Exactly.

it does as normal jackpot drops are tradable therefore, just as valuable as before.

if I don't score myself a wolfman mk2, im expecting to have to give up some very good weapon some a good lot of scrip to be able to buy a genuine wolfman mk2