The reward system in the raid.
I know the hm raid is only out for 3 weeks (loot drops anyways) and the drops are a complete horrorshow to put it mildly.
While we all did 7 to 9 completions (on 3 characters) with rewards together we have a huge light level difference. While I am 317 now the rest is around 313ish. Most of my team are at the breaking point now for this. Not seeying anything usefull drop when we do the raid on all 3 characters is truly a misprogrammed rng system.
Lets analyse it for a bit:
General:
why drop items that are lower light than you currently have?
- seriously who thought this was a good idea? Different perks? Oke but drop that at a higher light level...thank you.
Moldering shards
- who needs them for a extra roll? Improve your rng instead of this crap.
Hardmode
Why drop normal mode items?
- again why would I need those and who thought this is what players would want or need? When I am ready for hm I dont need normal stuff anymore.
If the idea is to keep players playing...come up with some better system.
Here are a few ideas (I came up with in only a few minutes)
Moldering shards
- let players use it to infuse their raid gear (say 10 shards for 2 or 3 light on a single piece of gear)
- let them trade it in for the piece of gear that isn't dropping for them. (100 shards for a helmet for example)
Drops
- let these be of use. Instead of giving a player a 320 gun straight away let them get a 310-315 first. After that make it drop from the last lightlevel to 5 upwards.
- remove lower light items from the loot table for that player.
As I stated above. Our clan played Destiny alot and we have a large group of players who pretty much do the raid multiple times (even when we got our rewards) every week to help eachother and randoms out on hm completions.
But I honestly tell you that this lootdrop system is destroying this game now. Its not the fact that some players are way higher in light compared to others. Its the fact that they complete the raid every week and most of the time don't get anything for it at all.
Yes its rng and yes people play it for fun....but how long will this remain fun......
EDIT
WOW 1500 replies in only 2 days!!! It looks like a lot of people are feeling the same way about this. The vast majority shares my opinion in this regard.
Some do not agree and some don't seem to understand why this system is worse than VoG and why. I included an example were I explain how this rng works without making it to complicated.
This is why I think this rng is badly designed:
This rng is designed to NOT give you the things you need and let me explain to you why.
These numbers are not official but I want to illustrate my point here and I am not factoring in different perks for simplicity here.
Example:
Boss 1 can drop the following items:
Sniper 300-310
Machine gun 300-310
Rocketlauncher 300-310
167 slots of moldering shards without a weapon roll
This loot table has an outcome of 200 posible rolls (33 of which have a weapon and shards)
3 x 11 for the weapons and 167 shards to create an even 200 rolls
You are level 299 when you start the raid. Basicly 33 out of the 200 rolls are usefull to you right? Every weapon is higher than what you have and thus "usefull". the chance of you getting an usefull item are 16.5 % to be precise
Lets say for argument sake after 3 raids you got the sniper, machine gun and rocket launcher all at 305. Every weapon has 11 posible roll right 300 to 310 that's 11. But you are 305 with those weapons. So 300-305 are not any (immediate) use to you. What is left for every weapon is 306-310. That's 5 usefull rolls per weapon.
With 3 weapons this makes 3 x 5 is 15 rolls that are usefull to you.
15 out of the 200 posible outcomes are benificial to you. That about 8%.
So the higher you get the smaller the chances are for you getting actually what you need.
The old VoG was really simple in this regard. You simple got something or not. The odds were the same for everyone in the team.
Hope this clears things up a bit.
And thx for this amazing feedback guys!!!!
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I agree, i can only seem to get weak stuff I have or basically nothing. I beat oryx yesterday on normal (with 20 moldering shards) and I only got a 303 ghost. And don't forget about the rials packages, both my silvers were freaking blue engrams! My friend got a 310 jade rabbit and ToO auto rifle! Thanks bungie, we grind harder for less or no rewards we actually need :/
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I'm not raiding in TTK so far, but getting Normal items in Hard Mode sounds like utter nonsense. Like many other things I've read about TTK raid loot.
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1 AntwortenTl:dr Assuming its ends with fallout 4 and blops 3. Good for your friends
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4 AntwortenI haven't done hard mode yet but I sort of think that the problem here is misdiagnosed. I used to run VoG normal and hard and Crota normal and hard multiple times a week for many weeks. Most of those runs, I came out no better than when I went in. In fact I never got the complete crota armor set until HoW dropped, which was frustrating. Why did I keep doing it? I was trying to get the armor, yes, but more importantly i wanted the unique raid weapons, some of which only dropped in hard mode, and exotics. I think the problem with the current raid loot is that the weapons are basically the same for hard and normal with some cosmetic changes (correct me if I'm wrong), just at a higher light level. It's never going to be as exciting to get the same gun you have, which isn't that great to begin with, just at a higher light. Nothing like how we lusted after Fatebringer and WoC and the Vex. Just a guess as to why I'm a lot less motivated than I was then.
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2 AntwortenDestiny sucks now. It's okay to say it. I was hardcore desitnite year one, I played for a little yesterday for the first time in a long time, it was so -blam!-ing boring. Guys no need to keep defending a crappy game where the developers got greedy and lazy. It's okay to say.... This game sucks It does.
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Yeah this loot system is stupid as -blam!-. They were making steps toward the right direction then they took 2 giant steps back. The grind to the highest light level is ridiculous, and nothing is more bullshit than getting a -blam!-ing 312 ghost from hard mode oryx after you got a 314 ghost earlier in the raid. You should AT LEAST be guaranteed to get something higher than what you already have.
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Bearbeitet von kingwasp53: 11/8/2015 1:04:30 PMI bet Charlie felt special finding that golden ticket. . Even though he was disappointed the first time when It was just chocolate. ..
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1 AntwortenLet me call the Wahmbulance for you and your friends! This is serious!!
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1 AntwortenBearbeitet von SloppyVagg: 11/8/2015 8:06:15 AMI only get on a few times a week now with the TTK and that's just to check if the special quest that leads to exotic guns. I played all the time before. I really like the TTK but I don't like Kings fall at all. I know so many people that are getting shit for the raid when I would do Crota and VoG it seemed worth it. The weapons were amazing with elemental powers now all the guns I've heard about and see are shit compared to those. No need to play Ironbanner with 280 weapons and gear. I guess Bungie is happy and they are telling us "Here you go see you when Destiny 2 comes out" Which I will buy. The game is amazing but the raid system is broke and more so now.
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3 AntwortenOne of my friends stopped playing Destiny and [b][u]only[/u][/b]plays black ops 3 The game came out 2 days ago and he's about to prestige Wtf!!!!
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2 AntwortenBearbeitet von Solid Snake3324: 11/8/2015 8:03:12 AMDon't get me wrong this game has a fantastic gameplay mechanics but on the other side it' is a shady activision cash cow games for fanboys just like how cod is I already left playing after spending 3000 hrs I might come back when destiny 2 launches now can easily spend hours in fallout 4 my nipples can cut a glass right know because of the hype XD
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3 AntwortenReason for normal items to drop in hard is so you dont need to run normal raid as well as hard.
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3 AntwortenYou know, reading the comments on your post for an hour REALLY makes me want to play borderlands 2
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My group is stopping for the same reasons... And black ops. I'm personally waiting for fallout now.
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1 Antwortennormal mode items should just simple not even drop in the hard raid
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7 AntwortenBearbeitet von Soup: 11/5/2015 5:19:25 PMIts part of the game. I had to do VoG over 30 times to get atheons epilogue. Everyone should know this is how this game works by now.
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I do remember the previous raids and the drop rates being more the less the same. (Which is terrible) Its just this time around, apart from wanting the ideal roll/perks you also have to worry about the light level too. I've completed the raid about a dozen times now and still no helmet. I did NM raid last night to receive an amazing 303 Heavy and 300 shotgun... I used 20 shards at Oryx just to get 2 shards and the heavy... I would be happy if they prevented that 20 shards for 2 shard reward already. If thats not the case then let us use the moldering shards in Kingsfall Hard as well.
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Bearbeitet von DDubb000: 11/6/2015 1:18:00 AMI have a theory that they're gonna bring back the Y1 raids/strikes via an exciting new PR update to please the fans with the so-called "live team" through the micro interactions money.. Y1 weapons/armor that I spent enjoyable, exciting hours to get made obsolete was the first mistake... The Taken King sucks and I won't fall for the broken promises and hype anymore...
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When your only progressive regular activity is a raid its hard to keep player engaged and playing, so they make drops harder to get and make Tuesday activities give zero useful benefits. I don't see how anyone can defend this game, it's got some amazing potential and during the first months it filled the big boy shoes of gaming greats but omg has it gone down hill faster than an ex junkie playing with a needle. Here's hoping that the division ends up nothing like this game.
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Lol, I have 8 completions on hm kings fall. I also have 28 completions on VoG, which is the number it took to get all my gear. You don't know the struggle.
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Are people getting bored with Destiny. They can't will themselves through another quest. Not in the mood to do strikes. Tired of collecting moldering shards,calcium fragments. This game is dying. No it's dead. Everyone's leaving and rightfully so.
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Yeah, this is nothing
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You have no right to complain if you weren't here during vault of glass[spoiler]#forever29[/spoiler]
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35 AntwortenMan you must be a christmas fcuking noob. The raid loot system has been like this since VoG launched in SEPTEMBER 2014!!!!!!!!!! Good riddance to your clown ass friends. Maybe you should go too for being so oblivious.
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1 AntwortenMouldering shards shouldn't even exist. They claim to have fixed the loot drops and yet you need 20 for a better chance(which they claim you already have) at loot. I have actually beaten Oryx with 20 plus shards only to get 2 shards in place of actual loot. I haven't even tried hard yet because I don't have a touch and my warlock is the only one with full raid gear. I'm not quitting though. The game is still fun because of the people I play with. But without those in social gaming community( refuse to call it a clan lol) I might have already left