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For what purpose?
You don't seem to see the link. You have no apparent reason because you have no apparent interest in the other two paths. The other two paths are what would benefit from animus. If you do not have any interest in the other two paths at the moment, any i90 or i95 will get the job done.
So, just because a player doesn't do coil (or isn't able to, if they lack an FC that can do that), they should just outright forget about progressing their character because "It isn't necessary."?
That's pretty close to saying "You got to Lv50 you might as well just quit the game".
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So don't do what you dislike. Simple as that.
You say that, and then you say....
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So if MMOs are about improving your character and SE has given you three clear paths to do so, why do you not just put in the work to complete one path?
Two paths require either a good static, or really good luck with Party Finder (which I hear is kinda strict these days, similar to PUG raids in WoW). One Path is Do-able Solo but is God-Awful Boring. You say "Don't do the God Awful Boring" .... but if I don't have a static and I can't get any luck in PF.... then that's basically "You're stuck with it, or quit the game." That sounds like bad game design to me.
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Easier to obtain? Yes, I believe easy is implied. You can play with semantics all you like. It is easier, by default, to go the atma/animus route than do Leviathan Ex and a mirror or turn 9.
The point I was trying to make sailed right over your head.
Again: Removing RNG != "Easier". Removing RNG =
Consistent. Everybody puts in the same amount of work.
If you
expect it to take ~50 Hours with RNG, you could remove the RNG and make it take a number of times that still takes about 40-50 hours. Same amount of work, its just you are guaranteed to get it in 40-50 and not "You might get it in 5, or you might get it in 80+". So yeah, 500 was an exaggeration. I used that exaggeration merely to pose a point. 80 sound better? Why is it fair that some people get the entire weapon in 5 hours, and another spends 50 hours and only has 1 of the Atmas? You cannot POSSIBLY say that's fair by any longshot.
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Uh...ok. So basically what I am hearing is that it's healthier to work on your animus in a casual manner instead of burning yourself out grinding for hours. This is kind of what I have been saying the entire time.
*Whoosh*
Again, the point goes over your head. I said
it is healthy to actually meet your goals once in awhile and have no further goals for a short period of time to take a 'break'. If you take it slow like you suggest... then you're just going to get left in the dust. When you do finally get them if you work slowly at them, then the next major patch comes out, and there's *more* to do......and you're still not done with the previous! There's no break, you finish your Atmas and then you immediately need to start doing whatever the next patch brings.
What I said above, I said it is healthy for a player to occasionally meet all of their goals for a couple weeks so they can take a break and play something else and come back refreshed when the new set of goals are released. When a player slaves away (even casually) and never meets all of their goals, then it feels like a slogfest or quagmire that you can never get ahead of.
Ever played with a cat?
You grab a string with a bell on the end of it. Said bell has a bunch of bright feathers or something, and you swing it around, and the cat keeps chasing it. But anybody who actually owns a cat is very well aware that the cat WILL get bored fairly quickly if you don't allow it to catch the bell occasionally. It will actually give up and plop down on the floor and start not caring about it. Sometimes they'll start flicking their tail because they are actually getting
annoyed.
But yet, if you let that cat catch the bell for a few moments after a few misses, it will play much longer before it gets bored, and it won't get annoyed.
Same type of concept applies to MMORPG gamers -- if you keep the bell on a string just beyond their reach perpetually, they'll eventually get annoyed and stop caring about goals they can't achieve. They might even eventually get the game entirely, or at least for a long period of time. They need to catch that bell every now and then, and enjoy the feeling of accomplishment before another bell is dangled in front of their face immediately. They need a week or two to just enjoy their accomplishment before the next goal comes out every now-and-then.
Edited, Apr 24th 2014 1:18pm by Lyrailis