Mirroring a comment I just made on discord, I really love the new event store. The challenges feel much more rewarding now and there's enough items to chase in the store that it feels worthwhile to grind. It's not just mindless repetition for tarsis rep or to complete gear challenges now.
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They definitely upped the drops. I had a streak of like 12 or 13 events in a row with a lemon today.
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Makes total sense to me. Mete out the rewards to give people an incentive to log in for ensuing weeks of the event. Same basic principle as the rotating event store.
Just imagine people getting all the weapons and gear they want in the first two or three weeks, then complaining for the last three that they don't have anything to do. I ended up getting a legendary out of every single thing I did yesterday. That's never gonna happen again. |
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Like I said i've been playing lately because the gameplay is fun and satisfying the same reason I played Mass Effect 3 multiplayer because the gameplay itself sets it apart from others. |
Time gating is what these games are. That ain't changing soon.
I finished the store off on Thursday. So far banked 25 major crystals and 2500 minor. The only thing I've done the last three days is try to complete challenges, learn secrets and complain about randos on discord. |
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I'm sure you agree the RNG in this game is unforgiving, it seems it would take years to find the perfect gear so time gating is not necessary. Diablo 2 and 3 didn't time gate and I consider those games to be kings of the looter genre. Aiming for this build right now... <iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MRxSjIM1ntA" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
I don't have enough gear to worry about build at this point. I almost always get lemon drops for things I already have, going back months...
I may by the end of the cataclysm, though. I've gotten some new things in between the waves of repeats. Have lemon melee on all 4 javelins now, albeit not necessarily the melee weapons I might want. And I only have one more gear challenge to finish on my colossus. After that, it's just interceptor. |
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Think I'm up to 31 major crystals and 3500 minor.
This week's challenge war chest will be gear. The armor is storm. Melee war chest will remain in the store, along with the new gear chest. |
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I got 4 legendary melee weapons from challenge warchests last week, so hopefully I'll luck out and get some of the new 80 power gear legendaries.
The storm shard armor looks pretty great. |
So between 4 cataclysm runs and 11 store warchests yesterday, I already have a new piece of 80 legendary gear for each javelin.
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I played 12 hours yesterday and got zero legendaries, i'm about ready to put the game back down again. I haven't seen an upgrade from any legendaries other than melee since the new patch came out. The reset tricks don't seem to work anymore either, they were working before the latest patch.
Not sure how much i'll play it but the new NMS patch looks pretty cool, still someone needs to do the loot shooter right and Anthem seems to have turned the drop rates back down again. |
I haven't noticed any change drop wise from last week. I got four lemon drops (not war chest stuff, drops...) yesterday, didn't play more than 3 hours. Have you been resetting? Because I'm still getting pilot error bugs.
The other thing that's seemed to help my drop rate is cycling through activities, rather than doing a long string of cata, or a bunch of strongholds at once. I'll do a cata, run a sh, do some freeplay, maybe run a lego mission. For whatever reason I seem to get a lot more that way (that's what I was doing on the day I got 12 or 15 in one day last week). My problem is that I'm always getting repeats, rarely anything I need. |
And I played NMS when it launched, and again for a bit when they introduced survival, but haven't touched it. I was looking at the video today, but it just feels like I'd be too far out of the loop by this point.
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I would love to keep grinding Anthem as the games fun just beat down on no upgrades at all in a long span of playing. |
I just got a legendary component I've been looking for for months, but today's been slow otherwise. 3 MW from challenge warchests so far.
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Holy shit did my luck take a turn last night. I decided I wanted to try to get a warding blades lego, so I started buying war chests. I bought FIFTY and got nothing but masterworks.
Fast forward to today, and my first cataclysm run got 10 notable drops... 9 were masterworks. At least the 1 lemon was something new. |
We'll see where this leads....
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I just managed to actually complete GM3 and almost had high score, who knew the lowly storm is so powerful. LOLZ Either someone turned up the loot or GM3 is all that and a bag of chips i'm getting like at least 1 per gm3 run got 4 on a Heart of Rage run earlier. Guess I can't go back to gm2 or lower now except to get the vanity items for things that require speed runs.
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So i jumped on last night for 2 hours and really enjoyed the Cataclysm event. Was playing with random's on GM1, and ended up getting a bunch of masterwork items and some of the yellow ones (epic?). If you guys are on PC/Origin, add me, I need help understanding what to do to get max score, etc on these.
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There are some good guides out there. YourAnthem videos are probably my personal favorite.
Basically do the 4 arenas and then hope everybody else knows to do challenges and not just rush straight to vara. |
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Placed 1056th on the Cataclysm leaderboard! Woot Woot!
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The loot system has completely ruined the Cataclysm for me.
I just bought 130 war chests. I've bought about 250 total, between the two weeks and including the challenges. I wanted 3 legendary items out of those 250 war chests: detonator melee and arctic tomb for ranger, and steam vent for storm. That's all. 3 things. What I got were 3-5 legendary copies of every other melee weapon and piece of gear, but not the three items that I wanted. What's the point in even playing if there's no way to get the specific things you want? I almost just deleted the game. I don't think I've ever been this frustrated and angry in almost 40 years of gaming. |
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After opening about the same amount of chests as you have on my next to last roll All I wanted was a Leg Steam vent and I got it with 200% gear charges and 19% suit dmg. I do feel ya though before I started running endlessly on GM3 My entire gearset sucked, just in the last few days i've managed to roll a ton of high dmg and near perfect rolled gear. No idea what gives other than just switching exclusively to GM3 mode. |
I don't think it bothers me now so much that I didn't get specific items, but that I got so many copies of some things, but didn't get everything.
It's the same issue I have with drops in general. Like yesterday. My Ranger doesn't have all the class gear, he only has 1 class component, I'm missing nearly half of the universal components, and I still don't have three of the original weapons. So 4 legendaries drop, and 3 of them are repeat items. With all of that stuff that I'm missing... And then I got 6 legendaries on my other 3 javelins, combined. All repeat items. It didn't bother me so much during the first month, even two months. But I have hundreds and hundreds of hours played now, and there's no way for me to guarantee acquisition of anything... And the war chests just make it worse. Opening one is like asking how I'll be disappointed this time. I don't even get excited when I see the item is legendary. |
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Back in the day a game like Diablo 2 had similar rng BUT you could actually trade for what you needed which made a HUGE difference. You might keep getting the same Legendary piece and another dude get's the piece you wanted over and over not a problem just trade him gear. |
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So, I'm still playing, but not as much Cataclysm. The additive nature of the event has just made it take too long to do. I liked it early on because i could grind 3 of 4 in and hour and knock the dailies out, whereas now it's a half hour or longer investment just to do it once. And I'm a little burned out on it, too, I think. Just a long event cycle.
I think it's an overall really good event, I just hope that future iterations cut back on the time investment late in the cycle. Gear wise, with the introduction of the new jav specific boxes, I have almost all the gear I want. Weapon wise I'm still missing 3. I get legendary blade slingers over and over and over and over, and that's frustrating. The extra vault space is nice. Need to hear something relatively soon about what's coming, more than the statement yesterday in the state of BioWare blog that they're working on it. That is all. |
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I have no idea whether they do or do not have anything planned after this, but I believe the team at this point is too large for them to not be working on something. However, I am assuming the reason they're expanding the cataclysm is because 1.4 was bugged, and not because there's no plan.
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I don't have a legendary Jarra's Wrath, but my Bad Omen and Riza's Ripper both tear through everything
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Hell no, I don't mess with GM3. I run solo.
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There's new blog post on the game's future, which, ah, doesn't really say anything. But here it is:
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So it sounds like (maybe?) another Cataclysm-style event before the end of the year. Other than that it just sounds like they're re-working the core game. But they've gone so radio-silent since the month after launch that it's really difficult to get a read. |
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It sounds like maybe they're trying to go all-in for a Taken King style reset in February, I just don't know that they'll have enough interest left at that point to pull it off. Although if it's free, I think people will come back to try it.
Either way, it can't not be free. A paid DLC would be a PR nightmare that makes the post-launch period to now look like a sunny day at the beach. And whatever this "seasonal" thing is, it better be good, because even the folks who love the game, like myself, are going to stop playing now that the cataclysm is over. Literally the only thing I have left to do in the game is finish the Tarsis rep. |
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I don't think leaving the cata in is really a viable option, in terms of it providing anything meaningful to the game. I get the impression that pretty much everybody is really, really burned out on the cataclysm now, and not sad at all to see it come to an end. I know I am, and I get the same impression from a lot of the people I communicate with online. We all liked it, but....enough.
Definitely need something new. |
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