147070-obtaining-pure-and-divine-set-focuses

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			Ok, I'm trying to grind up pure set focus majors without just buying them off the auction house. Prior to the new rune change where you get lots of fragments in the bags, I would just buy the cheapest glory purchaseable ga piece like the ilvl 96 boots and then salvage them. Sometimes I would get a pure set focus from doing this. However, since this recent change I've salvaged 8 in a row(8000 glory!!!) and not gotten a single pure set focus major. Is this working for anyone else??	
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			They nerfed gear salvage for some reason..	
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Sure be nice if a @CRB would come in and explain the reasoning behind this. You give with one hand and take away with the other. What is the point? Just remains a zero sum game. Not sure why you feel the need to make runing our gear is such a huge pain in the arse. We already have to farm a considerable amount of vet / raid content to even have a chance at being able to get the runes, if you did indeed nerf the drop rates from salvaged gear on purpose, then this is just a slap in the face to the entire community imho.
 
You've effectively put us right back to where we started before the patch, unable to rune our gear without an absurd amount of time or money (usually both) and these are trash runes, not even talking class set runes here.
 
Takes a few vet dungeons to even farm enough points to buy one piece of gear to salvage a pure / divine rune, the amount of work required should give you at least a moderate chance at getting ONE rune for all your effort. It's not like we don't need almost 30 or so to rune our gear (insert obligatory eye roll here).
 
I swear you guys sit around thinking of ways to lose players on purpose. If not, you're doing a fantastic job at it au natural.
 
You've tried the super hardcore approach, game went bust. Why continue to resist the inevitable? Just make a few minor modifications and the majority of players would be happy and leave you alone, those being:
 
- Make the game more alt friendly by making the majority of stuff account wide unlocks (dyes, pets, mounts, housing items, achievements, currency)
- Make fabkits 1 time purchases then unlocked forever. This one use stuff isn't going to fly. No one appreciates it.
- Stop implementing unnecessary & tedious time sinks into the game such as not allowing us to rune our gear in a timely fashion. We already have to do a considerable amount of work to get the gear. Stop adding insult to injury and just let us have moderately successful salvage rates please.
- dial back the drop rate nerf on amp & ability points. It needs to be about half way between where it was at the f2p launch and where it is now. You went too far. Be nice if you had a chance at getting them from the tier 3 contracts and if all the daily quest reward bags weren't completely useless @ lv50 as well. (seems like these weren't updated at all from the original launch)
- start fixing the plethora of issues that have existed for over a year in the game
- and lastly OPTIMIZE YO SH*BLEEP*! seriously. If you don't have a team able to do it with your current engine / technology, then hire someone who can. This is the #1 issue everyone I've tried to get to play this game has with this game and it's always the reason they quit playing.
 
From there you will finally have a solid foundation and you can start to add content to the game.
 
Cheers.
 
P.s. stop giving us all these fugly ground mounts (strain kitty ... ugh). How about adding a hoverboard trick package. I'd like to be able to do a ollie mctwist 720 or kick flip off a critters face. Seems like a untapped market to me, especially considering how popular the hoverboards are. Something to think about.
			
				
	Edited November 15, 2015 by ejester	
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			Some method to convert minor set foci into majors would go a long way towards solving this issue. The drop rate in raids could maybe increase a bit, too, but I'm not for increasing it from salvaging/glory bags.	
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What i hate the most are ninja changes.
 
This is direct damage done toward player base where they waste their time and resources (money) because unannounced changes were made by developers.
 
It's the same as if state changes traffic rules and not say anything to citizens, and then police starts giving massive tickets...	
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those have hardly been ninja changes, its been on the PTR for weeks.
 
droprate for fragment is too high, droprate for everything else too low. needs some more adjustments.	
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those have hardly been ninja changes, its been on the PTR for weeks.
 
droprate for fragment is too high, droprate for everything else too low. needs some more adjustments.
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The drop rate for fragments is not too high, because you need so many.
 
The drop rate for foci is too low.
 
Salvaging has been more or less removed as a method to get either of them. I'm getting mostly grey vendor trash when salvaging now, with maybe a few signs thrown in. Not even getting many crafting mats. Salvaging is just fubar now.
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			why are you salvaging the glory gear? wouldnt the rune crafting bag fro 300 glory be better for you?	
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Guys... stop salvaging gear and go to the bags. Granted, I saved up a lot of glory because I knew the changes were coming (as someone else mentioned, we knew for about 2 weeks this was going to happen). Out of like 12k glory, I got 8 Divine Major Set Foci. Out of 9k glory, I got a few less... like 6 pure set foci. 
 
There is a greater chance to get the foci with less glory per chance. It's still RNG, and maybe the set foci could be bumped a little, but still way better than it was.
			
				
	Edited November 16, 2015 by h4vix	
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Out of 15k glory i got 2 major set. So I'd need only 450k glory to rune my characters, nice :)
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Guys... stop salvaging gear and go to the bags. Granted, I saved up a lot of glory because I knew the changes were coming (as someone else mentioned, we knew for about 2 weeks this was going to happen). Out of like 12k glory, I got 8 Divine Major Set Foci. Out of 9k glory, I got a few less... like 6 pure set foci. 
 
There is a greater chance to get the foci with less glory per chance. It's still RNG, and maybe the set foci could be bumped a little, but still way better than it was.
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those have hardly been ninja changes, its been on the PTR for weeks.
 
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Most people don't go investigate PTR and test everything themselves.
 
"Ninja changes" are all those changes not mentioned in patch notes.
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Most people don't go investigate PTR and test everything themselves.
 
"Ninja changes" are all those changes not mentioned in patch notes.
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Guys... stop salvaging gear and go to the bags. Granted, I saved up a lot of glory because I knew the changes were coming (as someone else mentioned, we knew for about 2 weeks this was going to happen). Out of like 12k glory, I got 8 Divine Major Set Foci. Out of 9k glory, I got a few less... like 6 pure set foci. 
 
There is a greater chance to get the foci with less glory per chance. It's still RNG, and maybe the set foci could be bumped a little, but still way better than it was.
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Out of 13k glory, got only 1 major and 3 minor.
Liar or lucky *cupcake* :)
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