Discussion: Update 6: Developer Diary Feedback: Instance Finder Rewards

Envoyé par Annariel

I thought that would have been obvious from the start - the +50% is for doing *random* content, so if you pick only a single skirmish, there's no bonus.

However, depending on the number of options you have, you can usually deselect one or two without losing any of the bonus, and if you keep, say, half of your options selected, you should still get a decent bonus. To me, that seems quite fair.

Most of the complaints I've seen (prior to update 6) were 'I'm sick of Gondamon' or 'I don't want to do Icy Crevasse - ever'. I think these people pretty much got what they were asking for.

I always knew that somehow the random selection would have more bonuses than selecting a specific skirmish or an instance. I do realize that they have to somehow promote the randomization in order to avoid long world queues. In U5 that was done in a completely unfair pattern without alternatives (the skirmishes were nerfed beyond understanding, and you could not even upgrade the marks you got from those nerfed skirmishes into medallions so they were completely useless hence end game solo play was no more unless you wanted to run the skirmishes like a million times...), in revamped U6 Instance Finder things are fair enough. I can not chose to go to a random instance because some of the hectic skirmishes where there are no breaks to take care of a kid who smears his peanut butter-jam toast on the table just dont do it for me. But I am perfectly satisfied now that I can chose multiple skirmishes that I can actually run&complete and still get a decent bonus if not 50%. Its only fair.

Envoyé par Chanah

If you really like the system, you should have no complaints. Until Turbine makes it absolutely mandatory (and they may), very few people are going to use it. Most of us have preferred to give up skirmishes - even those of us who liked to run them occasionally - rather than use the IF.

Quite. Well done turbine. You've come up with a great system to deter me from doing skirmishes. No reward unless going totally random and no way to translate marks into seals.

You're a hoot, that's what you are, a real hoot.

I haven't run a solo skirmish since Update 6 released. I used to run them quite a bit :-/ The penalty/bonus thing just leaves a bad taste so I don't do it at all anymore.

I'll still do some skirmish raids but I don't set them up. And now the server lag is starting to eat away at that, too... Turbine is training us to not want to play pieces of their game.