My suggestion for better gaming experience

My suggestion/opinion for making the game much better:

Summary:

Players don’t want to be given everything just for showing up, but the grind needs to have a reasonable chance at a reward.

If you spend any time looking at the complaints about DSO or any similar game, you’ll see what players want.

Happy customers become loyal customers and those loyal customers spend more money.

We need a better reason to grind and spend our money and that begins with gear. If we have a better chance at good gear, we grind or buy gems, we grind or buy locks picks, we grind or buy glyphs, we grind or buy ess, we grind or buy buffs, etc. instead of spending our time complaining.

Overall game experience: This is why we play.

1. The endless grinding needs a reward to keep us playing. This begins with giving us something to look forward to. Gear, gems, buffs, ess, etc. but the drop rate for items needs to be seriously improved.

2. Crafting needs a major overhaul or gotten rid of. It’s been said that crafting isn’t supposed to be a main part of the game, so get rid of it; there is no reason to simply raise the price to discourage players further.

3. Create a NPC to sell emotes. This would be a money maker. Obviously there are some who love these things, so sell them instead of forcing hundreds on us during an event. Players want actual rewards (see my suggestion under event idea).

4. New weapons. Again, this is the base reason to play the game, and grinding would be more enjoyable if there was something to look forward to.

5. New customizations. Add the ability to dye our mounts, or add armor to them. It doesn’t have to effect the game; just cosmetic differences would be really nice and give us another reason to put up with the grind.

6. Raise the selling prices. The switch to gold was an interesting twist, but the selling prices need a significant boost. You want us to buy a 5000 gold mount, we should be able to reach that goal in some what of a reasonable time. It should not take 2 years of mindless grinding.

Gear: This is the reason why people grind and spend money.

1. Get rid of the white gear. This serves no purpose in the game, and most players don’t bother to pick it up.

2. Gear drops need to be significantly increased overall. Again, this is why we grind and spend money.

3. Drops of purples and legendary items need a huge increase. Especially in end maps like Stalgard and Parallel worlds.

4. All legendary items should have a minimum of 2 enchantments and 3 gem slots.

5. Unique drops need a major increase. According to the wiki page, there are supposed to be a chance to get a unique item on most areas of the game, yet honestly players have a better chance of seeing Bigfoot than a unique item.

It is the gear that drives us to search or buy gems, to grind or buy glyphs, to search or buy lock picks. It is the basic reason why we want to play the game…

Bosses: Once a player gets to the point to face a boss, there needs to be a reward for the effort.

1. Every main boss should drop at a minimum a purple item. There is absolutely no excuse for a white gear drop on bosses like Destructor. All this does is discourage players from wanting to play the game. I’m not suggesting a guaranteed unique every run, but some chance of getting it for all the time, effort and resources to defeat the main bosses in the game. No one should have to beat a boss hundreds of time without ever seeing a unique or at least a very good legendary item.

Events: These need to focus on real rewards.

1. Every main boss should drop a better minimum; something like a legendary item or high tier gem or unique item.

2. Get rid of the mind numbing grind. No one should have to farm hours to get to face the boss once. This is absolutely ridiculous.

3. Let us do something with the junk we have to farm for. The best option would be to sell/give/earn or win an event storage bag where we could stash the beets, beans, pearls, etc.. But since that will never happen allow us to sell this junk. Not just for a couple copper either, but a minimum of 10 silver per item we were forced to grind for.

4. Stop putting worthless consumable emotes as a prize. I know some people like these, but they are not a suitable reward for beating a boss. A better option would be to create a NPC and sell these emotes .50 copper for consumable, 1 or 5 gold for 7 day, 5 or 10 andermant for permanent.

5. If you aren’t going to make some serious changes to Gnob, get rid of the draken reward or allow us to sell it for andermant.

 

"4. All legendary items should have a minimum of 2 enchantments and 3 gem slots."

All legendary items have four enchantments and a minimum of two gem slots...

 

They come with 4 enchantments already huh ?????

 

Yes, they always do. In your pic, you have 1 enchantment with Crit dmg and 3 with HP. 4 enchantments. You can see the different HP enchants total 376. If you put it in a slot on your toon you will see them broken out instead of a total.

 

Couldn't have said it better my self BigPapa. There are times I only want one kind of enchantment, but I never get that lucky. For example, I would love to get a 4 line crit belt with at least 150-175 a line.

Also, Rhysingstar, If you want to see all the enchantments separate as opposed to added together with the "Compare Loot Tool," either put it into upgrade mode (but this won't let you see separate percentage lines like crit damage as these don't upgrade), or simply un-equip the item you already have equipped. For example, if you took off what ever amulet you are using at the moment and then hovered your mouse over that pictured amulet, you'd see all the lines separately. Enjoy your 4 enchantment legendaries.

 

Heck ya, I'm still looking for that holy grail bow with 4 %dmg enchants. Somewhere around 120-140% would be acceptable.

 

Excellent example of "compare crap tool" being misleading and it should have an option to turn it off.
I will pass this to Greg in this thread.