Mercenaries

[Mostadio]

I wouldn't mind seeing HI and Mercs get revamped. While HI specs are still a viable twinking item, the mechanics of the raids are old and stale. The idea of devs spending time exclusively on New things is great and all, but there's so much content in AO that's been ground into the dust of the past and serves little purpose other than twinking our TL4-6s because a single item gives some kind of weird stat bonus or fits into a loophole. The amount of encounters on RK that were meant to be end-game so long ago are numerous. DB guys in PW, the Omni soldiers in EFP, so on and so forth. The mechanics for them, as well, have always been lame. Fiery Soldier is up after a server reboot or someone got bored, logged, and he popped? Cool. Time to get a beeping backpack on your level 1 when you're tired of your BoC. Like the OP said, these really don't serve any purpose other than accumulating stuff for our social tabs. Froob raids? Yeah, it's a nice sentiment to leave them our scraps when a new buffet rolls out, but let's really think about it. Why spend dev hours creating a new playfield when there's an enormous amount of real estate that could be revitalized? Ace camp, HI, and so forth aren't some ancient establishments in a historical district for us to take our kids to and say "This is where we used to raid back when landline connections were status quo."

Want a new expansion pack? Call it "Return to Rubi-Ka" and focus on the heart and soul of this game. Why create new PFs when there's tens of sq kms begging for purpose and tens of encounters that are done out of boredom or because we're curious whether or not we can solo Kronillis?

[Ahndracorvid]

Want a new expansion pack? Call it "Return to Rubi-Ka" and focus on the heart and soul of this game. Why create new PFs when there's tens of sq kms begging for purpose and tens of encounters that are done out of boredom or because we're curious whether or not we can solo Kronillis?

Amen to that.

[Cratertina]

Aye get shiny lewt to old encounters. Maybe make all that old RK lewt imbued with xan WU's, or Tara imbuement thingies. Imagine converting Merc armor to ql300 spec? Anything that moves people away from.. "Combined/Xan weapon combo" IS a big bonus in my book. Nothing is as booring as seeing every assault rifle soldier wield xan assault rifle. Give old phatz new use. Make it hard to get and give it equal or comparable stats to Xan weapons.

Just imagine the lolz when you pop out a rusty oldschool assaultrifle to a duel. Changes like this are cheap on development time and massive fun for hoardes of players.

[Glarawyn]

Aye get shiny lewt to old encounters.

You know, if you did really want to refresh loot changing what the existing encounters drop isn't a horrible idea. I hate to be the one that says "Well <insert other MMORPG here> does this..." but in this case it seems apt. When that snowstorm company adds a new raiding tier some raids get closed, and their loot goes to special vendors so new players can still gear up for the current raiding tier.

Azure Reveries armor was great back in the day, so why not a quick revamp and call it Azure Reveries MK2 and give it stats relevant to L190-205 players. Or switch up the coloring and naming to set the new armor apart from the old. Given that it's not top tier end game anymore it wouldn't hurt to increase the drop rate a bit to get players equipped a bit faster.

What good are mercenaries who's equipment is years out of date anyway?

[Wyoming]

Soloable ones tend not to be that good.

[Burgly]

I wouldn't mind seeing HI and Mercs get revamped. While HI specs are still a viable twinking item, the mechanics of the raids are old and stale. The idea of devs spending time exclusively on New things is great and all, but there's so much content in AO that's been ground into the dust of the past and serves little purpose other than twinking our TL4-6s because a single item gives some kind of weird stat bonus or fits into a loophole. The amount of encounters on RK that were meant to be end-game so long ago are numerous. DB guys in PW, the Omni soldiers in EFP, so on and so forth. The mechanics for them, as well, have always been lame. Fiery Soldier is up after a server reboot or someone got bored, logged, and he popped? Cool. Time to get a beeping backpack on your level 1 when you're tired of your BoC. Like the OP said, these really don't serve any purpose other than accumulating stuff for our social tabs. Froob raids? Yeah, it's a nice sentiment to leave them our scraps when a new buffet rolls out, but let's really think about it. Why spend dev hours creating a new playfield when there's an enormous amount of real estate that could be revitalized? Ace camp, HI, and so forth aren't some ancient establishments in a historical district for us to take our kids to and say "This is where we used to raid back when landline connections were status quo."

Want a new expansion pack? Call it "Return to Rubi-Ka" and focus on the heart and soul of this game. Why create new PFs when there's tens of sq kms begging for purpose and tens of encounters that are done out of boredom or because we're curious whether or not we can solo Kronillis?

Coulden't have said it any better myself, 100% agree ^^ rewamp old stuff instead of piling on with new shait.

[Cratertina]

Aye Rewamp old stuff FTW! like Azure armor, why is it not inline with ofab? ot better yet make ofab in line with azure. Ofab, CSS, and other modern armors are totaly OP with all AC's uniformly good. Oldschool armor should be rewamped, it would give us muchneeded equipment options.

[Byste]

Then make it useful to froobs, or instance it at 200!
Seriously, most froobs need barely anything from there and when a 220 can run in and get everything they need in half an hour, it's broken.

We talkin about mercs or IS?

Anyway, Mercs *is* useful to froobs, they're the only ones that want to do the raid for the most part. Azure armor.

Occasionally I see interest in the Tank Armor, and Nelly chip for crat social. And GA fixers definitely want rust-pitted rings. It's not necessary to upgrade the challenge or loot. Revamping the design could be nice, but again not really necessary..

[Ahndracorvid]

Then make it useful to froobs, or instance it at 200!
Seriously, most froobs need barely anything from there and when a 220 can run in and get everything they need in half an hour, it's broken.

We talkin about mercs or IS?

Doesn't really matter, both are useful to froobs.

[Wyoming]

And I was talking bout both.