Luck based progression sucks and its too easy to gear up with grinding marks. So make it both. Using the Corrupted/Exalted gear as the model. After you beat Wave you have a chance lets say 1/100(hopefully Higher) to recieve a codec for a Traces in Time piece. Once you open it you have the option to choose any piece from the set but you would need the marks to actually earn the piece. The mark costs could be inline with the current highest purchasable set or could be increased due to the rarity of the set. I was thinking current price plus half to add to replay badge sales. Breakdown Head 80 Shoulders 75 Chest Legs 90 Waist Hands Feet 65 Back 60 Welcome any feedback or hate with this and sorry if this has already been suggested and I missed it. There needs to be a better balance because it gets old grinding for nothing.
I would rather have a mission in the Watchtower or Hall of Doom that could not be reset and came available every 2 months. The mission would give you your choice of Traces in Time if you competed Paradox and Nexus five times each. That way you could still spend replays and hope, but if you ran it once a week, you old probably have a set in a year. If they wanted to make more money, they could ate the vendor available only to subscribers.
I wasn't suggesting them to be like Hand of Fate because that still relied on getting the the correct piece you need to drop plus adding the cost. More like you would get a chance to open up a Traces in Time vendor with a drop and being able to buy the piece that you wanted/needed with marks. Not trying to change your opinion just clarifying.
Codex for Traces in Time is probably the best possible idea and the easiest for the devs to include. I do not mind random people getting Traces gear, that is fine and I would not be upset to see the other healer or even a healer power DPS get a piece. My issue comes from when people who can not use the gear get it just to salvage the highest gear in the game. Once again last night I saw Traces gear go to waste. A troller got the Traces healer legs and a HL DPS got the Traces healer hands. Neither can use either piece. I got an 86 healer chest which I do not need but the other healer could have used for a stat boost. With how rare the Traces drops are they should be unattuned so you do not waste the drops. I understand some people say it isnt wasting since you can salvage. Sorry but salvaging the highest gear in the game is lame.
A combination of a codex Hands of Fate codex (marks plus luck)and one of the Trigon codex(selectable piece) or whatever they called. Not a bad idea since you won't have to roll against 8 people to get them with the new system in place. I am sure people will still complain if someone else not them seems to get them more then they do. No matter what you do you can't please everyone.
Yea you can not make everyone happy but I think the Codex is the closest you will get to pleasing everyone. I do like the idea of making the Codex like the Raven bounty but that would allow people to get Traces to quickly. I still stand behind Traces should be a status symbol (even though most people with Traces glitched Dox). The Codex should either be a specific piece or maybe when you open the Codex it can offer you 2 or 3 pieces to make not all 8.
I think they should put a vendor for the Traces in Time and Time Traveler armor. The system can work this currencies a)- Marks of Reality b)- Raid Boss Marks (Put the name you want here) You need to grind all the T5 content but also need to beat the T5 Raids, because only the final bosses should drops the Boss Marks that allows you to buy the best set in the game at the time.
All they need to do is make the Traces in Time gear unattuned. It is every rare anyway (i have only seen it drop a few times, before loot changes and since then anyone who has got Traces has got it for the other roles lol). But obviously the devs will not listen. It has got to the point where the vast majority of my league refuse to run Nexus or Paradox, not even once a week, due to the awful loot table. The loot change was good, but since they doen this they should ahve made the best gear in the game unattuned. You can imagine the look on a healers face when he gets 88 tank Traces in Time.
I am much more in favor of it being unattuned with the new loot system (prior, everyone would need everytime). Either that or they need to make it more common by removing the crap loot from the tables. They new dlc is a few months away and there will be better gear then, quit being so stingy with it. They already gave a ton out during the glitch.
