Work In Progress Introducing The R&D Gear System!

Thanks for the quick response...fingers crossed it becomes one of the drops in the new content down the road, as it is not in rare style vendor.

I want to be super excited but I also want to know the costs related to these plans and other components you have to buy in order to craft the gear. If it is a time sink (which it is) and a Mark sink (which it is) then I think it should be a bit cheaper (not much maybe 5 marks or 10 depending on the gear) to make the gear. You have to save up mats, run the content, save up marks. Or just run conent save marks and buy the gear. Just my thoughts

1) that makes sense it encourages you to play other things rather then just trying try your luck on rate drops in raids with out fear of losing your luck reset counter.... This helps remove "only luck" to gear up

2 ) this is unfortunate but if it's because right now other things are more important and need more dev time it's understandable

Can you give us a ballpark estimate on how much gameplay is required to obtain enough mats to craft the rings and face?

there will always be players that get carried through content by there friends get over it! there was a time when none of us knew how to play this game..

the carrying generally happens because someones friend starts playing and they are helped to the top so that they can all run content together. this is good for the game long term because if the person has fun they stay, buy things and learn how to play as opposed to having to lvl and learn alone and get bored due to seeing their friends off doing one thing while they cant run any of it causing people to quit and the game looses a potential long term customer.

see what i did there showed you a positive side to what you considered just you having to carry unskilled people

Yes as in if you want chest and legs in Episode 18 from crafting, from the first post at least, you should be able to get both just as new plans come out in Episode 21.

While Face is one item on the 2nd month to craft that isnt dropping in game, the Rings on the 3rd month are actually 2 pieces you will need for a complete set. Are the cost reflecting this issue?


Looking forward to it

You'll note I mentioned that in my first paragraph it would come down from rare drops and you'll probably not need to spend over a year on a set. However his info mentioned 6 weeks to craft a piece and 3 pieces that can only be aquired via crafting not drops/vendor purchased and that's what I'm talking about in my second paragraph. You will never have gear that is fully CR appropraite to the current cycle in this system but will at best have a ring or mask that's not equal to the content you're doing and that's assuming you don't need to craft something else that isn't dropping for you and that you can save up scraps in the first month to craft it (since 2nd month content will reward more scraps/cost more than first month content and less than third). Several somethings given the duplicates I've seen.

I do understand that, but from what is experienced on the forums, the people who run elite are the ones complaining about getting 112 gear in place of ones that says "elite" in the name.

I know you guys are scrambling to get this launched and I'm excited to know this option will be coming out. I really like this. I also really like the changes to dropped weapons. Where you get to pick the one you want. It is frustrating to get dual pistols 5 times in a row. lol

I just have one question, and sorry of you already answered it, is the only gear that will drop the component be from Episode 18 to 21?

Also, and this is on another topic but I believe it needs to be addressed, this system does give us the freedom to run more content and not be stuck on the newest only, but with only one alert per cycle it's hard for players with small leagues, or no leagues at all to use this system. Duos and Raids alone aren't the only content of the game but seem to be the only one that matters, so please make more alerts, you said the data showed more people did raids, well of course they did since that's where the best gear was, but it doesn't mean it's what they really like to do more.

I keep seeing people say 6-8 weeks to make a piece, but from what was written the intention is that it takes 6-8 weeks to make the whole set of gear from each episode.

Epi 18 drops chest, legs,hands, and waist. So by the the time episode 20 rolls around when the next best of these pieces drops you should have all the rare gear from 18 via crafting or drops.

Correct, the relevant mats to make the gear will only drop from the current content cycle. So starting with E 18, only E 18 gear will salvage into the components.

No, they are estimating that it will take 6 weeks to make 1 piece of gear not using replay badges and playing an average of 5 days a week.
This is a complementary system, not a replacement.

Sorry read too fast lol It will take 6-8 weeks or so to make One piece of gear. Its basically to get the "one piece of gear" that you were missing like for a lot of folks, the Feet

It all seems fair to me. Personally, I prefer the R&D route than simply best gear in vendor.

Anywho, Salvaging should still count towards salvaging? I'm sure we just need to keep an eye out to make sure it counts once the system starts.

Will crafting the gear count towards our crafting feat?

And I do think that you should perhaps keep the face mask in the loot table and not R&D only. 3 pieces that require the R&D, especially if we're talking the prices (70sh perhaps) that's being thrown around is a bit much. I am looking for more uses for marks and it looks like this system would be enough.

I guess I was wrong. This is less exciting b/c it still allows the opportunity you won't get all 4 of the rare pieces while it's the best. If loot drops are better, this point is moot. I guess we'll have to wait and see