i dont see why anything raid related would be on a vendor available to anyone who has not beaten said raid. While I agree groupers got slighted on augs per say ie like the war anniversary tasks for those augs, I also dont agree with augs being available carte blanche unless you have at LEAST beaten the event. for me, no the augs DONT belong on the vendor, War raid augs never were this is no different.
If they put the augs on the vendor, and only the augs, I think their price should be somewhere the coinage a toon could get from this years gatherings. 1000 coins? that is just slapping you in the face saying you are never going to afford this. (true there will be someone replying "I have that", but many don't and will not) The anniversary events are, once a year, relive the event and move on. Yea party. Not Dead Hills pharm pharm pharm. As for the event, dont let the easy raid mow down the trash fool you, bring your big boy dps pants and a clock.. ya need that.
Time. They are still wrapping up TBM and whenever a new expansion opens on the TLPs that gets their full attention. Whatever time is left is spent on their side projects tinkering with class/game mechanics that no one asked for. Anniversary stuff? What they can through together the quickest and easiest in 1 or 2 days is what we get.
I'd prefer they just leave raid in game when 17th Anniversary time ends and increase the lockout on event to two weeks or so. If not, I'm fine with the augs being buyable with coin route. Anything that makes it so we don't have to farm this event next year when 90% of drop table will no longer even be worthwhile
Ive gathered 1800 currency last year from farming Magically Delicious and what alts needed from the other missions. I already prepared my self from foraging all the stuffs needed all year long and its not to late to start... Though I dont think ill have any use of more currency p
i do feel there should have been some group augs available as well. as a raider.. i'd gotten rather used to getting cool augs from raid events AND group events... and sometimes.. more than one from raid or group or even both! this year... one aug... period. sucks for raiders too. relatively.
I Support leaving it in it was an under used raid in the old days and temporary content is just lame in my opinion. People do have vacations and stuff around spring sometimes planned years in advance.
Please leave the raid in. With the limited resources you have and the expectations put on you I think any content released should be kept in game going forward. Also we don't know how many anniversaries are left. Thank you.
Absolutely agree. Make this one permanent. The last Anniversary raid ended up being left permanent so this wouldn't be something new.
Counterpoint, not that this is my feeling or anything, but just to play devil's advocate a bit: Hardcore Heritage Nagafen raid. Not permanent, not even guaranteed to drop augs. At least with this one, you're guaranteed 8 augs per week if you keep it cleared (4 of each type). Is anniversary different than HH, really?
You are not guaranteed eight per week. Each augment drops 1-2 times in each chest. Our first two wins we got one of each aug. Last night we got one melee and two caster. So yeah, it is not a guarantee of eight per... I also don't think the developers would make it a permanent raid. I feel the chances of the augment going on vendor is higher than this being permanent. No basis for that opinion. If the developers wanted to, they could make the achievement be needing xyz amount of wins to unlock the augments. That way those that "cheesed" it the first week now have to win it the "appropriate" way now. Make it you need 5 wins to unlock augment for 1000 coins. Or something...
I'd like to see it stick around. I'm curious though, how many guilds have beat it post fixes? More than have finished TBM? Because if the answers are low, what was the point of even putting it in for such a short time frame and calling it a celebration? I wouldn't understand the mentality behind putting in something as a thank you and tuning for a small minority. What does that say to the rest of the player base?
Not sure about the totals but my guild has beaten it ~4 times, and not yet finished TBM. We generally move at our own pace and finish in the mid 20's in terms of finishing expansions. It's a lot harder with mists no longer being blockable, but cheese strats work too!
Alright, so maybe my numbers are off. We've had 2 of each in all 3 of our wins, so I figured that was just the standard. Either way though, you're guaranteed at least 1 of each aug per win, which does nothing to invalidate the point I brought up about previous limited-term raids with awesome augs that weren't even guaranteed drops.
I think the raid should just give everyone the aug like old anniv raids. Beat it twice. Get both augs. I don't look forward to having to farm this if its put in longer. Farming all of TBM once a week is already bad enough as it is. Gear doesnt make the player. It helps but a bad player in the best gear in the game is still going to be a bad player. We've had tons of dps in roi get fully geared and end up getting booted. Was a wiz most recently and apparently is an all star in their new guild which is mind blowing. I am all for letting everyone get the gear. Change it so everyone gets the aug off two wins and keep nerfing the event till even groupers can join together in a raid and get it.
