Stingy PQ bosses since Tuesday's patch?

Discussion in 'General Gameplay Discussion' started by Rarkevan, Jan 28, 2021.

  1. Smashey Well-Known Member

    I dont understand why we cant get a goddamn answer on this.

    There is nothing in the patch notes about PQ rewards changing.
    There is nothing in the patch notes about celestials being added to merchant crate.

    So if its changed can you please tell us. If its bugged can you please tell us? I wasted almost 30 hours if its not working this week and I am kinda pissed and will be even more pissed if it turned out I not only wasted 30 hours on a video game, I wasted 30 hours on a video game that couldnt give me the rewards I wanted no matter what I did.
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  2. Argosunited Well-Known Member

    there's always harvesting ....
    but yes, can we have an answer? I don't understand why we need to beg for one but so be it.
  3. Rarkevan Active Member

    Yeah, PQ's are basically toast. Not much left to do in game, for none-raider, after quest time line done. I loved the community spirit of them too but now everyone is just frustrated. Oh well.
  4. Noxnoctis New Member

    Yeah, my guess is they will not answer because the celestial loot is a gimmick just like a casino video slot machine. I've slowed my coin /pq accumulation now as I've seen first hand , over and over no drops in pqs and junk/trash repeat loot from crates. I have a rant about grouping mechanics as well, amazing this game cannot autobuild groups for heroics. Every other mmo on the market can.
  5. Sigrdrifa EQ2 Wiki Author

    They aren't available to answer on the weekends usually.
  6. Amalar The combined salt from all of SOE/DBGs fallen MMOs

    What is more amazing is that: merc leveling AND gearing, mount levelling AND gearing, infusion, ascensions, stat bloat, lootbox mechanics, poor server performance, AND lack of any good PUG / cross server framework hasn't killed the game yet :rolleyes:

    When they were talking about the AA revamp, I ACTUALLY expected something new, but it was such a joke...

    I am just an eternal lurker now, I am going to die before this game gets the rebuild it needs, or EQ3 comes out :(

    I keep looking here thinking "Do something EQ2" but whenever something happens its like "oh no not that why..."
  7. Luciano Member

    I would like to see some statement feom DB about future plan with this game.
    PQ is stupid grind, but it was way to get some nice gear.
    I have serious issues with it.
    First mechanics on PQ mobs... you cant even practice dps on those mobs.
    Drop rate, before maybe slightly too high, now null.
    I expect such nice loot as rare drop from last mobs in heroics, instead of stupid PQ grind.
    There were added some relic celestial from DD, but its so rare and relic???.
    Itemization is slack, no exceptional items with some kind of proc.

    Ppl getting tired with PQs, no reason to run heroics, first two epic zones too easy .... We get forced to looong harvesting .... where is that content for this year?
    This xpac looks like alibi of devs infront of owners, showing they programmed something, but its missing concept.....
  8. Tanto Done, finished, gone.


    Far too rare these days. I assume they're a casualty of stat bloat, stat homogenization, excessive procs already in the game and all those things the devs refuse to abandon. Last year the most desirable item was a cloak which gave you an additional fervor buff. /yawn.
  9. Randalph EQ2Wire Ambassador

    360 character hours (6 chars 30 hours) since last update and zero celestials from PQ rewards or status merchant crate. If this is working, its horrible now and totally not fair when people got celestials prior to at an increased rate.

    Would love if this could be sorted this week so we dont have to wait until next update.
  10. Argosunited Well-Known Member

    Maybe they took them out of PQ's to reduce lag? Because there's no one doing PQ's these days.
    How about some sort of response DBG? How is that transparency coming along?
  11. Fulton Active Member

    I think they want people to play heroics. But let's face it, if u didn't raid previous xpacs and have the adornments and fervor runes ect...good luck. They are script heavy that require high stats, voice, and ACT voice triggers... I doubt a group that only finished sig line could finish a heroic . Maybe im wrong, but I don't see many people doing heroics, besides the hard cores, maybe ur servers mileage varies.
  12. Errrorr An Actual EQ2 Player

    You can do them if you;

    1. Complete Sig Line
    2. Get Solo Mount
    3. Do all the solo content such as PoI Quests, Dropped quests etc.
    4. Take a semi decent group setup.
    Having around 235-240k potency for all toons in a group at least allows entry into a few of the zones. Quarry is probably the easiest, with very little real scripting.
  13. Dutchman New Member

    1. Done
    2. Done
    3. Done
    4. SK, Troub, Fury, Defiler, Conj, Necro.
    5. About 245k potency on all toons.
    Tried Quarry with no luck...
  14. dreamweaver Well-Known Member

    I have an update on this.

    I spoke to the dev team and the Celestial Drop for PQs was adjusted intentionally. They were dropping at the same rate as commons and that was not intended. The lack of a note in the patches was not intentional and has been adjusted for the future.
    So for PQs it's been adjusted back to the droprate it should have been.
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  15. Melt Actually plays the game

    That's all well and good but I'd maybe ask them to take a look at the numbers again, because people are going 7 to 8 hundred kills and getting nothing. That's just not fun.
  16. dreamweaver Well-Known Member


    That feedback has been shared on Discord as well, I am going to pass it along to the dev team.
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  17. Rarkevan Active Member

    R.I.P Pq's
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  18. Randalph EQ2Wire Ambassador

    This is one of the most single handedly worst decisions this game has ever done.

    I really hope this is looked at this week because for new and returning players, this is a horrible change, its an unfair change and its almost gamebreaking as celestials were the entry into group and raid content for returning players.
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  19. Rarkevan Active Member

    This, exactly. Ok, well, those of us late to these pq's due to RL or what not, wait until next expansion I guess. Never yet have I considered canceling but I think this may be it.
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  20. Benito Ancient EQ2 Player: Lavastorm Server 2004.

    Top/BiS PQ loot has always been considered chase loot.

    It felt like Chaos Desecnding's Brilliant Earring of Alliance was set at 1% drop rate (1 in 100 kills) in terms of precedent.

    I hope the PQ loot won't remain too rare. They should set it at at a 5% or so drop rate to account for bad RNG streaks.
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