I want to start off by saying, I truly love this game, and I want it to succeed wildly. Please consider hearing us out.
These changes as they are, is changing the atmosphere of the game in a really bad way. The elite chests are on 23 hour cooldowns. My server, sannikov land, is very small, we have 300 players on at most generally.
I schedule a elite chest run/portal farm, every single day for the late night players. I can list the names of 30 to 40 people that I see everyday, that we badger each other to come and play and do the run if we see one of us is missing.
These changes are going to kill this form of open world content for us. I’m not even talking about the the lowered amount of gear from elite chests, but making it so now, a group of 30 simply cannot do corrupted portals or the bosses (Which I might add, the bosses already had a disincentive because only 5 of us could even get loot from them), we now have no reason to play together, on an MMO.
The corrupted portal farms and zerg chest farms, while many didnt like it, I loved it. I spam fun music for my friends in proximity voip, we laugh about who got double tapped killed during the run or who got knocked off, or who got lost, or who couldn’t make the climb up, etc.
You guys are taking away a major social aspect of the game and taking away a major form of content.
If you guys want less people to run together and do these events, you should have turned them into once a day expeditions that dont require tuning orbs.
Punishing us, your average players and casual players, because you want outdoor content to be just like instances content, is not fair, to anyone.
Expeditions should receive buffs to their loot drop amounts if you want to see people doing that more. But 5 man dungeons are not as fun as Invasions, portal farms, and chest runs, and you are really taking something away here from the games social fabric. Please reconsider this scaling change.
This post doesnt even touch on how bad it will feel to have other groups grief you on a boss and run in to change its scaling so you all die so they can kill the boss. This is a bad change because of how it impacts the insividual community’s of this game and the game and world will feel smaller if you keep these changes in. Please, please, reconsider this.
I don’t want to not be able to play with all my friends. I don’t want us to constantly be griefing the other trying to ruin their boss kill so we can steal it. These are not good things for anyone.