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The Dev's could certainly make pvp IO's available for sale at the store for 1million inf a piece.
Boom! Problem solved! No more farming for pvp IO's, and all the pvp'ers have all the IO's they need to be on an even playing field with the other pvp'ers.
Even playing field = good for pvp.
Unfortunately, farming = time and time = money for the devs. The devs like money, so they'd much rather you spend time farming loot than spend time pvp'ing (since more time pvp'ing = more complaints about pvp, and the dev's don't like dealing with pvp complaints. It's a real nuisance)
I know it's a pipe dream to think the dev's will ever make the best loot readily available to everyone. Oh well, until that time they can continue to try and balance the IO'd out leet player vs the training origin spec'd nub and find themselves wondering "I don't know why that last balance change didn't fix everything."
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Farming for pvp io's is not a exploit. The reward/time ratio is to much for it to be a exploit. Sometimes it takes 2 30 min matches just to get 1. That's a hour for 1 recipe or roughly 80 kills.
If it wasn't for farmers farming these there would be NONE on the market. The ones that would be on the market would be so overpriced that noone would afford them, then pvp io's would just be useless.
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the fact that people were sucessfully farming them enough to make statistics like this and yet people who actually pvp'd werent getting them should have been a red flag imo.
i hope this bug forces castle or whoever is working on this to put in some supression timer and up the drop rate to make it less farmable and more likely to end up in the hands of actual pvpers.
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Seriously? If you wanted them in the hands of "actual PvP'ers," they would have to increase the drop rate. I have yet to receive an actual PvP io while PvP'ing, and I've done quite a bit.
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@Siphonic
RIP PX, GMW, and the game that used to be fun.
Still playing for reasons unknown.
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Farming for pvp io's is not a exploit. The reward/time ratio is to much for it to be a exploit. Sometimes it takes 2 30 min matches just to get 1. That's a hour for 1 recipe or roughly 80 kills.
If it wasn't for farmers farming these there would be NONE on the market. The ones that would be on the market would be so overpriced that noone would afford them, then pvp io's would just be useless.
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the fact that people were sucessfully farming them enough to make statistics like this and yet people who actually pvp'd werent getting them should have been a red flag imo.
i hope this bug forces castle or whoever is working on this to put in some supression timer and up the drop rate to make it less farmable and more likely to end up in the hands of actual pvpers.
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Seriously? If you wanted them in the hands of "actual PvP'ers," they would have to increase the drop rate. I have yet to receive an actual PvP io while PvP'ing, and I've done quite a bit.
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On this note, i went through RV for a while, a few hours, 57 kills solo later and i hadn't received a pvp io actually pvping. That is prolly the longest i sat down and actually pvped.
And especially after people KS'ing (it's fine, just saying that will detract from you actually getting the kill), and other things, getting up to 90 or 100ish kills can takes a long time, especially depending on the server.
22 50's in Bio
@Siphonic
RIP PX, GMW, and the game that used to be fun.
Still playing for reasons unknown.
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Make PVP IO drops only drop in rated matches. With a greater percentage to drop against foes of closer rating or even just for winning. And then adjust that percentage for chance to drop against people who's rating's are extremely far apart. Then make rated matches blind registration/entrance, so you dont know what you are fighting and so that you can not farm yourself because the system places you in the match and does not let you pick your opponent. ......PROBLEM SOLVED.
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this would be nice iff the arena was cross server. did you steal it from another game? it sounds familiar for some reason.
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I think it's the norm for any xbox live game...cant pick who you fight in rated matches.
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Farming for pvp io's is not a exploit. The reward/time ratio is to much for it to be a exploit. Sometimes it takes 2 30 min matches just to get 1. That's a hour for 1 recipe or roughly 80 kills.
If it wasn't for farmers farming these there would be NONE on the market. The ones that would be on the market would be so overpriced that noone would afford them, then pvp io's would just be useless.
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Or just have a big 30 min FFA 
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I know it's a pipe dream to think the dev's will ever make the best loot readily available to everyone. Oh well, until that time they can continue to try and balance the IO'd out leet player vs the training origin spec'd nub and find themselves wondering "I don't know why that last balance change didn't fix everything."
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rofl yeah...
Now seriously, i understand concern about zones on low populated servers (and i am pretty sure devs didn't even think about it) and i myself don't see how it would be any possible to get any drops there since i actually do pvp on freedom every day and my kill rate due me being is stalker in zones is actually very high HOWEVER since i14 came out only pvp IOs i got was on my blaster when i was farming some casual noob on arena. So normally pvp'ing for hours every day i got like 2 IOs since i14 launch. Now, seriously in this case i really don't mind farmers even if i don't farm myself..why? because i can actually buy something on BM, maybe for ridicilous price but it is there.
Add nerfs to this, so people have to farm again and reslot their toon. Devs promote farming period.
Economy in this game simply fails due demand and supply being way too different from each other and since there is no real controlled way to get "loot" we have such huge inflation on BM/WW. Add roll/trickets/merits idk) for purples or allow people to use reputation they got for kills to roll pvp IOs... I don't see real way to farm reputation ( i mean yeah badgers did farm it but we all know how long it actually takes to get rep due 10 min break).
Just my 2 inf
P.S. i lol'd
Expensive IOs = more months of you playing to get them .... you pay to play per month so ...
Anyways, I hear a patch went live today but I don't think it fixed the PVP drops.
I sent a private message to one of the Devs concerning this exact issue. I got this in reply.
"RE: LOLPvP"
you serious lol?
Pics or it never happened.
I think this is a bug because if im correct you can't get PVP lvl 50 recipes without killing a lvl 50 villain or hero in RV only because you can't do it in warburg you will get exemped. So this is a bug it might've been caused by adding the PVP badges. Also if im correct the game has to post of what they changed in the game... Just hope they fix this soon.
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Just verified ... still not fixed
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merits did. im not asking for that much though, just some small tweak while the issue is hot.
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You can easily farm merits in small amount of time frame. 67 merits in 40ish mins...
Blueside or Redside?
And yes, I LOVE the new merit and AE system the Devs have implemented. I hope that they focus and improve upon it as an alternative to infamy.
You people are so far behind the times.... I am glad I have cancelled my subs.
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You people are so far behind the times.... I am glad I have cancelled my subs.
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its lonely at the top isnt it
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You people are so far behind the times.... I am glad I have cancelled my subs.
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People who don't care are so cool. Must be such a burden to be so far advanced.
Fix is on the test server, with some not-so-fun changes as well.
Hey, good luck to all the smaller-population servers out there, even with the reduction on the rep timer (10 minutes to 5 minutes) you'll still have a hell of a time getting a PvP recipe to drop.
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"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."
"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."
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What's the change? Info porfavor. Seriously I r don't have test up. PM me if you want.
this is some [censored]. I cant believe they call that a fix.
It's not a fix ... it's a change.
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Make PVP IO drops only drop in rated matches. With a greater percentage to drop against foes of closer rating or even just for winning. And then adjust that percentage for chance to drop against people who's rating's are extremely far apart. Then make rated matches blind registration/entrance, so you dont know what you are fighting and so that you can not farm yourself because the system places you in the match and does not let you pick your opponent. ......PROBLEM SOLVED.
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this would be nice iff the arena was cross server. did you steal it from another game? it sounds familiar for some reason.