WST -- Ill-conceived.

I feel the need to complain about the Weekly Strike Task (or whatever the acronym is; I only know that they refuse to use the obvious 'WTF'.)

I don't care that it's necessary in order to get the rarer incarnate boosts. I don't care that it was badly tested, and a zone-crashing bug got loose into the live game. I can overlook those poor decisions.

What I can't accept is how ill-conceived it was to tell the entire playerbase to do the same task force over and over again.

Last night on Virtue, Independence Port had tremendous lag and appeared to be about to crash at least twice that I saw. Getting onto Stateman's ship was a slideshow. Telling your players to gather in the same zone every single day was a bad decision.

But even that's minor compared to the mind-numbing tedium of doing the same task force several times, on one character or with several. And once you've completed it on one character, that character is too powerful to find challenge in any other content in the game -- not that you can play any other high-level content, because most everyone else is grinding away at the WST.

Issue 19 came with new, challenging task forces that reinvigorated the high level game. Issue 19.5 is a step backwards, instructing the playerbase to re-consume old content for even less reward. The WST is a recipe for boredom, and it will only be played for as long as people can stand doing repetitive tasks. Every player will have their limit; I hit mine in one day.

I just wanted to give the devs my opinion. They made a misstep with this design. Be sure that, in Issue 20, you give us something interesting to do. Please.

LOL @ WTF. That would have been epic had they used that.

Also no matter what rumors you hear lv shift does NOT effect your inf/xp/prestige gain.

They are saving WTF for the War witch Task Force. Of course they will probably actually abbreviate it as WWTF.

I don't agree.

1. Over time this will get people to run more and different task forces increasing variety.
2. Also, these events will obviously be less popular on Tuesdays in the future, but everyone was racing to get a taste of 19.5.
3. Finally, your comment largely represents the gameplay of a powergamer (ie. the person who regularly has time to run multiple TFs in a single evening). Powergamers generally tend toward repetitive content anyways.

Finally, we will eventually, it seems, have other ways to get the Notice of the Well, so our experience will change some once i20 comes out.

its nice that people were actually willing to do a non ITF or LGTF for once without a lot of effort. it might be grindy, but at least we don't have to grind the same TF to get the pieces we need. we have variety, which won't start to really be apparent for a while, but its still nice to see old TFs/SFs get exposure.

Not really seeing how they're being told to do the same task over and over. They're being told to do the task once/week for the rare bits [need what, 4 total for V.Rare?] But the task changes every week.

It's only if you really want that badge for helping people finish the WST after you got your notice that you're being forced to do the same task over and over.

As a sidenote, there's a spot when you're behind the submarine hatch that will let you click into the mission while the hatch is up. That said, they need to really improve that door [and any other door with similar 'functionality' that's on a potential WST cycle].