Sure would be nice if shadow creatures dropped decent loot...

I mean, yeah, the shadow essences are cool and all, but they don't drop often. It might lessen the pain of not getting an essence after a five minute fight if they dropped something a bit better than a tiny bit of gold and a few corpse wax...

 

I started a thread on july 5 on the same topic, it looks like they don't inderstand what keeps people playing a game
Most of my sota friends have already gone somewhere else, i cant blame them, and i cant tell them to come back to try a single new mob that gives nothing
What happened to scalable zones btw?

Luno

 

Players who don't craft want to be rewarded for PvE and those players have moved on. I'm not sure I will bother going to Spindle as I don't really have any interest in the essences. Put some other stuff on the loot tables and make it more attractive.

 

Well, when the scaling scenes first went in, we were told scaling loot was coming. So I was fine with it kind of sucking, since the scene was under development. But its been a month now, and two or three since the first scaling scene; let's see some movement on this.

That being said, if this is their base loot, and it scales from here... I mean, they want us to play their game, right?

 

There are indicators the scene will eventually be part of a larger story. Honestly, the devs should reintroduce the "under construction" signs.

 

Currently it is unknown when or if that will ever be added.....

 

I went to Spindelskog to do some essence hunting solo for half an hour, 10 Vigorem Cavas killed (plus a dozen of "regular" spiders), not a single essence dropped, nice job with the drop chance, oh wait maybe they'll fix it in a "future" patch ...
That's too bad because i had fun staying alive with almost zero hp in some fights

 

Over an hour, 2 essence. Is this getting changed? I’m not sure I’ll ever understand this game’s aversion to giving its players loot. Here’s some cool new recipes from a zone that gives you trash loot, now grind it for 4 hours to make one potion.

 

Didn't the same thing happen with rare fish food?

 

Supposedly Chris has something in the works for foods, maybe next release. I didn't get the impression he felt like making rare fish foods more easily obtainable. He was cagey on the details, but said something to the effect of making the rare fish foods more desirable. But he didn't say "more obtainable."

As for the details he did give, it was basically revamping how foods stack. Essentially you'd get six "points" (for lack of a better term) worth of food. The higher level foods (he only gave dragon stew as an example) would be worth 3 points. The weaker foods might be only one point. So you'd be able to choose between using more of the weaker foods, or fewer stronger ones. He also mentioned doing some "balancing" to make sure that a 3-point food was still better than three 1-point foods. I don't think that's a good idea, because if that means the 3-point foods are still better, you'd still want to use those over anything else, and weak foods would still be useless. Unless maybe you knew you were going to spend a few hours farming in a lower tier area where you didn't need foods so much. But still, I'm not going to make or buy fifteen different types of food if I can get better results just using two. I also felt like 6 points wasn't granular enough as compared to the variety of foods available. If a 30 minute +1 dex food is a "1-point" food and Dragon Stew is a "3-point" food, where does that put obsidian foods? Are they the same as dragon stew, which would be dumb? Or are they now "2-point" foods, and I can use three of them?

To be fair, he didn't get too far into details, so who knows what will actually happen.

 

Sound like at least the essences are getting a bump. Appreciative of Elrond for getting his attention, but kinda annoyed that numerous feedback posts here were ignored, until one of the dev's pals said something.

 

Not true! My but (heh) does not change the first part, as the second part is directed toward another party.