Current state of loot.
Learn from Diablo 3 they were able to revitalize their game with loot 2.0 when it came out just by giving their players what they wanted, loot. You could easily please your current player base by allowing them to FARM loot. Guarantee a blue weapon/skill make it so they have a 10-20% shot at an epic. There is no reason to deprive your players from loot, give the power back to the players. I've been playing RPGs and MMO long enough to know that players want to gear themselves as best as possible. Currently there is no motive to do that. As you hit lvl 40 you pretty much lose the will to go on, you know that it is nearly impossible to gear your character even if you're a hardcore player. You can't spam instances like BWA and WF hoping to pick and choose loot because it is NOT rewarding and a complete waste of time.
Currently it takes an average of 1:30hrs to complete a Warfront run. The intance is not difficult at all, players are just "stuck" there waiting for some timer to run out. What the hell was the 5 minutes start up timer for at the beginning of the map? Makes no sense. It is a 20 man raid, make the mobs harder not denser, allow players to roll for loot instead of having a burst damage class to last hit for a **** shot (support classes are completely ****** here). Recently, I've notice that some players took that matter to their own hands to bypass this broken system. At the start of WF, the platoon breaks up into squads so that way people can roll for loot among the squad. BWA HC is the biggest failure on loot, after completing the stage with 4 other members, 95% of the time we are rewarded with 1 piece of a green useless mod that we have to roll for making this a complete waste of time, why would anybody want to spend 20mins-1hr to do this is beyond my knowledge. You have the content, there is no need to mistreat your players.
You've recently added a variety of weapons with all sorts of prefixes that would broad the players combat experience, but you have not given them the chance to actually play with them, not even a slight chance. We can't pick and choose loot and play with different builds because there is no loot to choose from. "Oh look at that weapon that I will never even have the slight chance to acquire". By allowing your players to gear up you would expand your game into other areas and players would be more encouraged to participate on BP to test out their gear vs one another(but this isn't the point of this post). Quit depriving your players from loot, people want to play your game but you're just not allowing them to. Let players play your game.
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