5 hours ago
Yo.
I'll try to be as brief as possible. We probably all know about those two infamous quests, Rise From The Ashes and Rise From The Ashes II. Depending on how much you're tryharding, they require you to actively (!) play the game for quite some time, usually many months, especially the second one. The reward for this endeavour is 5x Phoenix Feathers and 5x Phoenix Feathers + 5.000.000 Gold respectively.
Now to the reason I actually posted this: those rewards are laughable at best, but mostly pretty sad. That wasn't the case before the update that introduced essences, as receiving 5x Phoenix Feathers as well as 5.000.000 Gold meant you could craft a Blessed Sacrifice and another upgrade kit of your choice, which in turn meant you upgrade at least one, maybe two pieces of equipment, regardless of whether you looted anything! This was great, because while getting 5 Phoenix Feathers still wasn't exactly a reward that made it worthwhile to complete this quest, at least it was useful and nice to have. Also, Gold was useful when trading and 5.000.000 Gold was actually worth quite a bit.
Nowadays though, 5 Phoenix Feathers mean basically nothing, just like 5.000.000 Gold, which becomes very apparent when you try to buy anything of value with Gold or when you take a look at the Auction Hall, where Legendary Dust is sold for 800.000 Gold each. People will laugh at you when you try to buy a legendary item or even one single Legendary Essence with those 5.000.000 Gold. To give you a current example, there's 50.000.000 Gold being offered for Gothic Greaves, which might sound like an insane offer, but it's not good enough to instantly be accepted, and Gothic Greaves aren't exactly Volcanic Daggers.
With the update came Legendary Essence, which kind of became the new currency of NordInvasion, since the limiting factor when it comes to upgrading legendary items is now Legendary Essence. Before, completing Rise From The Ashes made that easier, because you were mostly limited by marketplace materials (which is just Gold in the end), but now there's basically no use for Gold anymore, since you need less upgrade kits and the marketplace materials even drop quite frequently from bosses. Therefore, 5.000.000 Gold means nothing, since there's really nothing you can spend it on. This applies to the 5 Phoenix Feathers too, because they're just a less versatile reward than 5.000.000 Gold, since you can't turn them into Orichalcum or Relic Fragments, so they're even more useless.
What I propose is to give the rewards for the two quests its original meaning back by changing it to something like 5 Legendary Essence for Rise From The Ashes and 10 Legendary Essence for Rise From The Ashes II (which is probably still really low, even in comparison to what 5 Phoenix Feathers meant pre-update), so you can at least use the rewards again, both for upgrading and trading.
Thanks for reading it all once again!
I'll try to be as brief as possible. We probably all know about those two infamous quests, Rise From The Ashes and Rise From The Ashes II. Depending on how much you're tryharding, they require you to actively (!) play the game for quite some time, usually many months, especially the second one. The reward for this endeavour is 5x Phoenix Feathers and 5x Phoenix Feathers + 5.000.000 Gold respectively.
Now to the reason I actually posted this: those rewards are laughable at best, but mostly pretty sad. That wasn't the case before the update that introduced essences, as receiving 5x Phoenix Feathers as well as 5.000.000 Gold meant you could craft a Blessed Sacrifice and another upgrade kit of your choice, which in turn meant you upgrade at least one, maybe two pieces of equipment, regardless of whether you looted anything! This was great, because while getting 5 Phoenix Feathers still wasn't exactly a reward that made it worthwhile to complete this quest, at least it was useful and nice to have. Also, Gold was useful when trading and 5.000.000 Gold was actually worth quite a bit.
Nowadays though, 5 Phoenix Feathers mean basically nothing, just like 5.000.000 Gold, which becomes very apparent when you try to buy anything of value with Gold or when you take a look at the Auction Hall, where Legendary Dust is sold for 800.000 Gold each. People will laugh at you when you try to buy a legendary item or even one single Legendary Essence with those 5.000.000 Gold. To give you a current example, there's 50.000.000 Gold being offered for Gothic Greaves, which might sound like an insane offer, but it's not good enough to instantly be accepted, and Gothic Greaves aren't exactly Volcanic Daggers.
With the update came Legendary Essence, which kind of became the new currency of NordInvasion, since the limiting factor when it comes to upgrading legendary items is now Legendary Essence. Before, completing Rise From The Ashes made that easier, because you were mostly limited by marketplace materials (which is just Gold in the end), but now there's basically no use for Gold anymore, since you need less upgrade kits and the marketplace materials even drop quite frequently from bosses. Therefore, 5.000.000 Gold means nothing, since there's really nothing you can spend it on. This applies to the 5 Phoenix Feathers too, because they're just a less versatile reward than 5.000.000 Gold, since you can't turn them into Orichalcum or Relic Fragments, so they're even more useless.
What I propose is to give the rewards for the two quests its original meaning back by changing it to something like 5 Legendary Essence for Rise From The Ashes and 10 Legendary Essence for Rise From The Ashes II (which is probably still really low, even in comparison to what 5 Phoenix Feathers meant pre-update), so you can at least use the rewards again, both for upgrading and trading.
Thanks for reading it all once again!
Would be a shame to put a single Durendal as a loot history...
(ignoring the Ebonwood Pike)(ignoring the Gloves of Vidar)
(ignoring the Rupturers)
(ignoring the Sun Glaive)
(ignoring the Thunder Pike)
(ignoring the Rending Bolts)
(ignoring the Glory)
(ignoring the other Ebonwood Pike)
(ignoring the Dragon Helmet)
Completed Solo Runs: Beginner, Normal, Hard, Cavalry, Ragnarok All Of Them
