Possibly late, but I didn't see this on the front page.
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Karok arm blaster trailer.
I just hate RNGs in general. It's a bit of a stretch, but it's almost like enhancing something. With killing the boss as the equivlent of getting a weapon to the point where you can enhance it. Sure the rate might look high (even 40% seems fairly high), but in reality you won't get 2 of 5 to work. RNGs just tend to lead to frustration for me simply as I'd rather be able to have a reliable idea of when I'll get a drop (say a quest that requires me to kill the dragon 20 times) versus just hoping for a rare drop for weeks on end.
It simply means that the RNG plays so much into if you're a "good" or a "bad" player, that it frustrates me. I mean most of the best geared people have at least a +12, if not higher. You could potentially break a ton of weapons to get nothing, or get a +15 in one shot. And with how stat based Vindi's endgame is, I just hate how that random number generator controls so much of this character development.
Also of note. There are very few drops (I'd say one, Heavy Warrior Hammer Fragments) that are worth over 1m that aren't from a daily raid. Making that money to buy your way out of getting a rare drop requires more rare drops. It's an endless loop really.
I've come to accept that RNGs and droprates are key to all MMOs, but I still don't like it at all. I mean, I miss stuff like the Savage set. The key ingredient was the Polar Bear's eye, which required a party to get the breakoff (which is still fairly hard). I much rather the rarest items be breakoffs that require the party to work to get the drop. The dragons all seem to have valuable breakoffs, but I much rather see most rare items just be hard to obtain breaks.
It looks sort of like red glow on gold, though it is hard to tell. +12 glow is already pretty strong. It's highly enhanced for sure though.
And whoa whoa whoa, you can dye parts of the wings? I thought it was undyeable.
I always thought that face sort of makes you look like a chipmunk.