I think prize medals are best served in the 70-99 TIs to provide a reason for veterans to party with new/estsablishing players. We don't even have parties for people to join most of the time and this needs fixing. We need people doing stuff so new players can level. Prize medals can fix this. Easily.
^this. I've said this a lot before but pvm kinda needs an overhaul right now, it has a lot of issues. A properly done one could solve a lot of problems all at once. I've posted about this and my ideas a couple times before, but I'll put it here again for any visibility/discussion.
Janeway and fencers need to be phased out, they are too fast, easy and abuseable. TIs have done a great job of promoting socialization and party play, make a system based around those and add item incentives like gsbs/woe supplies and at the high end things like elemental armors via badge rewards. Base it in Asgard so you have a centralized hub for it.
Make the npc hand out area-based turn ins with multiple monsters that's randomized in 5 level blocks, and then tell you about the bounty boards and TI npcs in the area they can also find (like the goats one). Give the npc an 8 hour cooldown on a new assignment, whether you finish the one you're given or not. Successful completion gives very very large exp for anyone in level range of the quest when they accepted, and badges for all levels based on assignment difficulty (levels 1-5 are 1 badge, 6-10 2, 95-99 20. GSBs can be 1-2 badges each, elemental armors 1000. Can do woe/leveling supplies, ACAs at like 50 each, whatever you want to add to it). Give an option talking to the npc like "I found people to help with my assignment" that gives everyone in your party the same one if they don't have one already if you are the party leader.
People get sent out to explore and learn about the game and its different areas, kill different monsters, can party up with people and older players (who still get rewarded well via badges that buy valuable supplies/items), and find out about what areas work well for them and the bounty boards and TI npcs that are there so they can go level there if they are on cooldown or if it just works really well for them or their class. Not only can people use this to hunt for GSBs/supplies/items they want, it gives new players the chance to get some of those and sell them to get them zeny as they level. It also brings back the value of items used to level at turn ins like antelope horns for all levels instead of having fencers/janeway invalidate everything up to 70, giving new players even more foot into the market via selling those items as they hunt. The cooldowns keep it from being heavily abused while still making it a good leveling system and system for giving players daily assignments to log in and do together.
Could also add VIP badges, that are only given if you are VIP when you do the TI quest. These badges could be used to buy cash shop and lucky box items (at high prices), making them attainable in game while still getting WP dat money.
Similarly, add the same sort of random MVP turn-in, "easy" mvps w/ low respawns at level 70 and "hard" ones with high respawns at level 85 or something. 24 hour cooldown, really big exp and badge reward for completing it. Makes party mvping more fun and rewarding.
Idk, I just think the whole direction of the system needs to be changed, cause the current ones are really unhealthy and boring IMO.
Edited by rojoky113, 04 February 2016 - 08:44 AM.
