After realizing that I will likely never get any specific rare item that I might want, I looked at some of the upgrades obtainable with raid loot and lost all interest.
Since I do not spend shards (real cash) on gambling for game loot, I would literally have to make it my life to farm items that have well under a 1% chance of dropping on any given run. Hundreds (thousands?) of farming runs for a specific item is not really an option for me personally. (Note: I am basing the "well under 1% chance" on the comments in other forum threads. I suppose they could be wrong, but a lot of first and second hand accounts of farming suggest those chances are plausible.)
And if the base item is unobtainable (practically speaking), why bother running the raid for ingredients to upgrade stuff? (I am primarily interested in caster items, and nothing really stands out as all that useful for casters...I suppose some of the weapons may have value for DPS characters.)
I had hoped that MD would rekindle my raiding interest, but instead it has exacerbated my growing apathy.
Ironically...if SSG just put the base items in the store for cash, there would probably be a better chance of me buying one. I don't necessarily object to spending money on the game, but by nature I am not a gambler. Without the gambling (ie, shard rerolls), farming is really no longer an option.
I guess maybe I will run the raid a few times if it is fun (already paid for it...might as well), but I don't see any long term incentive as there was for some past raids. And I don't know if I will stick around long enough to see the next raid...whatever it might be...the time between new raids is a little too long if there is no reason to run the newest one.
Makes me sad.
Since I do not spend shards (real cash) on gambling for game loot, I would literally have to make it my life to farm items that have well under a 1% chance of dropping on any given run. Hundreds (thousands?) of farming runs for a specific item is not really an option for me personally. (Note: I am basing the "well under 1% chance" on the comments in other forum threads. I suppose they could be wrong, but a lot of first and second hand accounts of farming suggest those chances are plausible.)
And if the base item is unobtainable (practically speaking), why bother running the raid for ingredients to upgrade stuff? (I am primarily interested in caster items, and nothing really stands out as all that useful for casters...I suppose some of the weapons may have value for DPS characters.)
I had hoped that MD would rekindle my raiding interest, but instead it has exacerbated my growing apathy.
Ironically...if SSG just put the base items in the store for cash, there would probably be a better chance of me buying one. I don't necessarily object to spending money on the game, but by nature I am not a gambler. Without the gambling (ie, shard rerolls), farming is really no longer an option.
I guess maybe I will run the raid a few times if it is fun (already paid for it...might as well), but I don't see any long term incentive as there was for some past raids. And I don't know if I will stick around long enough to see the next raid...whatever it might be...the time between new raids is a little too long if there is no reason to run the newest one.
Makes me sad.