Reintroduce the old Mirkwood/In Their Absense/Ost Dunhoth Loot Tables

Reintroduce the old Mirkwood/In Their Absense/Ost Dunhoth Loot Tables

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June 16, 2019
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Standing Stone Games
Signatures: 17Next Goal: 25
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Why this petition matters

Started by Garen Fleener

With the arrival of 65 level cap to the legendary servers Anor and Ithil earlier this week, myself and many others were disappointed to realize that the gear you can acquire from the endgame content is not a part of the classic loot tables--which are still on-file in the database. 

Not implementing these loot tables can have massive effects on the feel of the next few months' worth of content progression, and not to mention, inflict & exacerbate potential conflicts of interest created as a byproduct due to the failure of their implementation. 

Non-linear loot tables are a key ingredient to the imperative feeling of accomplishment and progression that is so vitally necessary in the game. Previously, we saw the release of Moria and Lothlorien, both of which include non-linear loot tables with non-scaling drops. This level of gear complexity was exciting & nostalgic; the new metas that surfaced following the recent stat rework was new and interesting, and actually resulted in a multi-faceted gearing system that encouraged multiple gear sets and engaging moments where you could swap to an item not in the upper eschelon of the content's loot to provide you with a bonus possibly not satisfied by any other piece of loot in quite the same way.

The players request that you re-institute these loot tables on the legendary servers for all of us to enjoy throughout the Mirkwood/Enedwaith content cycle. 

Other reasons to do so include:

  1. Failure to implement old loot tables could cause dramatic inflation in the player economy due to the capability of buying level 65 scaled loot, thereby bypassing the need to do some of the content altogether.
  2. Would encourage players to experience a broader range of the on-level content over an extended period of time. This discourages the habit of purchasing scaled gear off the auction (out of impatience) as aforementioned.
  3. Would prolong the average required time to fully gear your character, assuming that most BiS gear was acquired from instance locked challenge mode chests.
  4. Would result in a more diverse gearing experience at level 65; the new stat allocation, combined with the new virtue system remaster could create some new and interesting metas.
  5. There's something to be said about getting badass named gear with a self-standing reputation. Getting a [Potent Valorous x of Penetration] etc., just isn't as exciting.
  6. The items are still on-file & updated since the stat rework.
  7. To those of us that were around during the old Mirkwood days, it'd be nostalgic.
  8. It just makes sense.

Standing Stone Games: please consider reinstating the old level 65 loot tables. As the reasons outline above, it would bring about much healthier player behavior, and discourage unhealthy ones.

If for no other reason, this is a legendary server. Where we can't experience the game as it was in the gameplay, the classes, or the content in exactly the same way, we should at least be able to re-experience the loot that defined this era of The Lord of the Rings Online.

 

Thank you for reading. Your players thank you.

- Daddyshark

 

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