Beginner players need free identifies

Id all button i looove the idea!!!

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Arkatar wrote:

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CanHasPants wrote:

This is because I grab every magic and rare item I can to take to the vendor for Alts.

May I suggest you let your alt identify them when the time comes? The alt will most likely have plenty of scrolls by then. :)

Edit: oops, somehow my brain missed the "vendor" part... ok, I don't get it... vendor for alts?

Edit 2: ok, brain is back on track... you meant Shards/Orbs of Alteration. Gotta admit it could easily be confused with "alternate character". :)

Lol! Yes, I meant for alteration shards. They are the most basic and easily acquired valuable currency, and I can't not ID blues for them. I've thus far earned more GCP in Alterations than I have found actual GCP. Of course, instead of cashing them in for higher value currency, I used a good 300 of them to roll perfect mods on my life flasks (1800 recovered for BM marauder) but that's irrelevant :). At this point, maintaining a supply of Scrolls of Wisdom is an added hassle tangential to enjoying my character's progress. It contributes nothing beneficial to my gameplay experience, except perhaps a mild amount of satisfaction when a large chest or rare / unique mob drops 5+ scrolls instead of something more valuable. And I think it's at least a little bit absurd to think that's a good thing ;)

my suggestion 4 the "not enough scrolls of wisdom" problem would be 2 change the amount of needed fragment from 5 to 3 (or 4). would improve it a bit imo

I think that it´s good as it is. And i do not like the idea of an npc to identify them... ...stop being lazy people, if you don´t have scrolls get some, there are many ways to get them.

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Vold316 wrote:

I think that it´s good as it is. And i do not like the idea of an npc to identify them... ...stop being lazy people, if you don´t have scrolls get some, there are many ways to get them.

Bitter truth.. Those are the disease off of our community that most of the time slows down the work progress of GGG, unfortunately.

If you think I'm lazy because I do not want to interrupt map runs to make multiple trips to fellshire to farm for white items to sell for scrolls, then I insist you are either an idiot troll, or have no concept of how disruptive to enjoyable gameplay this busy work would become. Particularly when my experience will be: 2 minutes of load screen, 20 seconds of killing, 2 minutes of load screen, earn 2.5 scrolls of wisdom.

I'm sorry, if that's your idea of acceptable game play, then please don't get in the business of game design. Unless EA is hiring..

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CanHasPants wrote:

If you think I'm lazy because I do not want to interrupt map runs to make multiple trips to fellshire to farm for white items to sell for scrolls, then I insist you are either an idiot troll, or have no concept of how disruptive to enjoyable gameplay this busy work would become. Particularly when my experience will be: 2 minutes of load screen, 20 seconds of killing, 2 minutes of load screen, earn 2.5 scrolls of wisdom.

I'm sorry, if that's your idea of acceptable game play, then please don't get in the business of game design. Unless EA is hiring..

+1

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CanHasPants wrote:

If you think I'm lazy because I do not want to interrupt map runs to make multiple trips to fellshire to farm for white items to sell for scrolls, then I insist you are either an idiot troll, or have no concept of how disruptive to enjoyable gameplay this busy work would become. Particularly when my experience will be: 2 minutes of load screen, 20 seconds of killing, 2 minutes of load screen, earn 2.5 scrolls of wisdom.

I'm sorry, if that's your idea of acceptable game play, then please don't get in the business of game design. Unless EA is hiring..

Probably, i should not have used the word Lazy there, the concept that bugs me is that it looks like people wants everything to be immediate.

What i forgot to add in the previous post is the following: It may be an issue for HC players.

I'm not trolling here, i just do not like the idea of adding a NPC to identify items, because i think it's funnier to depend on scrolls of wisdom to do so.

If you are so "Prah" and do maps that often, you should consider doing longer runs for scrolls of wisdom, not just 20 seconds kills. Besides, from my experience in the game so far, i really have not had to interrupt the fun to grind for scrolls of wisdom, maybe because i play different.

I don't wanna upset anyone else here so i'll leave it there.

From my point of view, games are meant to be fun, not to satisfy all our needs immediately.

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Vold316 wrote:

From my point of view, games are meant to be fun, not to satisfy all our needs immediately.

Agreed. I just don't believe low-reward grinding for low value items is an acceptable way to prolong satisfaction ;)

Also, I'm sure it is just a matter of play style. I'm not that "prah" (?? Pro?) that I run maps that often, but when I do (no interesting man meme here!) I use every portal for blues and rares. That means I take my time and loot, and I have no portals left to waste on white items.. it just seems that a supply of Scrolls of Wisdom should be so far below my concern at this level. Ergo, an identify gem would be a nice addition. It'd be worth the GCP for me to buy one, and worth earning the GCP for whomever found and sold it, and I don't see what it'd detract from the game (we already have a Portal gem)

I think they should just remove ID scrolls - they don't serve a purpose, and they only penalize new players.