Edit - Better idea. Just remove MG. People want to trade and waiting to trade because of some time-gate isn’t making trading better. The people that love SSF can do that. There really doesn’t need to be an MG faction you have to pointlessly grind.
Yea this isn’t it. Such a long, boring, dreadful grind. I’ve said it in other post it needs to be 300-500% faster. You shouldn’t be 100 level and pushing high corruption and still not close to finishing Rank 12.
Keep in mind I play all day every day. Imagine players that want to casually play the game who never will get to the final ranks. Sorry but this feature should be attainable for the majority. Otherwise it’s hardly a feature for the faction.
Grinding for hours then listing 100’s of items to spend favor (you don’t care if they sell) then doing it all over again isn’t good. I got Gold, I see items I can use now but then there is this massive wasteful timesink preventing me from buying them. It goes both ways too! I’m sure that people want to sell their items too and they can’t because the Ranks are way too extreme.
I’m sorry but a lot of these systems need to be unlocked way earlier into the game so people have a chance to see what Last Epoch is about and maybe stick around. It takes too long for Abberoth, Factions, Legendary forging, etc.
When a player is early into empowered this should be finished. LE has a player retention problem and it’s because the majority of players aren’t into these time wasting metrics. Just make the game great and players will want to stick around and play for hours. You don’t have to create time wasting grinds because you fear players leaving.
This is just the sad, I’m annoyed think I see myself leaving soon and hoping 1.2 is better and more player friendly. Gonna take a nap then grind again tonight and hope to get closer. Just a miserable experience though some of these systems ruining what could be a great game.
They are 100% right. Then the fact you gotta do this pointless slog before you can enjoy the game every cycle is annoying.
Well after servers came back up I pushed too 661 corruption and guess what I’m still not finished the stupid MG grind yet. It’s so triggering to have so many restrictions and gate-keeping in this game that just are in place to waste your time.
Sorry, for a moment there I thought you were talking about PoE’s campaign & “early” maps (which “any true gamer” will know is anything below t16!) rather than LE’s factions…
I agree… As a CoF player I might never play MG, but the system looks stupid, especially the part where you need to sell a lot of carp just to level up…
For CoF it makes more sense, since you benefit already from lower ranks, even if the ranks could also use some adjustment
You list 100’s of items for 0 gold to gain favor and have no intention to sell them. They now sit there. It’s wild. Just let people trade. There should be no time-sink on trading.
You say there’s problems with current system and the only way of solving them is by removing the system entirely, instead of giving suggestions that would actually help the system to get better?
Sorry but neither you or me have no right to say “what should or shouldn’t be” in a game. We just bought the game, we’re not shareholders…
That’s for the Devs to decide… They WANT this to be in THEIR game… if you want to help them, help them by giving constructive feedback (not destructive ones, like suggesting they just destroy everything they been working on for years to implement as a trade system for LE).
There is and players are hoping we can get some fixes. Or just have trading.
Often times the removal of a system is the answer. Don’t get me wrong if the system is finished in the campaign it will be painless and not a Time-sink then. So it seems to not exist. However then the question is why are we doing that?
So the real question is why do we need a pointless Time-sink for trading? Why is there a Merchants Guild? If players want to play SSF it’s cool they got some way to enhance that. However Merchant guild doesn’t enhance trading. It’s just in the way.
So the answer seems to be to only have CoF for players that enjoy that while people who play games to trade can enjoy trading.
Right now the Merchant Guild is one of the worst trading systems time-gating in a video game. The Auction system is atrocious to use. You can’t find items to buy or sell. You have to list 100’s of items for nothing because of a time-sink in hopes of some day selling something you care about.
Disagree. I purchased this product and I do have the right. We all do. We are investing in a game and trying to make it better.
Does removing MG make the game better? Yes. Would be having 1 singular Auction where you can see all the items in the game and easily search for them be better? Yes.
They tried to reinvent the wheel with MG and it didn’t work. I think this is an idea that looked good on paper but it’s just not it. I don’t fault EHG for trying new ideas I actually applaud it. Just this MG idea didn’t work. It’s really holding the game back because ARPGs for a lot of players are about Trading/Loot hunting.
I also got Rank 12 after hitting 100 level pushing and farming 700 corruption and ended up at 812 corruption. It took me over 100 hours.
What Rank are you on the ladder? Unless it’s Top 300 I think you are mistaken on 40 hours.
With that said no you shouldn’t need 100 level and pushing high corruption to unlock a feature everyone should have when they create a char that isn’t SSF.
