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An Idea for Nodestones

PetalmagicPetalmagic
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edited January 2017 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
So, ya know Runes of Riches, Elite bosses...their little magical floaty bubble mobs (Mimics and Genie or w/e they are) Imagine if...in the 200+ maps, they have a chance of dropping nodes :D wouldn't that be awesome? That would help with the drop rate problems some people have expressed...and encourage people to do more Elite bosses together for the drops in the "Bonus" stage (and Rune of Riches)
  1. Nodes from Bonus stage on Elites/Runes of Riches?14 votes
    1. Yeah, that sounds good!
       93% (13 votes)
    2. No, we have too many nodes already.
       7% (1 vote)

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  • MakazeKibaMakazeKiba
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    edited January 2017
    So long as they only appear in the Arcane River area and they replace Basic Potential Stamps in the boxes, I'm OK with this.
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  • genji123genji123
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    edited January 2017
    Seems like a pretty bad band-aid solution to many problems.

    1. That would help with the drop rate problems some people have expressed.
    There is a rumor that there is a bug related to being in a party that effects drop rates, but other than that there really is no problem with the original drop rate of nodes.

    2. Encourage people to do more Elite bosses together for the drops in the "Bonus" stage (and Rune of Riches)
    That's forced. Nobody does the bonus stage anymore because it's literal garbage ever since the purple box got changed to only dropping after the Elite dies. Does the exp or meso still give like 100-1000? lel.
  • PetalmagicPetalmagic
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    edited January 2017
    @genji123 well Im saying the nodes would be in the Bonus stage, not the purple box.
  • MakazeKibaMakazeKiba
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    edited January 2017
    The question of upping the bonus stage rewards in general is a bit of a catch-22.

    If you improve the meso/exp rewards from the bubbles, the botters will go to town about it, making inflation even worse.
    If you leave it as is, then yeah, the boxes > the bubbles.

    I think it's wiser to add the nodestones to the box rewards (hopefully replacing the basic bonus potential stamps).
  • PetalmagicPetalmagic
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    edited January 2017
    Perhaps...just my entire idea was inspired by a Rune of Riches I set off...thinking "Man...imagine if a Node dropped..."
  • AznboiEAznboiE
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    edited January 2017
    Would be nice if they changed Runes of Riches to just give out a 10x drop rate buff for 10 seconds tbh.