Runes of Magic US / AU

A few guildies and I were talking about poms, we had an idea of removing them completely from the world bosses (this would prevent guilds from hoarding the poms from their servers). We were thinking about adding them to the final bosses in ToSH, KBNH, Beth, and Belathis (each time a new 12 man comes out, make proofs drop from the highest 4 raid instances). One proof per boss per player per day and make them bound. This would allow the players who can run this stuff to be able to get their proofs, without needing to fight with others AND give players a reason to run the older instances. It would be better for the population in general and Gameforge with more cash shop purchases.


The world bosses could drop level appropriate gear (ie like the low level Wodjin does with the healer pants). It would give players a reason to still kill the 75 level world bosses, without giving any group the ability to monopolize the proofs. Of course the 75 would stay the way it is for the proofs for the 60 elite skills.

I'm sure a lot of people who can farm the world bosses are going to hate this idea, but I think it would be good for the community as a whole.

Quoted from "karmakarma"

several of us have suggested the exact same thing already, i was the first to suggest this then each month someone else does the same, you are the 4th to post it, they arent listening but im glad to see people havent given up yet

Just trying to find ways to get more people interested in the whole range of content.

Quoted from "thebadtouch09"

Orrrr since we have so many types of currency all ready, replace proofs with mems. Done. Make each current proof pull 2k mems.

Why do we need diamonds, ptokens, shells, proofs, mems, eojs, w/e those diamond crystal things are, honor points, badges of honor, and badges of trial. I think we're a bit overboard here.

Making them mems would be a bad idea imo, simply because people can farm up over 1k mems a day pretty easy. Dedicated people can farm up 3k, this would give people the ability to pull proof gear daily, which is too often. Every other day and making them drop in instances fit the theme of proof gear being better than the rest.

Quoted from "thebadtouch09"

Quoted from "Ziav"

Quoted from "thebadtouch09"

Orrrr since we have so many types of currency all ready, replace proofs with mems. Done. Make each current proof pull 2k mems.

Why do we need diamonds, ptokens, shells, proofs, mems, eojs, w/e those diamond crystal things are, honor points, badges of honor, and badges of trial. I think we're a bit overboard here.

Making them mems would be a bad idea imo, simply because people can farm up over 1k mems a day pretty easy. Dedicated people can farm up 3k, this would give people the ability to pull proof gear daily, which is too often. Every other day and making them drop in instances fit the theme of proof gear being better than the rest.

Thats the whole POINT. Proof are game breaking and only expand the massive rift in gear between endgamers and midgamers.
How many guilds can even succesffuly clear tosh? KBNH and BETH and BELA are out of so many peoples reach, so for the most part you have a shot at AT MOST one proof per day with your suggestion. NONE AT ALL with how the game currently is. That means those who have proof gear get to keep it, its still the best set in the game, its still 2 zones a head of yellow stats. Those who dont have proof gear never will. End of story. Proofs are GAME BREAKING.

How many guilds are even TRYING to clear them? This gives guilds a reason to try to clear content they gave up on. Too many people are looking for other guilds to clear content. This gives everyone a reason to want to run this stuff besides the outdated gear. THIS gives people a chance at getting proof gear without making it so easy that it begins to flood the market.

Quoted from "thebadtouch09"

At the very least, mine is trying to progress. We do gch and tosh a few timse a week. But if endgame guilds get proofs every day from 4 instanecs, vs mid game guilds getting maybe 2 a week....see the balance issue there?

Versus guilds that currently farm these bosses now and keep all 10? 15? that drop? No I don't see balance issues with limiting every player to 4 proofs per day.

Quoted from "thebadtouch09"

Its technically 5 now because of the level difference, and thats 5 per raid.

Im saying it should be EVEN MORE balanced than your suggestion. At the very least all instances at the their maximum possible level from level 70+ should drop one proof per day for each person on the run.

Meaning Tosh. AC norm. KBNH. Bedim Nomr. Beth Hard. Bela.

Easily 3 per person per day. Tosh AC and Bedim (if its ever fixed). 6 for endgamers.

Vs 4 for endgamers, 0 for mid gamers per day.

Vs 0 for everyone (realistically speaking atleast) as it currently is.

I purposely did not include 6 man instances. My idea has it so that if you do ALL the 12 man instances beginning with ToSH, you would get a MAX of 4 proofs per day. Considering the current proof gear is 7 per pull, 4 per day isn't that unreasonable. Today on Govinda, one guild killed Wodjin in all 3 channels, so even getting 5 per boss, that's still 15 they got. Taking them off the world bosses and moving them to instances would prevent any guild from doing just that. It would give EVERY guild and EVERY player a chance to get them. Players would want to run the instances that dropped the proofs, so they wouldn't need to rely on pure luck to get a proof. It would be something they could have some control over.

So evidently my original suggestion really hit home with a certain guild on Govinda tonight, since they called me out in world for making this thread. They evidently don't want anyone challenging their monopoly on pom's. This is the perfect reason to get rid of them from world bosses. It creates nothing but drama and greedy players. It's been a long time in the making, but that guild has pretty much ruined the economy on Govinda, nothing like selling chest drops for 75m just for set skills.