I have been nothing but excited and I havenāt found a single gnomeā¦
Devs:
We donāt want crazy rewards, we want ANYTHING different to happen during gameplay. That makes it exciting! When I read gnomes were spawning about every 30-40 battles, that felt right. Iām over 100 without any and this just feels wrong. Besides, the gnomes themselves drop random rewardsā¦ SOā¦ by making the spawn rate astronomically low, you are sort of double gating access to new features like the Gnome Vault. Should it be rare to get a GV key? Absolutely! Should I have multiple opportunities to toss the dice at a chance for one per day? IMHOā¦ ABSOLUTELY!
They drove people away with Guild Wars. And now this. Let em kill their own game if thatās what they want. (Oh, and I opened just over 1000 event chests and didnāt get Divine Ishbaala or any mythic this week)
I got super excited for Gnomes when I read the patch notes. Then I looked at the rest of the forum and my excitement dropped to zero.
Instead of nerfing the encounter rate, cut the rewards to 1/3 of what they currently are and put the encounter rate to what it was at release. Then, during the Gnome events, return the rewards to what they are now without touching the encounter rate. That would maintain the FUN element of finding them now, and still make finding them more special during events.
And ban @Tacet from the forums for 24 hours every time an update is released.
I over slept. So no gnomes for me.
No real changes to the game to be excited about until Monday now. So unfortunatelyā¦ Back to the real world for me for the rest of the week. Not gonna spend 40 hours in the game to see a Gnome onceā¦ Oh and if it gets away before I can kill himā¦ Wellā¦ Should I start a crowd funding page to buy me a new phone before that happens? Lol
As a form of catharsis, fan lore will give the gnomes an extremely dark backstory:
Cedric is a prince who lost his birthright to the throne when the king and queen were assassinated in a military coup dāetat. Driven mad by rage, Cedric releases deadly pathogens, which he keeps in his sparklesack, that devastate his race. The treasure gnomes are former Sparklesack agents psychologically traumatized by the war crimes they committed. Cedric hides in the vault with the vaccine, but the hero is too late. The gnomish population is destined for extinction because they could not find the key in time.
I am tired as hell from this gameā¦ These gnomes were a breath of fresh air, they can go nerf there gems etcā¦ Just give them gold drops to do legendary tasks withā¦ I mean hell they already nerfed LT time and time againā¦
So what did this update actually do besides introduce a new currency and an event locked behind gems and a new troop locked behind grinding? Oh yeah, the menus changedā¦
Iāll see for myself on Monday I guess. If it doesnāt entertain Iām gonna take a hiatus for a few months. Bored as hell of this. Level 1000something, VIP level 5 , have mostly everything, great guild, etc. Just bored.
I just got one in pvp. Tact got one in arena. Yet to hear of anyone getting one in explore. Pretty sure the odds in explore are zero. Unless someone finds one soon.
Oh yeah, the menus changedā¦ 