@Kat/Cheapsuit/Anyone with the "Vending Machine" Argument
Faction artifacts were never intended to be "hard to obtain." It was simply a way to utilize silver for the new faction system. Earning the rank to wear the gear was what earned you the right to wear the bumped arties. If you die all the time and don't play sigils, you're not going to be eligible to wear those rank 10 arties.
If all the inactive accounts weren't counted into the punkte pool, we wouldn't be hitting rank 10 after 1 punkte. There are probably hundreds of inactive faction siege accounts, all of them having 0 or less due to decay.
So guess what that means? With the current population of siege, ONE PERSON in each faction will be rank 10. ONE.
@Everyone who plays this shard
Once rank is reworked, there will need to be these following things to make a non-insurance shard work.
1. Let cursed arties drop off gauntlet at a higher rate.
-Not only will it bring doom back, but low ranking factioneers, as well as non-factioneers will need these
2. Let ToTs drop again.
-No one is able to transfer to here or from, so why not? There are some key pieces that drop. RBC, Kasa, Stormgrip, Stampede
3. Increase droprates on imbuing ingreds.
-I don't know **** about imbuing, but I know seeds of renewal are kind of ridiculous to farm.
Between all that, everyone will be ABLE to farm up the pieces they need for suits without having to work for months or drop a ton of gold, faction artifacts will no longer be the only things keeping siege perilous alive, in fact, they won't even have CLOSE to the effect they do now, but will be properly implemented as intended, and there will be farming spots to PK at.. (Doom raids, Isamu raids!!!)
Since the above makes complete sense, yet will never happen - the only bandaid patch is to lower the price on the artifacts. Since that is unlikely to happen, and is understandably controversial, we have decided to form our own little insurance policy.
NOTE - THIS APPLIES TO THE CURRENT STATE OF SIEGE
Without the faction artifacts, the people who can't afford to equip in a non-faction suits repeatedly (due to key items NOT DROPPING ANYMORE) are likely to quit, because they can't even PvP.
See why we need dev attention?
