Game Mechanics Raids and their current Reward System

- What is the current issue?

Ever since 1.20 was introduced and raids were added to Wynncraft, their reward structure has felt lacking in many ways. Opening a chest after all that effort just to get a legendary tome, some emerald blocks, a few ingredients and a few T1 Corkian Amplifiers is never a good scenario for someone who put all of that effort into completing said raid.

While the gameplay structure is solid and provides a ton of unique challenges that test teamwork and still feel fair, the rewards for doing such activities are extremely lackluster, and provide no motivation to do the raid repeatedly. This retroactively drives players away from said activity. While charms and mythic tomes are unique and a step into the right direction, there's not a lot of incentive to get anything else from raiding and it just ends up becoming a chore.

- How can this issue be fixed?

In the perspective of game design, an over-the-top system or a complete rework to raids themselves would be impractical to implement, and would take too much time to be developed. Instead, we can reutilize systems that are already present in the game to introduce unique rewards while not interfering with the gameplay and keeping it fresh.

As you may know, there are a lot of dungeons in Wynncraft, and each of them has their respective shops where you can trade the boss spoils for weapons, tools, powders etc. My suggestion is to implement this same "token system" into raids, introducing a Raid Merchant for raids, each with unique weapons, armor and powders, alongside Raid Tokens (named thematically according to the raid, just like dungeons) as drops from the final chest that can be exchanged for said gear. With this system, there could also be Charms and Unidentified Tomes for sale (excluding Mythic Tomes) at a higher price than normal gear, introducing a pity system where unlucky players can still farm these unique items at a slower, but consistent pace.

In addition to that, I believe adding Mythic Gear to the chest pool at a slightly lower rate than the Forgery Chest (~0.4 - 0.7%), with a similar "pity bonus" would also be a good incentive to raiding, and would increase the number of ways of acquiring mythics, which are currently very scarce. While they are meant to be unique and extremely rare pieces of equipment, the current methods to grind for them are either extremely tiresome or extremely unfriendly to newer/casual players. This won't necessarily decrease the amount of grinding needed for them, but will increase their obtainability in general, giving players more options to grind.

- Final Thoughts and Conclusion

Raids are one of, if not the most fun activity in Wynncraft, but they simply lack incentive to be done. Introducing a better reward system would not only establish fair rewards and recompense effort, but would also implement a better gameplay loop for those who want to chase after Mythic Gear and better Charms/Tomes, while still keeping the enjoyment of raids intact.

While the reworked Forgery is a step in the right direction to broaden the ways of attaining mythics, it currently requires way too much effort for a slim chance at it, even with the pity bonus (don't wanna expand too much on it, since there's enough to create a whole new thread about this). To keep the Raid Chest not too underpowered and not affect the economy too much, runes, Mythic Tomes, ingredients, Corkian Amplifiers, Broken Dungeon Keys, exclusive Fabled Accessories (Rings, Bracelets, Amulets) and horses should stay as rewards exclusive to the chests.

If you have any feedback or criticism you'd like to give for this suggestion, leave a reply!

 

It looks good in a quick glance but add a poll please.

 

I dont like the tokens idea, players will farm raids to then trade all tokens for tier 3 corks, which would make them way too chesp for what they are

Making mythics appear in raid crates would be good, but unless the chance is below 1% it would make forgery not viable.

i would suggest just making rewards better in general, with at least 1 fabled item and increase the minimum amount of ems you can get.

 

I stated in the Final Thoughts and Conclusion section that Corkian Amplifiers, alongside other items, should be exclusive to the Raid Chest loot pool, as to avoid that problem.

 

Also I thing it's better to have mythic drop between 0.2%-0.4% because raids are far more fast and cheap to run than forgery

 

I'd probably rename the Raid Tokens to Raid Vouchers, to avoid confusion with Dungeon Tokens (because you aren't supposed to take Dungeon Tokens out of the dungeon). Other than that, solid suggestion. +1

 

This is a great idea! I feel like these changes will significantly improve the popularity of raids. A change like this, along with the new raid coming soon, will 100% make raids more relevant and worthwhile to do in normal playthroughs.

 

no, i dont wanna bore myself to death lrunning, it should be like 0.8% or 1%-1.2%

 

But by doing that forgery will be useless so they need to either buff forgery or keep drop at 0.2/0.4

 

We've already seen token shops with dungeons, and I rather have something different.

Although, yes, I agree that raids should have some sort of mythic gear chance.

 

ok lets do this, agreement
NOG-idk
NOL 0.2%
TCC 0.4%
TNA 0.8% extremely hard raid)

 

Did you tried TNA to say "extremely hard" ? Because I assure you it's not that hard when you know how to beat it, 0.6% feels more legit for me.

 

i still stand by 0.8%
edit: i might change my mind, gotta wait till 2.0 releases, but for now i stand by 0.8%

 

you will see, for me farming to pay forgery is worse than TNA's difficulty

 

good post +1, i remember when i suggested raid mythics a while ago xDDD

 

I would just like to get some unidentified gear suited to your lv

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But it would consist of mostly legendary and mythics would be extremely rear

 

@alexphilgab i am back now and now i agree with u, mythic rates from tna should be kept at 0.6%

 

what make you change your mind ?

 

Another idea would be making charms and tomes not soulocked anymore, and tradable on the market, creating a new market for mythic and fabled tome, and charms.

 

I think it's a fair idea to add mythics to the raid chest, however, I would make the drop chance at least a 1% lower than Forgery Chest. Keep in mind that a group that can consistently spam clear a raid will not pay nearly as much in runes or keys to enter the raid as a Forgery group/person will, and each Forgery run will also take a lot more time than a single raid run provided your group is capable.

NoL = 0.3%
TCC = 0.4%
TNA = 0.5% (+ a bit faster pity?)

Also unironically this. I despise clearing TCC looking for more fabled tomes that I need and seeing destructive or weightless.