Welcome back!

Thanks!

It was very important that Carbine fix the unpleasant experience of players giving up as soon as gold was impossible. It was creating a bad, depressing, frustrating and very punitive atmosphere, and not only with pug! I understand the purpose of a competitive game that encourage players to be better. But I do not agree with an environment that reward players to be elitist and douchebag. Very happy about the changes and I hope it will have s positive impact on the community.

My experience today has been very positive. And I'm beginning to have doubts about those posting about epics never dropping. In 5 runs, we saw 2 epics drop. Sure, they're more rare (intentionally) but they do drop. So far, groups have been holding together more as well - which is awesome!

I'm happy that the new system stopped the whole "gold or bust" mentality, however, I am one of those who has never seen an epic drop since the change hit. To me going for gold no longer seems worth it, yes the old system definitely needed to be changed, as it led to a very unpleasant atmosphere in vet adventures, however, I'm sure there's a better way Carbine could have done it.

It's still an overall buff since instances are less likely to disband early in the run. Folks may like/dislike the patch for their own reasons, it seems that in the long run more people will get better gear in this system.

I might add that there is some evidence that these changes might not be working properly in live, but you know how forum posters are *raaaage*

Yeah, most of the forum posts have been a mixture of rage and confusion. A lot of people didn't read properly and expected a garentee'd Purple with Gold still.

But I can confirm from my guild that there is a bug with the last boss loot roll not happening. =)