Well an amazing solution would have been if they implement the 1460 honing success rate support update and then the thousands of support alts sitting on 1370 finally get the greenlight, but of course the management team had to make further discussions about that.
Another couple of weeks for sure as I am not gonna burn my mats on my support alt just because there is a shortage of supports in the game.
You can clearly see how many supports sitting on 1370 as OW hard is basically full of support and struggling to find DPS!
My paladin is sitting on iLvl 1397 and I just got burned out on the game after not seeing any significant progression for weeks in a row. But if this game is like any other MMO, it’s not so much a lack of supports but rather good supports find static groups to run with. If you’re guild isn’t willing to help supports with lower tier content so they can get to the end game and only expect people who “geared themselves up” then you’re guild is going to have a tough time getting supports to join.
if they bring the honing buff or something to get players into 1415 then we’d probably see a lot more supports, sadly the tediousness, grind, and pain in the ass of doing dailies/solo content is only amplified on support classes and that’s really not something many people want to add to their chore list. i think we’d see a lot more supports if we could just boost one straight to 1415 with minimal effort.
supporting team mates and keeping everyone alive is fun, and i could see a lot of people enjoying that kind of play style, it’s just the task of getting people to that point where they can do raids on supports i think is the issue
Also the new bridge that gives us 2 books will be a struggle on supports at equal ilvl vs dps . I think the Bridge ilvl entry floor 1 is 1325 in kr? Or somthing like that but at floor 25 it’s like 1460+ (For dps) which means support is doomed
I think a global honing buff would help out. I would like to have my bard on 1430+ but she’s currently stuck on 1370 and all my materials got eaten by my main. 700+ leapstones to get my weapon 2 or 3 steps higher.
No one get to complain unless they actually have a support they are raising as a secondary.
My bard just hit 1430 this week. Too bad I didn’t have time to run Vykas on it.
i love it so much when dps characters come to the bard topic and tell me how easy and cheap it is to build a support… 1 relic ring with good engravings, and switness, is 50-100k gold… legendary is 10-20k gold… LOL
nothing will change …
people don’t like playing supports in general
main support will be end content … a lot of supports opt to make same class supports
if people not gonna main supports . you will mostly only get supports for earlier content with alt supports that probably don’t keep a good rotation
Still cheap to gear support. I have 2x 1430 bard alts with better gear than some support mains. I use legendary for desperate salv pieces & relic for other pieces on one (~40k, 4x3) and only legendary stuff on the other (~10k, 3x3).
Yes, there are lots of people overpricing accs for whales. Simply don’t buy those. Keep checking market and plan out engraving/acc/stone combinations smarter.
Bard only needs HA3/Awakening3/class 3 for current hm content. Paladin needs awakening 3/class 3/expert 3. You can get this dirt cheap (<10k). There’s massive diminishing returns on gearing a support more than this.
I will switch to main support when Artist comes out but that’s in a year so it’ll be too late by then. I’m sure AGS is pushing legion raids down our throats so fast by the time the September class comes out it’s too late. Hell Arcana is too late. No one can swap mains that late with how bad this gold market is and the Pheon lock out on gearing up any alts. On top of that they won’t sell power passes or even give us 1 per class release. So we get a power pass every 4 months? LOL what a joke. I usually remain optimistic but this is gonna kill this game for sure.
It’s more fun to play a new exciting class you like then it is to play a frustrating raid for hours on a class you kinda don’t like. Not to mention trying to get relic sets on alts in the future.
