Mercing ended - please explain

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Can someone explain what this is going to do? Does this mean people will no longer be able to help out on T7 raids, and people will no longer be able to guild hop?

If so not cool, it was the only way people could actually amass rewards and gain on higher ranking players in the guild. Guess people will always be stuck with what rewards they're getting and recruiting new members will be impossible. Another cool aspect ruined by EAs greed... Surprise surprise

RangerVortex

Mercs can still exist, but they'll have to be doing it just to help people complete raids and not for any rewards for themselves. So, I'm sure most people will stop doing this but there will def be a few players around who are just bored and want to help people out. Maybe?

BentWookiee

To incentivize players to remain in one guild and mitigate some known exploits associated with Guild Switching, there is now a 48 hour cooldown period where a player will not receive Raid rewards for a Raid completed within 48 hours of leaving the previous Guild.

"Mercs" can still do it, just not as often.

Jerry_Seinfeld25

BentWookiee wrote: »

To incentivize players to remain in one guild and mitigate some known exploits associated with Guild Switching, there is now a 48 hour cooldown period where a player will not receive Raid rewards for a Raid completed within 48 hours of leaving the previous Guild.

"Mercy" can still do it, just not as often.

48 hour cool down that's crazy, isn't the heroic raid only open for two days? And what guilds dont regularly finish a raid in two days unless they're hopping up to a new raid tier? This is so frustrating now all of the top people are going to leave for T7s and the guilds happily raiding at T5 are going to be screwed.

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Oh well before I killed by supporters of ending it... I guess it is what it is

Boxandthefuzz

Why on earth wouldn't you want to do t7s? It only takes 20 people with 2 squads to clear one. The only hold back on a smaller guild is not being able to generate raid coins as fast.

OzwaldEMandius

It's a joke.

With mods there is zero reason people can't clear a raid.

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Boxandthefuzz wrote: »

Why on earth wouldn't you want to do t7s? It only takes 20 people with 2 squads to clear one. The only hold back on a smaller guild is not being able to generate raid coins as fast.

Well if I'm being completely honest the reason I don't like the change is that previously I would hop between 1-3 T5 guilds per day (luck dependent) and earn anywhere from 600-1800+ guild coins a day and 600k in credits. But now I can't do that . It gave me a leg up on dudes getting the bukoo awesome T7 rewards that I wouldn't have placed as in.... Ya feel me

LordRath

Jerry_Seinfeld25 wrote: »

Boxandthefuzz wrote: »

Why on earth wouldn't you want to do t7s? It only takes 20 people with 2 squads to clear one. The only hold back on a smaller guild is not being able to generate raid coins as fast.

Well if I'm being completely honest the reason I don't like the change is that previously I would hop between 1-3 T5 guilds per day (luck dependent) and earn anywhere from 600-1800+ guild coins a day and 600k in credits. But now I can't do that . It gave me a leg up on dudes getting the bukoo awesome T7 rewards that I wouldn't have placed as in.... Ya feel me

And now you have the answer to why the changes

merioonvalhoun

Actually the 'merc scene' was a pretty cool distraction to get more playing time, meet and help new people, and get some extra rewards in the process.

Where it failed was having to leave the guild to do it. Devs should embrace it, feature it, let guilds post to a merc board, let players take odd jobs but remain in guild... could be very cool socially - and the need all the social they can get.

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Anyone can do it ya billy goat it's called putting in work. A little risk reward action some days you hop into a guild that's not raiding and burn your jumps. Now the game just becomes static

Jerry_Seinfeld25

merioonvalhoun wrote: »

Actually the 'merc scene' was a pretty cool distraction to get more playing time, meet and help new people, and get some extra rewards in the process.

Where it failed was having to leave the guild to do it. Devs should embrace it, feature it, let guilds post to a merc board, let players take odd jobs but remain in guild... could be very cool socially - and the need all the social they can get.

+1 gave people something more to do after all of your battle attempts ran out and you completed GW/energy ran out.

LordRath

Luckily since you do it to be social you still can. You just won't get all the rewards that weren't intended.

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Man I don't do it be social I do it to further my teams progression. You still have to put time and effort into it and there's a risk of not getting any rewards... Besides the developers never said guild hopping wasn't intended and it was never discouraged

merioonvalhoun

LordRath wrote: »

Luckily since you do it to be social you still can. You just won't get all the rewards that weren't intended.

well you can't now because youre jeopardizing youre own guild rewards also

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Additionally it's not like you were stealing the top rewards because teams usually had a day advantage. I would regularly come in and put up 750k+ or more be in the top 20 but rarely top 10 so it's really win win, they finish their raid faster get my added daily coins and I'd get the credit bump

Lightside47

LordRath wrote: »

Luckily since you do it to be social you still can. You just won't get all the rewards that weren't intended.

LOL got him there!!!

J0K3R

Jerry_Seinfeld25 wrote: »

Additionally it's not like you were stealing the top rewards because teams usually had a day advantage. I would regularly come in and put up 750k+ or more be in the top 20 but rarely top 10 so it's really win win, they finish their raid faster get my added daily coins and I'd get the credit bump

LordRath

J0K3R wrote: »

Jerry_Seinfeld25 wrote: »

Additionally it's not like you were stealing the top rewards because teams usually had a day advantage. I would regularly come in and put up 750k+ or more be in the top 20 but rarely top 10 so it's really win win, they finish their raid faster get my added daily coins and I'd get the credit bump

While I don't understand your gif, it did make me chuckle...touché

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Not really maybe you did enjoy the social aspect of hopping but who would do that for free? Honestly my biggest issue with this is that they're limiting one aspect of gaining credits without adding in a different method. If they truly cared about the players that wouldn't have eliminated the hopping aspect but would have instead introduced a payment system that rewards being staying with one guild based on weekly production or longevity.

Thor_Odinson1

Jerry_Seinfeld25 wrote: »

BentWookiee wrote: »

To incentivize players to remain in one guild and mitigate some known exploits associated with Guild Switching, there is now a 48 hour cooldown period where a player will not receive Raid rewards for a Raid completed within 48 hours of leaving the previous Guild.

"Mercy" can still do it, just not as often.

48 hour cool down that's crazy, isn't the heroic raid only open for two days? And what guilds dont regularly finish a raid in two days unless they're hopping up to a new raid tier? This is so frustrating now all of the top people are going to leave for T7s and the guilds happily raiding at T5 are going to be screwed.

Open for 2 days...I wouldn't even know. My guild finishes them in 12 hours only because we limit everyone to a single attack. Even so, we get to about 25% left on the rancor after one attack each.

J0K3R

LordRath wrote: »

J0K3R wrote: »

Jerry_Seinfeld25 wrote: »

Additionally it's not like you were stealing the top rewards because teams usually had a day advantage. I would regularly come in and put up 750k+ or more be in the top 20 but rarely top 10 so it's really win win, they finish their raid faster get my added daily coins and I'd get the credit bump

While I don't understand your gif, it did make me chuckle...touché

User Jerry Seinfeld... Another problem u can blamed on Newman... Please tell me you have watched "Seinfeld" the tv show.......

Jerry_Seinfeld25

Freaking Newman

hoot

Should make it 24 hours not 48

tRRRey

LordRath wrote: »

Luckily since you do it to be social you still can. You just won't get all the rewards that weren't intended.

Well said.
Funny how all of a sudden people are ok with guild hopping once the change was announced

Buzzaro

hoot wrote: »

Should make it 24 hours not 48

Should have left it alone, it was the most enjoyable part of the game.

Jerry_Seinfeld25

tRRRey wrote: »

LordRath wrote: »

Luckily since you do it to be social you still can. You just won't get all the rewards that weren't intended.

Well said.
Funny how all of a sudden people are ok with guild hopping once the change was announced

I have always been okay with guild hopping and have always vocalized my support for it

tRRRey

Jerry_Seinfeld25 wrote: »

tRRRey wrote: »

LordRath wrote: »

Luckily since you do it to be social you still can. You just won't get all the rewards that weren't intended.

Well said.
Funny how all of a sudden people are ok with guild hopping once the change was announced

I have always been okay with guild hopping and have always vocalized my support for it

You're definitely in the minority then

WhaleKiller1

LOL who would leave their guild for 48 hours and not get any rewards.

Jerry_Seinfeld25

tRRRey wrote: »

Jerry_Seinfeld25 wrote: »

tRRRey wrote: »

LordRath wrote: »

Luckily since you do it to be social you still can. You just won't get all the rewards that weren't intended.

Well said.
Funny how all of a sudden people are ok with guild hopping once the change was announced

I have always been okay with guild hopping and have always vocalized my support for it

You're definitely in the minority then

I actually don't think I am, no one brought it up before because it was an acceptable thing to do. Why would you complain about something if you liked it. Heck why would you even make a forum post about how much you like guild hopping or mercs who help you complete 7* raids if you liked it. People usually create forum post for things they dislike about the game so there wasn't a lot of vocaliziation for supporting guild hopping but I bet you'll see an outcry once it's gone

amusedam_1

I wish the rule would not apply to your own guild. I would help other guilds for no rewards, but when i come back to my original guild, i am punished if we raid again within 48 hrs.