Let's stick to one thread to make it easier for everyone, shall we?
I must say, I am a little surprised and a little annoyed at the same time. The tasks involved, as shown currently on PTS, are annoying. And the rewards are not very interesting, with one single exception.
REWARDS
Here's a rundown of all rewards per level, colour coded by Premium (bought Battle Pass), BP+Patron and Free.
1. 300 credits and 1 box of 50 IRC
2. Flaming Eyes and first artifact of BP-only set: Pants on Fire
3. 1 160% Favor vial and 1 orange Opie's Artifact Stash
4. 100 Affinity and 1 Normal Artifact tracking vial
5. Hot Feet, 1 Harvest Levitation crate and 1 box of 5 IRC
6. 1 purple Opie's Artifact Stash, 10.000 Loyalty and second artifact
7. 1 Crafter's Energy Infusion (reset 20h cooldown) and 1 Planar Essence Removal Device
8. 1 160% Prestige vial, 1 Poison Artifact tracking vial and 1 Dungeon Charge
9. 1 Warfront charge
10. 1 Exceptionel Crafting Skill Boost (up to level 450), 1 Harvest Levitation crate and third artifact
11. 300 credits and 1 160% Token Currency Tablet
12. 1 160% Skill point sphere and 1 Underwater Mount Training
13. Hot Hands, 1 orange Opie's Artifact Stash and 1 Fisher's Friend (resets cooldown on special lures)
14. 100 affinity and fourth artifact
15. 1 Mass Soul Mend and 1 Harvest Levitation crate
16. 1 160% Notoriety vial, 50.000 loyalty and 1 Rune Unsocketing Apparatus
17. Blast Off
18. 300 credits, 1 Burning Artifact tracking vial and the fifth artifact
19. 1 Twisted Artifact tracking vial and 1 Warfront charge
20. 1 Harvest Leviation crate and 1 Celestial Crafting Rift Lure: Bountiful Fire
21. 1 Large Sack of Currency and sixth artifact
22. 1 box of 20 IRC
23. 1 Crown of Flames (costume helmet), 1 Nightmare Artifact tracking vial and 1 Brevanic Portal Battery
24. 300 credits and seventh artifact
25. 1 Dungeon Charge and 1 Harvest Levitation crate
26. 1 Wings of Flame (costume cloak) and 1 Planar Essence Removal Device
27. 1 Unstable Artifact tracking vial and the eighth artifact
28. 100 affinity, 1 orange Opie's Artifact Stash and 1 160% Experience vial
29. 300 credits and 100.000 loyalty
30. 1 Great Balls of Fire mount, 1 Harvest Levitation crate and the ninth and final artifact of the Pants on Fire set.
Sidenote on number 20. The icon for the Patron reward is placed as if there is supposed to be a Premium reward as well, but the icon is not showing at the moment, so I do not know what it is supposed to be. It does feel odd that there isn't a regular Premium reward, but it could be intentional.
Premium: The rewards that are just a name, are visuals. Pictures in bottom of post. They are items in your bags you can use, with no cooldown. The Wings of Flame looks absolutely awesome, no doubt about that. But any of the other Premium rewards, even the helmet and mount, are just not very interesting. A total of 1500 credits and 300 Affinity, that's a tiny drop in the ocean if you want to buy anything fun. And considering that the BP takes place over a long period of time, it's honestly not very good rewards considering we have to pay to get them.
Patron: For the Patron rewards, the 160.000 Loyalty is okay for someone that has not yet spent a lot of money on this game. For people in the later Loyalty tiers, it's a drop in the ocean. Lots of Artifacts can be found with the Patron ability already, adding a few stashes and trackers is nice, but not really anything that would make me pay for Patron. And the Harvest Levitation crates are way too random with their rewards already.
Free: That brings us to the rewards that I assumed would require purchase AND patron, but is actually for everyone. This is the only way to get that particular artifact set and there are currently 3 rewards listed in the artifact window. A standard reward box for completing a set, a title (Pants on Fire) and a visual, also Pants on Fire. I don't know if those rewards will be worth getting, but it's going to be so annoying if you somehow do not get to level 30 in time and miss out on the last artifact of the set. The other rewards have very limited uses.
ACTIVITIES
The activities visible right now on the PTS are mindblowingly stupid. My old level 65 PTS character already had 2 completed, both were for lowlevel instances on day 1, and day 2 had me explore a zone which was also autocompleted. That in itself is not bad, but here is a list of the others I've had over the days.
Daily:
As a Primalist, win a match in The Codex.
As a Primalist, win a match of Library of the Runemaster.
As a Cleric, win a match in The Black Garden
Kill Carriers of the Fang of Regulos 0/3
Pick up Rune Vessels in Library of the Runemaster 0/3
In Karthan Ridge, defeat enemies near your Power Cores 0/15
Complete Instant Adventures 0/10
Cast Soul Recall
Weekly:
Harvest 100 Burning Artifacts 0/100
In Tyrant's Forge, kill Crucia at a level that grants experience
Win 5 matches of The Black Garden 0/5.
I've highlighted theitems in red. I personally do not mind having to go to specific Warfronts and do specific things that you might be doing anyway, but using specific CLASSES is NOT a good idea! Not everyone plays all classes, not everyone has access to all classes, or all souls for that matter. Primalist in particular being bad because it is a pay-to-play class.
Having to gather 100 artifacts is okay. But 100 of a specific type is not okay, even if it's a weekly. The vials required to even see the artifacts (if you're not lucky in proccing the relevant sight or can use the patron ability) cost credits. No, no and
Killing Crucia in that particular instance is not really a problem. A level 70 still gets experience from it without having to mentor down. But it's in an old instance that requires a raidgroup to even enter? Do you really expect us to get a group going, just so we can finish off one quest? And what about the following weeks, where it might be an even lower level required? We would need more people to do it. This may sound like a spoiled kid complaining that he cannot play a MMO solo, but all the other activities CAN be done solo (queue for WF or IA, gather artifacts), so why not this too?
OPINION
I like the IDEA of the battle pass. It is similar to features in other games that I play and they're nice.
I do NOT like the rewards or the fact that I have to pay money to run around doing stupid stuff instead of what I want to be doing. And only for a limited time.
I can see the potential for the future, as a permanent feature that just slowly gets more rewards added as levels are increased. But as a limited-time feature that may or may not fit the real life schedule of people, with very specific requirements to fulfill objectives, no. Not a good idea.
SUGGESTIONS
DO NOT use specific classes as a requirement.
DO NOT use old raids that require a group to enter.
DO NOT require raid/dungeon boss kills to grant XP in order for them to count.
DO NOT require specific items that are hard to get for the majority of people.
DO add objectives like "do 1.000.000 damage" of specific types (physical, death, air etc.).
DO add objectives like "kill 100 rift invasions".
All for now, will edit in more as I think of them. Feel free to post your feedback here, so we can stick to one thread.
Flaming Eyes on my character
ALL visuals, helmet, wings and mount on someone AFK in Alittu, so everyone can see it. It doesn't look good on a picture, it is much better when in motion. Go see for yourself.
Edit: It was pointed out I had the reward categories mixed. Fixed that and slightly changed feedback accordingly. Also added pictures and listed rewards for set completion. Added more daily tasks.
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