Definitely agree with this, I’m a solo player and it’s like Conan is my second job. To get a purge requires either a week of playing smart and doing things every 15 minutes, or two weeks of basically just playing for fun and literally leaving myself logged in from the moment I get home from work, until I fall asleep. It’s a lot, and while I do enjoy it, I wish the purge was a bit easier to get.
I’m excited to be able to trigger the purge more often, but I’m really going to miss the Aesir coming and attacking me, or Beast-Tamers with the final White Dragon. There’s so many unique and interesting purge types, and it does sadden me that those will be gone.
While the developers said all T4 purge thralls will still be attainable in this Stygian purge, I have yet to see a single video or post mention them.
Has anyone in here managed to get a T4 during the purge? Each level 10 purge should guarantee you at least one T4, probably more. Heck, in some of my Aesir purges I managed to get over 8 named thralls!
So far I have only seen a Cimmerian Berserker from the cages (which are just the siptah cages for now), but currently the thrall reward system is completely non-functional / broken. Also there are no thrallable enemies in any of the waves. Don’t worry, still two weeks out from release so plenty of time to do something.
As a purge should be. Go to Sepermeru and ask the marauders to be so polite not to kill you. Or any other factions. They will laugh and spit at you.
Do you really think that in the Exiled Lands where everything comes down to killing each and everything a group of treasure hunters won´t try to murder you and destroy everything to get want they come for?
Seriously this walk in the park mentality of the devs nowadays is not what the original devs have ever wanted the game to become. Their core work always aimed at fighting and pvp. That is why we got the purge in the first place. To create a counter measure to overbuilding.
I don´t mind the purge going for gold and treasures and that they try to aim using the shortest way getting in the treasure room. But that I as a player can summon them at any time as many times I want and I will know right from the beginning where they will attack me, because I had to lay a path for them right into my base is not how a purge or treasure hunt or whatever you wanna call it should work.
The whole treasure hunter system is wrong, because its manipulative. A player controlled purge is not a purge.
One can accept this as one of the conventions without which no game is possible.
But personally, I don’t see anything artificial here at all. Many ancient cities, primarily the cities of the Fertile Triangle (Mesopotamia), were built around temple complexes and were the center of worship for the surrounding inhabitants. Paved roads led to the city gates and from them to the temple, so that believers could pass unhindered. There, in the temples, treasuries were set up where offerings were placed and where the priests accumulated treasures. And in my bases, there is always an altar accessible from the outside in the center on a dais, and I place the chest and treasurer under it.
So for me everything is logical.
As mentioned above, the only purpose of the purge, according to legend of the game, is to search for relics. But the purge has not yet looked for any relics and has not engaged in robbery, it has simply stupidly committed genocide. Sorry, genocide of first comers and robbery are slightly different things. Even the most inveterate scoundrels do not kill the first people they meet.
The new purge is more logical: robbery comes first, and murder and destruction come second. Moreover, it is not wandering thugs who are doing this, but soldiers of the Empire sent specifically to take away treasures.
Except you summon them. They dont show up unexpectedly like Cousin Eddie from National Lampoons. They show up like a 2am booooty call for you to have your fun with.
Well, if someone spends all day and night in the game, they can afford a surprise. And those who work and have limited time to play on their computer have always set a time for purge or used the convergence trap. I’ve used both. For me there is no difference between what is and what will be in this matter. In general, I believe that this is a mere convention, along with thousands of others.
Also probably not intended