Ever since Update 67 back in September I’ve enjoyed seeing Fiona’s weapon crafting get more attention as a viable time sink for endgame gear. However, I’ve found the badge redemption/exchange quest to be very tedious with very little return for the time and effort put in. Knowing it is a very niche corner of the game that not many players participate in, I would like to gauge interest and collect some thoughts from the community about what some ease of access changes to the Badge Redemption / Exchange Quest in Dead Man’s Gorge could look like, as I believe the weapons are both beneficial for newer players and a nice option for those who find them nostalgic. I’d also like to draw attention to the fact that all the way back in Update 67, we were told that all iterations of the Raven’s Eye crossbow received the following buffs: … and yet, according to this bug report from October 2020 addressed by @Joong in March 2021, the crossbow itself had been missing from the game files the entire time up until Update 71. For those of us, Marksmen especially, who have been redeeming badge rewards in the hopes of obtaining this buffed weapon only to find it's been time wasted, it feels fairly disheartening. So, for those committed to this exchange quest and those who would like to find a start, I think some further attention and QoL changes would be beneficial for this area of the game. Some ideas being: Changing Joko’s badge turn-in cooldown from once every 24 hours to once every reset, like voting and fame. Being able to view a list of redeemable items via Joko that reflect what’s actually in the code, similar to viewing Mo's goods. A buffed drop-rate for badges, if not flat across all mobs, then perhaps a boosted drop-rate in the Cavern maps along the ascent up the mountain to encourage grinding outside of the Keep. Either remove the meso reward option across all badge sets or lower the rate of which you are rewarded mesos. Adding the Raven Ninja Bandana to the code (as Owl reveals nothing), bring the slots up to 10 and reduce level req. Make it something akin to a better green dana that takes an invested grind to get, or add as is for the sake of being a flex item. I'd appreciate your thoughts, criticisms, additions, etc.
I honestly feel these weapons need to be easier to craft and buffed a bit more as well. I also agree to just remove the redemption cooldown. Great suggestions ~
My feeling is that introducing an extremely rare and difficult to obtain xbow that can potentially be better than an end game xbow because of its speed is a bizarre way to dangle a buff in front of mm of all classes instead of slightly improve some of their skills (the truth is it wouldn't simply be a buff it would probably be the optimal xbow, meaning everyone needs it) The speed/speed infusion creep is hurting classes and making the mule or bucc dependency a problem instead of a perk. Weapon speeds shouldn't be toyed with as much, especially on slower weapons, there's more appropriate ways they can be tuned to get the same goal. The odds of this daily exchange request are a huge time sink too. If the staff think the night raven is an appropriate way to improve the already tiny mm population that probably aren't doing this EQ, why don't all classes have to chance their time to find some ultra rare high speed weapon that could bypass SI (and also just have awful stats if anyone ever finds one). Just have it drop from dunas2 or nibergen or relik or some unpopular boss. Or also add an extra drop to crimson guardians (not crimson hearts, or maybe crimson hearts idk) that can also be traded to joko so ppl that farm hearts can also do the EQ
MM still need buffs but this thread isn't about that. It's about making this cool weapon viable and more available.
Wasn't just talking about mm but it's related because their potential best weapon is buried in this eq
Bumping this so we can make a gang of Raven Ninja Bandana dudes and run around crimson wood being ninjas and win all the omok games
