Daily reminder that some characters have been hard-nodes-only since 2015

"Olga;c-1186844" wrote:
Well it's not up to me to decide, it's up to CG and they're the ones you're trying to convince. You're posting as if the argument has been settled and change will result from it. However, I'm not the one who needs to defend my stance as I'm not the one trying to change anything. The arguments I've seen for making the changes make no sense to me and boil down to people complaining they don't like the grind for a certain character. Even the new player argument boils down to not liking the grind for a certain character. If a new player really wants an FO squad, they will do the grind for it, because that's what it entails. It's what I did, because that's what it entailed.

From your point of view, you are in a position where you feel you have 'wasted' your time farming shards to supplement your other farms and you have now decided you want FO characters. Knowing how long it takes to farm them, you now regret your decision to supplement your other farms and wish you had focused on FO characters earlier (while people who focused on FO missed out on the supplemental shards you benefited from during that period). If you had done that, you would have them finished by now. You regret your previous farming strategy and want the game changed as a solution to your own mistake. Personally, I think that is a bad reason for changing game mechanics and a bad reason for devaluing the acquisition of these sought-after characters.

I don't regret any farming decision regarding hard nodes. I used them to speed up the current projects i was working on for maximum efficiency. If i would have farmed FO i would have considered that a mistake. Where i'm at now it doesn't really matter if i farm 2 or 3 hardnode only characters, it won't hurt my overall performance that much. (mainly because i already farmed the more effecient alternatives).
This resulted in my not having certain teams, wich i'm fine with. Can't farm them all anyway. It's just a shame that a perfectly mediocre faction team like FO is hidden away behind a relatively long farm. Their counterpart for example, resistance, had both it's hard node only characters added to the guild store. Not sure why people who farmed/were farming FO aren't PO'd about that to be honest. It's like they're happy with the fact that they got the short end of the stick and see it as a point of pride or something.
For the record, my FO team isn't half bad, but like i said, i'm at a point in the game now where it doesn't really matter that i'm farming multiple hard node only characters.