does anyone find gear upgrade missions (haha said the name of the title!) useful anymore? with recipe missions, you eventually get that recipe to upgrade the gear (if not make it yourself)....which is a much shorter duration than 2 days of locked up crusaders :P

suggestion thought: turn them into some other mission (aka get rid of them)

i dont know what you mean but you will eventually get every recipe for all your crusaders, no matter what gear you currently have for them.

edit: i guess you meant "waiting" but that doesnt explain why you want the gear missions to stay.

i dont think recipes discriminate against the T2 crusaders, since some of mine have recipes....
but since gear upgrade missions have to be modified each time just so you can
get the mission itself, just easier to do away with it.

Gear upgrade missions still useful for me and be useful for long time. Also, you do not catch they in list if already have all epics.

Get rid of Gear Missions?
WHY?

Once you have all T1 Event Crusader full epic, you wont get these missions any more.

Gear upgrade missions are still very useful!

There is no reason to remove Gear missions from the mission pool.
And im happy that the Devs confirmed that there will be T2 Gear Missions :D

Or are the T2 Gear Missions useless, too? :D

The main reason for gear upgrade missions being useful is:
EPIC CRAFTING MATERIAL

Here is my suggestion:
Do some math...

- how much epic and common crafting Material is needed to craft all the epics that a new player will need to get all event crusaders full epic?
AND
- How much jeweled chests would you need to get all these Crafting materials?
And a new player will have to wait for epic DUPES/epic crafting material.

Im @350k idols and i dont want to miss gear upgrade missions.

i usually get 1/6 epics for the T2 Crusaders by opening the eventJCs...
if i get 2 or more epics, at least one is for a T1 Crusader or a dupe or both.

Without the gear missions it would be really expensive to get all epics by crafting.

Before doing a gear mission, i try to upgrade the gear to r/r/r.
Get a free epic and save the epic crafting material for the T2 Crusaders ;)

why me? I'm not a dev or a mod, just a player like you :D

And I have to say, gear missions are still quite useful.

Since you should be able to get almost all rares on new event crusaders, either through chests or rare recipes, the vast majority of gear missions will give you epics. This increases the chance that epic recipe missions give you something you need, because it reduces the possible outs.

And this is actually synergic with epic recipes: once you have full epics, gear missions only appear for other crusaders, this speeds up the process of getting full epics on everyone even more. Basically once all crusaders have full epics, every epic recipe mission you complete will guarantee you have epics on your event crusaders, even the most recent ones.

I really don't see why the devs should eliminate something that is purely beneficial to us. The 5 crusaders that are locked for 2 days are a VERY small price to pay for what you get in return, especially if you have quite a few spare crusaders.

I actually have an ongoing mission for Groklok right now, and that will give him his last epic :D

quote:
"ihatethisfing
@andreas/bazilus: recipes are practically a guaranteed better piece as well, since you wont get
duplicate recipes as stated by CNE before. eventually leaving rare/epic recipes to
have no choice but to "give" you gear you are missing."


not true, i just completed a recipe mission for brogon and got common and uncommon recipes. problem is that brogon was already epic rare rare for me.

Raymond, CNE said that you can and will get recipes for items you already have at the same level or better. But you will NOT get duplicated recipes: you will never ever drop a common or uncommon recipe for Brogon again.