Hey all,
Making a quick thread to bring attention to these pinatas and how bad their implementation is.
Currently they're only obtainable from the store, for way too many credits, or alternatively, half the rewards were made by modders, given how few people are going to be buying the store pinatas, the creators of the items have full reign over the supply of them, aswell as every opportunity to make hundreds of millions of flux from selling the codes for those items.
Unlike every other pinata which has seen plenty of exposure in either chaos chests, contests or from a tome, these ones will only stay around for a few fleeting weeks, pressuring everyone going for these sought after items to either terrorize the modders for codes, or fork over their wallets in the hopes of getting the loot in the store pinatas.
If this thread happens to get a response, i'd like to preemptively reply to the most obvious answer: No, these items are NOT optional, the moment you decided to put mastery on them, you made them mandatory. This feels absolutely soul crushing coming from a player that wants to collect everything.
Solutions? I can come up with a couple:
1. Make Luxion carry every single valentine item in one of his february or march visits, any later and you'll have missed your opportunity.
2. Put a certain amount of valentine pinatas as an uncommon in the skittering boxes, giving players a new reason to grind for them.
If anyone has any other ideas, feel free to post them.
I urge Trion to push some kind of change that will allow more players to get these items, please don't make it a modder and whale monopoly.
Everything in this thread is also going to apply to the Saint Qubeslick pinatas coming later this year, don't make the same catastrophe happen twice.