Celtic Heroes

Then essentially once you hit 190 or someone mentioned you can be lvl 200 and not hit by the lock deal then there's no point in leveling...only camping which is essentially doing nothing but staring at a wall.

Then the answer it would seem is to level to 200 and get as luxed out as possible and then outlock those that stay under 199.

Let me ask you this since you're saying the lock system is working. 2 fighters step in the ring. 1 fighter has spent more time getting stronger and more prepared and capable of doing more damage. But then the judges tell the more prepared fighter that he has to score 25% more points than the other fighter in order to win rather than whoever scores the most points winning. Nobody in their right mind would say the scoring system is fair.

I'll agree that keeping others from getting gear to keep others down is childish, immature, and shouldn't be playing the game. But it's also silly for someone that starts hitting that past 180 level that doesn't have their dl weapons should get penalized because they want to level.

2 people interview for a job. Both are qualified for the position. 1 has a master's degree. 1 has a bachelor's degree. The hiring manager goes with the one that spent less time increasing their knowledge. This sounds perfectly fine, right?

Yes I know it's a game and not real life. But with the way it is, it's hit a certain level and stop until you have your dl weapons which could take months or even a year.

Target lock was added to the game because of thousands of low levels complaining about how they would start boss, then a high level group would swarm in later and take it due to their superior dps. Before this was implemented, aggy was the highest level boss. Most high levels had their full frozen and there was no need for warden, meteoric, or any lower tier frozen bosses. Basically all the target lock did was create a chance for low levels to get drops they needed. When carrowmore was released, it worked out pretty well. High levels had very little need for frozen, and once they started doing mordy/hrungnir even aggy wasn't as important so low levels still retained an advantage locking bosses for drops they needed. Fast forward some, and now people are 220+ in need of items dropped from 180-190 bosses.

While target lock isn't a great system anymore, it isn't the root of this issue. Compare snorri to pyrus, for instance. Pyrus is guaranteed one lion from main 6*, 2 from higher 6*, a fairly low chance from a 5*, and even lower (but still not negligible) chance to drop from a 4*. Snorri is guaranteed 0 from a 4*, 0 from a 5*, and there is no 6* "harder" version that gives more drops. Even worse, frozen weapon only required 2 lions whereas dl main and offhand needs 8.

Modifying target lock won't make everyone happy. Fixing spawn rate of 6* snorri will. We haven't seen a 6* in about 4 days now and this behavior is typical. At that rate, it would take 32 days to gain enough crowns to fully gear someone, and that is only if the colors are all the same. There is a reason why very few people ever camp pyrus. The drop rate is high enough that most people who meet level requirement have their weapon (and if not, you can camp a couple days or even buy them for pretty cheap). What percentage of 180+ have both mainhand and offhand? like 25%? After nonstop camping a single spawn for 2 years? OTM, we could care less about spawn window or target lock if the drop rate was higher. And by higher, I mean about 4 times higher. Because that is what it should be. With the current system of target lock, I would have to make a 180-190 level rogue to help my clan get more crowns. But in order to have good enough dps to lock, I would need crowns for my main and offhand. Crowns that dozens of people in clan still need, who would be ahead of me in line for. Vicious cycle isn't it?

Moving on to hrungnir and mordy; same thing. Why are the best drops in the game coming from bosses 40 levels lower than those who kill them? When carrow update came the high levels stopped camping aggy. Why go for a 50 dmg ring from aggy when I can get a 100 damage from hrung? Why get a 10 skill dmg ring from aggy when I can get a 2x10 skills damage ring from mordy? Why get a crap trident when I could get a great halberd? People had no use for aggy anymore and moved on to the bigger and better bosses that were closer to their level. But still, drop rate for the nice items was too low and clan banks are being flooded with mighty bolas rings, mighty armor rings, and dark focus halberds. So hrung and mordy are still being downed, usually within an hour of spawn, because so many kills are needed to gain drops that people want. And now, level cap is increased without a new boss being released so people are punished for leveling by letting lower level clans gain these drops.

Tl;dr version:
1. New boss(es) should be added that are closer to the level of the current endgame players (210/220) at any given time
2. Mordy and hrung loot is too diluted to ever, in a hundred years, give every high level the gear they desire.
3. The rate of crowns per day from snorri is abysmally low leading to 200+ (plat buyer! )main toons in every clan waiting for their wep and offhand.

OTM, if you're not going to fix target lock at least look at those three points. Hundreds of people have been begging for those changes for years, when will our voices be heard? How come polls can't be created and if a lopsided enough vote occurs, something be done about it?

the lock system allows weaker clans to compete with the higher clans. Keep the game alive and not have one single clan who dominate the server.

^^ Okay except there are/were a lot of us on android not aware that this issue existed until too late. In my situation, I'm in a clan that on our sever has been killing dl for a lot longer than other clans. Because of the dismally low rate of 6* snorris and crowns, we have a lot of clan mates without weapons. So we continued to level thinking higher level = stronger.

In the meantime, other clans leveled up and one in particular started camping snorri. Since they needed the same color crowns we did, they started grouping with another clan that there wasn't much competition for the same color crowns.

So now we have to camp or we will miss out. And if they group and we group and start killing, they will get lock because we have many members over 200 and they do not. So even though we have put more time and effort into dl raids, they will get the drops by lvl lock default. There wasn't a big sign or memo once we hit a certain level warning us about this issue that could come up.

So now we have a situation where we have to gear alts or some mains have stopped leveling and gear them with hrung dmg gear and lots of lux. We'd love to be done with snorri but we still have a lot of clan mates that need dl weapons.

So we have the very small clan that literally parks some of their toons and watches tv until 170 and 180 spawns, calls other clans, kills , and gets gear.

So, yes, this system is rewarding those that are putting in less effort. I'm sorry but camping is stupid. And level lock is great if it helps those clans against clans that just want to prevent them from getting gear. But often this level lock screws the stronger players because of lower lvl exploitation.

What else is there to this game aside from leveling? The amount of time it takes to complete raids isn't that lengthy. So there's standing around and chatting. Creating alts (leveling). And ?

The ride analogy is fine except there are far better rides as you get older. I think the fighter analogy is much better.