Excuse me but my point was that cheating is the only way to protect your time investment, i don't get the point of pet as a way to manipulate death?
Without talking too much about pet now that are (finally nerfed), the pet were introduced for 2 reasons: 1) the best money sink (some say p2w feature and they are right) in the game and 2) a way to change the pace of the game as a way to deal with Damage Over Time, not death as it is istant in most of case
Your point is the drop rates increase the grind and excitement, my point is that there is no possible grind ever for those items. The best way to discuss this problem is with help of numbers, let's say we want one of the most rare items that is the jugg
As a legit player you simply cannot grind it, and very less excited by trying to grind it. I'll tell you why, there is a ******* wich try to manually get items drop rates as deca don't release it, until few weeks ago there was only 1 jugg in a collective attempt of 4500 events. I don't even have to tell you how much is 4500 sphinx as a legit player, but even if you half it and make it 2000 like the very old drops rates if you are a legit player very passionate of the game which play let's say 3 hour every day all year long. You will never do more then 150-200 events in a year, if you are in a dedicated *******. I did it, i was in all 3 realm closing *******. Let's say you work/study and have 2-3 hour a day to play if you luck out they are online grinding you do 1, max 3 sphinx/hermit in this time frame.
Hell I know how much you need to grind it as a cheater because i did it, during lockdown i dedicated all my time to get the orb/jugg, i was logged more then 12 hour a day with 2 events notifier, with very dedicated character with best gear of the game and very fast speed i could not go over 20 sphinx/hermit a day on avarage. My record i think was 24 playing from morning to night. Do you math how much hours do you need. Months as a cheater with no life and i don't want to even write down how many years for a legit player.
How can you even think this is grindable or exciting for a legit player when you get 1 in your account life-time if you are lucky? You simply cannot use it if you are lucky and get one after years, how is considerate acceptable to not have a fail-safe way to protect freaking THOUSANDS of hours to get it when by game design you are supposed to die A LOT? And we are talking about jugg that is solo grindable in a systematic way, there are other needed items that requires multiple people and even more times even with much higher drop rates.
There are some solutions to save your time investment: 1) a hard to get item similar to the medallion, maybe given with calendar 1 per month and only for a character so you can save your 5000hourstoget items 2) rot those items in the vault 3) raise the drop rates by a little for every events you do so you you can actually grind after investing your time 4) the event's whites market exchange, and this is actually being studied by DECA right now, so they indirectly admit they have a huge problem in how the rare items are distributed 5) raise drop rates by A LOT so you can get what you want in some weeks of grinding
Now i'm very happy the direction in which DECA is goin, and as i cheater ill tell you i just want a fair game and getting rid of p2w pet and the UT market are the right choice (basically going back to the old rotmg days) but RIGHT NOW autonexus is FOR ME the only way to play with this items protecting your time investment and i think a lot of cheaters have the same reason but i respect every single legit player madman which put their rare treasure items and time at stake, for me it's not viable even if a play a lot i have 1 set of white for character without them i could not partecipate in any ******* run
sorry for the wall of text, i just want to post my experience as legit and as a cheater, but i'm happy we agree that getting those items easily like the old days is the answer, we need the UT market FAST