reduce size of purity fields?

[ysbryd]

I have noticed that a lot of people are struggling to find purity items, and although I dont think purity should be raised, maybe making the fields smaller, so that they would change more often in an area could help this? Just an idea that came to me, as maybe a help towards making people less annoyed with the purity changes? More chance to find matching purity things? Feel free to shoot this down, as I said, I have been seeing a lot of people complain and was trying to think of a way to fix it.

[Kandarim]

i'm still completely against purity fields, even in their current "much-smaller-than-haven" form. The fact that most items have a seperate field helps, but that doesn't take away the fact that living near a 10% soil/clay node is more or less equal to a Q40 clay pit in haven: not an extreme advantage in end-game terms, but very much so in early-server considerations.

As slow as the purity grind apart from the nodes may be, i believe that any localized purity field (whether global or an a much more individual scale) is BAD.

A possible alternative: the purity of items you find is capped by relevant proficiencies, but will be the same %/multiplier wherever in the world you are. Only alchemical make-up will differ over the world. For this, the current field sizes would be perfect, I think (a couple of minimaps to change the dominant element, for example). This will still hold the thingie about localized purity, without aversely affecting new players. Post if I missed any consequences

[ysbryd]

Get the feeling its more about finding things that match purity rather than woohoo huge purity, but what do I know lol..

[Scilly_guy]

Get the feeling its more about finding things that match purity rather than woohoo huge purity, but what do I know lol..

Yeah thats what I was thinking

[martinuzz]

This is an idea I posted on purity fields. It didn't get many views or replies at the time, because everyone was too busy ranting and raging in the above and below thread.
Since it's very closely related to this topic, if anyone cares, please have a look at it.

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