[2021] Might just be me, but does anyone else think that handing out weekly dtd's isnt that great for the economy?

You've admittedly had a rather small sample size (2 occurrences) to extrapolate a drop rate.

The frequency of DTDs is closer to 1/month. They happened to fall adjacent on this occasion.

I can understand the perceived value of a deathtouched dart since it has the potential to be a big drop for minimal effort. But it's effectively a lottery ticket with extra steps.

Compared to, say, direct coin creation like a cash bag (which, BTW, we're dropping a size tier and substituting for ironmen with oddments in response to feedback), a DTD's one of the more economically stable rewards we can give - at least so I've been assured.

Boss value is measured in kills/hour and bosses are balanced around being repeatedly killed, so one free kill through a throttled non-tradeable supply that requires daily engagement to acquire contributes minimally to inflation.

It's an active reward - you have to gear up and fight the boss (albeit briefly) to get the benefit, so they're actually closer to an onboarding tool. They don't work on several bosses, have a lot of restrictions (I'd give Mod Raven's left testicle for them to count towards Reaper Crew - frickin' group bosses) and some of the most valuable bosses only skip a phase.

We even checked in with the ironman council yesterday, and after verifying the reward frequency to be sure, got confirmation they're happy for DTDs to be given to ironmen at the current rate.

Please do keep giving us your feedback about daily challenge rewards as they present, though, and we'll keep an eye on DTDs. We want to keep tuning the daily challenge rewards so they feel good to you.

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Understandably cause for concern and I appreciate you raising it! Thanks for your thread and your well wishes. :)

As in D&D daily/weekly/monthly reset tokens?

First I've heard of those being an issue for ironmen. (Admittedly had my head down implementing patches the last couple days, so I may have missed a post or two.)

As far as I'm aware, we've given D&D reset tokens to ironmen in the past.

If the D&D reset tokens are contentious for ironmen and ironmen feel they aren't in the spirit of the game mode, we'd be happy to substitute them for ironmen.

None of the 6 items you've listed above are currently substituted for ironmen.

We did run our rewards past the ironman council, but I acknowledge that some ironmen take a more hardline view than others.

So if you feel that any of the above aren't in the spirit of ironman mode via daily challenge weekly rewards, please let us know, and we'd be happy to raise them again.

The only ironman-specific feedback change so far is to decrement the size of and substitute cash bags (though that likely won't release on Monday as our team's QA are assisting another project this week).

Can't really comment on that. It's more of a combat council decision.