122804-stop-wasting-effort-on-new-content-that-does-not-allow-progression

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Well, "maxing my potential" isn't the only thing I play the game for. I do the shiphands because they're fun. I'm working on finishing my dye collection(one color to go :D ). I like to play around with costumes. Others go nuts on their housing plots. I play alts. I farm mats for making my own Runic Fluxes, and I do challenges to get the bags that have a chance to drop Runic Modules, so I can upgrade my gear or help my husband upgrade his since I have more time to play than he does. I hunt down rares. I work on the achievements that can be soloed. I do dailies for the EG quest and to max out my weekly EGs. One of these days I'll step back into doing my attunement on my main(even though I don't plan to raid right now, who knows what I may decide in the future). I'm patiently waiting for the PvP changes that are on the PTR right now to go live. No, I don't need/deserve raid level gear because I am currently not doing anything that is raid level. I have the gear that fits my chosen play-style. I have the rewards(to me) that have fit the content I have been doing. And hopefully the PvP reward/gear will fit that effort when I start PvP'ing again(which is why I stopped, because I felt the rewards weren't worth the headache)


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are you saying i cant buy a truck because im not hauling anything? you know some people buy trucks cause they like trucks. i should get my end-game gear because i want it!

im a 10000% serious. this is a hot topic that requires all of CRB's resources and attention. every facet of the game should be designed around a single suburban mother of 3 with 4 part time jobs. i might have gone overboard with the "hate" on OP, but this... "I pay to play the game. You get gear by playing. I'm getting what i pay for." does not fly with me nor should it fly with any game ever. no middle step. or alteast make that middle step easy. ill give an example of this. what if the middle step required you to beat ninja gaiden on the hardest difficulty. you would be upset wouldnt you? this is the problem op is having except its not difficulty its time he is up against. raiding shouldnt be the end all for a game, its jsut about having 19 other friends. solo content can be designed way harder since its easier to do stuff when you have people to rely on.


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The only raid schem drop I've heard of(doesn't mean it's the only) is Archivos. I've seen the schems on the AH, and the Biofage Clusters to craft them on the CX. Matter of fact, made myself an Archivos chest, and got the Archivos weapon schem for my husband to make for me :D  But like I said, don't know if Archivos is the only schems that drop.

Because people want to look unique and show off, plain and simple. I'm on the fence on whether the looks should be unique or not, sure I'd like to have the DS SS chest, boots and guns because they look kick ass(and one of the very few revealing looks for a female):

(my ptr SS) But then I also realize people want to have something that shows how hard they've worked. As to why raid gear has to be more powerful, why do YOU want more powerful gear? Would you raid if you could never get yourself powerful enough to make it challenging as opposed to being rofl-stomped for hours?


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The argument is not that raiding has to be the only challenge, it is that it is impossible to create a challenge as hard as raiding for solo content. Solo raid would also not really encourage the "massively multiplayer" part of the game. Please, develop a solo raid that includes bosses, trash and minibosses with as many different and fun mechanics as those in the Genetic Archives, and that would require between 6-12 hours dedication to it for months in order to progress to the end of the content, and I will be happy to agree that you need raid gear. But to do that, Carbine would have to drop EVERYTHING else, and then it would take anouth 6-12 months before it would even be out. You can progress to the end of solo content and get the best gear for solo content. Just like you can progress to the end of the the 5 man group content (vet dungeons) and get the best gear for that content which in many ways does trivialize even that level of the content (someone in full SSM and protostar purples is pretty damn close to the start of raid gearing). But what you are asking for, the solo content which provides the same rewards as raids, is just not going to happen. Not unless they develop something which would take 4 months for you to progress through solo, and by the sound of it, you don't have 9 hours a week for 4 months to dedicate to the game. If you did, then you would probably be raiding.


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do you think that pvpers should not have cool gear? equivalently powerful for what they do as raiders get? why not challenging solo content that has the same level of challenge and same level of reward?


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