112008-end-game-itemization-changes

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I dont see a problem is a few of the tier 4 items are worse than some adventure / dungeon gear. But in the current state of itemization i was 7/12 pre-raid best in slot (and a top 3 weapon) 30 minutes into hitting lvl 50 due to the fact that crafted pieces are so good and require so few materials. All i did was ask a guildmate to craft all the bis pieces for me because i wasnt on that tier yet. It cost me like 2 plat or so to get all 8 of the items.


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^ Rune-Sets are nice but a bonus specifically for your class... to boost some of your unique abilities would be amazing.


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Because this is a themepark model what requires specific rewards for specific challenges to not bypass said challenges no other source of items can be as good, the game struggled enough due to the "carrot" being effected. Crafters playing a themepark mmo are either new to mmo's or naive. Crafting is there to provide a backup method to get gear always has and always will in these type of mmo's. The content outside of raiding to help you progress will follow that same design ideology, group content rewards will always be inferior to solo rewards, crafting rewards will be inferior to both. You had a thread about items being turned into tokens followed by a slippery slope argument? No, you don't say where was that!


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Crafting as the EG vendor is a back up method of getting gear. As for tokens, clearly you don't raid otherwise you wouldn't be opposed to it or you don't raid enough so that loot is so rare that it doesn't become an issue for you. Also if you don't raid why are you arguing against something that doesn't effect you in anyway? It's a good design and it's still used in WoW today successfully, cause less RNG on loot is better. This isn't diablo 3. You do know that carbine always stated J-tal to be exact that raid loot would always be the best for PvE purposes right? Feel free to go back to wildstar central and refresh your memory to their exact plans since beta. The solo items that they were talking about would've been differently itemized. Yes they didn't deliver on that but they never said crafted or solo gear would be equally better.


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