Gear Crunch

"Ravens1113;c-2285948" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2285908" wrote:

"TheDude420;c-2285899" wrote:
They pump out new content with high gearing requirements to prolong the life of the game. If they made gear more readily available by easing the gear crunch, it would contradict these efforts.

I wish they would alleviate the gear crunch, but it seems to be strategically opposed to their recent business decisions.

I dont think anyone disagrees with this, but the idea that the gear pinch points should shift as you develop your roster further and further has merit and should be explored.

7-8m GP rosters should not be hitting gear crunch at g8 or g9, IMHO. Hitting them around r1-3 and up sounds more reasonable. (These numbers are completely made up and dont matter in the principle of this argument.)

That is how they maintain the crunch without making it boring and stale, IMHO.

Bingo. Glad to see you finally speaking what we’ve all been trying to say. Especially with these LV reqs, every single one is R5 minimum, multiple R8/R7 reqs and it’s not looking to get better any time soon. That’s not ok.

The gap in requirements compared to income is growing further and faster and we haven’t seen any meaningful relief to the gear crunch. It’s past due. There’s no reason that once players are at 7/8 million GP, they still struggle to get past G8, or need to hoard and farm for months just for one character.

We have agreed on this for a while, in this thread,
but thank you for finally recognizing that. I just dont believe the suggestions you have to fix it would fit what they have said the points they are looking to hold onto.

Either way, yes we both agree they should do more to address the gear crunch. (I have said this before.) ?