"jackTHErandom;561928" wrote:
Besides did you even read what i wrote? Gear was NOT obsolete, lvls were NOT obsolete, Stars were NOT obsolete... Whats a 50% increase on a value of 100? And whats a 50% increase on a value of 5000? 100 being base damage of a lvl50 ungeared tokn, 5k being basedamage of a geared, starred and lvld toon
I disagree (almost) entirely with this. After the uber-mods came out, I finally happened to be able to upgrade QGJ to GXI, but it was meaningless. I didn't even post a "Hey guys, I'm psyched about this" to my guildies as I normally would, because the upgrade was NOTHING compared to the mods he had. The increase in base stats from leveling up was trivial compared to the bonuses from the mods. And even getting an extra 1600 HPs from the base-stat improvements was then rendered meaningless by the exponential damage increases from toons like Rey.
When raid gear became available in the Shipments for purchase with crystals, many folks spent a whole lot of crystals (either through arena earnings or paid for with cash) to get those pieces. The first implementation of mods nullified the value of all such purchases and invalidated the historical focus on acquiring gear to advance. You can't get people to invest that much time/money in getting gear, and then say "Actually, that stuff doesn't matter at all. What you really need are mods!"
If your stockbroker tells you that you need to focus your portfolio on gold-gold-gold for security and strength over time, and you buy up all the gold that you can (with his usual commission), how would you react when he next tells you that you need to focus your portfolio on platinum-platinum-platinum because gold is actually worthless? Would you happily just go along and buy platinum without a care for the money you lost on gold based on his advice? Or would you think that your stockbroker just screwed you over and ripped you off and that he probably needs to be facing someone in a long black robe to determine if he'll be in a 8 x 8 cell for a nice long vacation? If it's the latter, welcome to the club of those who were enraged at the implementation of mods. If it's the former, please give me a call, because I REALLY want to be your broker.
