(07-29-2015, 03:01 AM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:(07-27-2015, 06:04 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: It's pointless to you because the gear doesn't do anything or you other than look pretty (although if it's so pointless, I do wonder why you even bother grinding it, and why you care about it in the first place). Â It isn't pointless to people who are using that gear as a springboard towards further progression.
The fact is, the game is designed - and quite deliberately so - to be a gear grind. Â That is how they differentiate the different tiers, and that is how they keep the new content "interesting" to players who have already farmed the hell out of current content.
This is literally how every raid-focused MMO works.
Well, except for two things:
1. Raiding is such a minor portion of the game's content in general.
2. You can overgear everything but savage mode Alex with the base level token equipment. The same was true for all of 2.0 and Coil.
All that really leaves is aesthetics/glamour/whatever outside of that bizarre, niche group of players that get some sort of gratification from watching numbers rise in negligible amounts.
Now, maybe it's just me, but glamour should not take months at a time, especially in one of the most RP-friendly online RPGs ever made.
Raiding may be a "minor" thing to you, but this gear is explicitly intended for gearing up for Alexander Savage. Â That's why it's the ilvl that it is. Â And that is why it is gated.
Like everything else, the gated aspect will go away when Alexander Savage is no longer the current content. Â Sorry, but if you don't want to grind it up now, you'll have to wait for it later.
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