(12-02-2013, 06:46 PM)Olofantur Wrote:(12-02-2013, 06:09 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Honestly, MMOs are basically a gear grind. ÂÂ Even I level professions mostly for their awesome AF gear!
On the note of "Gear grind" EC (while I don't always agree with them, or their supporters) touches on the gambling/completion compulsion MMOs have run on in that way for an age.
My problem isn't grinding for gear, heavens only know howmany times I've run bray for gear. But when I run bray for gear I know 2 things: 1) they will drop within 40 runs at least once. 2) the gear will be useful for more than looking pretty when I do get it.
When you grind for Darkhold gear you know this: 1) the gear will maybe drop within 60 runs, if ever. 2) the gear will be completely pointless for any battle (with the exception of the tops) almost the second you get it.
THAT is my issue here, the gear is nothing but pretty and the odds of getting it without paying through the nose are astronomical! That is way too much of a pain to get something that you can only really rationalize wearing in the cities or when doing lower level dungeon that will cap the gear anyway.
(also, ok you grind the crafting for AF gear, but that gear is actually USEFUL for that class when you get it. )
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