Quote Originally Posted by leorez View Post
The biggest problem with the vertical slice as it is with a game this old is how few people will be doing the lower stuff. If a newer player wants to jump into SoA endgame now...well for the most part they are screwed. Its not a giant spread out community anymore, almost everyone left is at the newest endgame so if you get left behind, you might as well stop playing, next to no one does the lower end stuff because there is no need.

That in general is what i hate about the gear climb, it makes content worthless after a short time and since no one needs it, no one is gonna come help you catch up (unless you have a bunch of friends to help, but not everyone does).

2 of my friends that cam back, they are nowhere near that stuff, ones starting fresh because he hasnt played for ages, the other stopped at ToAU...i have no idea how me and a couple LS mates are gonna handle bringing them up to speed.
you must be a new player, or you would never have made this statement