Darklight / Other ilvl 70 Tank Gear

[Supercactoid]

This is a short thread mainly to arise the problem with the ilvl 70 Tank gear in the game.

In terms of endgame Tank gear, It's come to my attention that nobody really wants the ilevel 70 either Darksteel or Darklight gear in terms of sheer looks. In fact the only real reason most players seem to end up obtaining this gear is all down to the gear stats.

I believe this problem could be easily fixed and even give a lot more incentive for players to reach out and aim for lvl 50 simply because they want this endgame gear.

[Simple Solution]

The /visor macro should be implemented to work on these specific sets of gear. I really doubt it would take that much work to implement or another option would be for the Head piece of the body part to be hidden the same way as a normal head piece can be hidden.

It may not seem like a big deal but I feel this slight fix will make the bulky stacked Gear Sets to be far more attractive to all players that are leveling Tanks.

[Zakalwe]

There was a developer post on this. Not going to happen. But they promise to try not to replicate this problem in future armours.

[Sylari]

My biggest problem isn't actually with the looks, it's with how poorly it plays with other armor. Makes it really really frustrating to upgrade pieces as a tank (and as a magic user to a lesser extent for that matter).

[Grembo]

I believe this problem could be easily fixed....

Apparently not.

Can't seem to dig the post up but they've stated it would require a complete redesign of the armour from the ground up and they'd rather focus on new armour sets rather than going back to the drawing board on the ones that have been in the game since launch.

EDIT: Also, at most you're going to be stuck with your Heavy DL Armour for two weeks. It can easily be replaced with a combination of CT and Myth gear or even Hoplite if you're willing to farm it.

[Wadoka]

I'm running around in the "High Mythril" head and chest piece right now at L48 (HQ of course) and I went through all the lower tiers too. The sets are ugly; they don't look very good with other equipment; and worst of all, when you get inserted into instances, cutscenes, and the like, you are an expressionless tin can - you can't see your facial expressions or even head nods when you're geared in one of these items.

[Kiteless]

It looks absolutely awful, its animated even worse, and upgrading to a new set is just a pain in the ass. Heavy Darklight is just one big middle finger to tanking classes.

Apparently not.

Can't seem to dig the post up but they've stated it would require a complete redesign of the armour from the ground up and they'd rather focus on new armour sets rather than going back to the drawing board on the ones that have been in the game since launch.

If that's the issue, just quickly reskin something else to make it black and red, and throw it in there instead. Darklight itself is just a lazy reskin to begin with, nothing of value will be lost.

[Duuude007]

If that's the issue, just quickly reskin something else to make it black and red, and throw it in there instead. Darklight itself is just a lazy reskin to begin with, nothing of value will be lost.

What content should they delay implementing to tweak something that is weaker than the version just as easy to earn in CT, except 10 levels higher?

Seems irrelevant already, I don't see why any game developer would bother addressing this request.

[Kiteless]

What content should they delay implementing to tweak something that is weaker than the version just as easy to earn in CT, except 10 levels higher?

If a content ends up being delayed by a 30 second process that is literally just opening up a texture file in photoshop, hitting ctrl+U, and moving a couple sliders around; and then adding a new item listing with stats that are essentially already determined, there are some serious issues with the production pipeleine that the developers are using.

Seems irrelevant already, I don't see why any game developer would bother addressing this request.

Considering the lopsided spread of the playerbase against tanks as it is, I'd figure anything that could be done to even entertain the possibility of getting more tanks on servers would be at least worth consideration.

A quality of life change that involves making them not the most annoying classes to gear in the game would be a good start.

[Duuude007]

You'd think the tank DL would have been an 'issue' back in 1.0 when AV/CC dropped them, and that what it looks like would have been noticed and adjusted... if it mattered in the larger scheme of things. It does not, so it was not.

Don't like it? get the CT tank body. It's better, and can take as much if not less effort to earn.

[Caraway]

Also, at most you're going to be stuck with your Heavy DL Armour for two weeks. It can easily be replaced with a combination of CT and Myth gear or even Hoplite if you're willing to farm it.

Try three. Mythology chest and legs are 800ish tomes while the cap is half that. So it's two weeks for one part of your upgrade and another week for the other (assuming going to i90 myth).

And Hoplite gear is a downgrade to Darklight as it is i60 gear.

That said, the devs stated they would not be making the mistake going forward so hopefully we'll never see combined pieces ever again in anything other than vanity.