Who is gonna raid now with the iLvl 110 gear handed to people??

[Cyrus-Wallace]

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I think you're missing the point here. It's not about casuals getting e-g gear, it's about how that is not being controlled somehow. Having unlimited access to something is not a good business model, imo. That's why we have weekly/daily lockouts on several stuff. Now, picture this: people have been asking for removing the weekly tomes lockout. Would you NOW consider that after what you're experiencing with the hunting system? I think the most logical answer is "no". Why? because people will be burning the content, having less stuff to do, ignoring other content. Yes, I know it's not something that EVERYBODY will do, but still it will have a direct impact on the remaining content.

[Eissels]

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But it is being controlled. You don't have unlimited access to i110 gear. Unless there's some page on the vendor I didn't see, the weathered gear is still gated behind soldiery, and while there's a good portion of the playerbase who is decked out in full weathered (or close to it,) it's probably smaller than you'd think. You can't actually upgrade weathered gear unless you have weathered gear, and since it's 1.5-2 weeks per piece (not counting jewelry), not everyone is going to be spam gearing up every job to be decked out in full i110 like people make it out to be.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but so far I've not seen the "full i110 gear with zero HA" crowd that people seem to be under the impression are running around everywhere. I think the most I've seen on someone was five pieces.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

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Even though this is a "catch up" patch, the 2.3 just went live and people are burning the the progression curve with this system. I invite SE to analize the ilvl 110 obtain ratio after patch and make their own conclusions. It's not good for business. People will not have anything to do when they're full decked out with ilvl 110 gear. We have 2 months and a half before the next patch! This is crazy! I know there's a limit for sold, I know there's a limit for UAT (2/week with ST and SCOB), but there're no limits for something that the end-game or the other developed content has. Why is that?

So far, the only controlled item is the weapon, because the UAT has a weekly lockout in SCOB and it was recently added in ST, but it's been months since the 2.2 went live and there're a lot of people with sold gear. Really. Probably people that quit between patches or weeks didn't get their full sold gear, but the UPGRADE itself should be harder to attain, imo. I'm not against the idea of getting these items, I want people not being able to do SCOB to get them, since they're giving them an alternative route for progression, but that route is broken at the moment.