Patch 2.57 please?

[Nutz]

Vote reset on Steps would be good. I've had one or two groups that actually recovered from what I thought was a terrible start, but usually you just get progressively more overwhelmed and spend a lot of extra time while knowing you can't possibly win.

Mentioned by someone other than the OP -- a 'glamour book', while a lot more work than small patch would usually include, is becoming increasingly more necessary. We have far too many reasons to horde and collect gear. Removing vanity from the equation would help tremendously for both the devs and players (since it would effectively be +~100 retainer slots per character). I don't mind collecting gear I'll never use to desynth in the future, but holding on to everything that I sort of like the look of in case I might want to use it at some time (and it will be annoying to collect again specifically) is a problem that is easily solved (in theory at least -- I have faith the devs could also do it in practice).

[Kyousha]

Not gonna read all the replies due to me being on my phone (and on my break at work...limited time), but they're not going to remove poetics cap until the new tomestones are available. They've done it that way since day 1, so no, it wouldn't make sense to suddenly uncap it!

[Firepower]

The only thing I have against removing the poetics cap is generally It makes it too easy for everyone to get the max 2000 poetics just before the expansion to spend it on new crafting materials and flooding the market. Considering they are introducing 2 new sets of tomes (Law, Esoterics) I would guess at least soldiery will be removed to convert to poetics and then I would be unsure what they plan on doing with poetics which would only be useful as a level 50 currency considering they have Law and Esoterics for the lv 60 stuff. Either poetics gets converted into Law tomes (giving people a headstart if you cap them) or they remain in the game as a 3rd currency. alongside with the 2 new ones and the scrips for DOH and DOL, that sounds like a lot of currencies.. Keeping the poetics cap on just seems like a good idea so that people can choose to continue to gear up jobs or hoard them for whatever potential change happens in the expansion to them.

[JayCommon]

Mentioned by someone other than the OP -- a 'glamour book'

Yeah, this would be extremely awesome. I think that same person mentioned a reason about keeping crafting relevant by not having this (so if you discard you have to buy it again), but if that really is the reason for this not being a thing I would be up for coding it in such a way that it could only acquire untradable items as book spots. Keep the crafting in the same spot it's in but alleviate us needing to run any dungeons again just for glamour.

It sounds harsh the way I put it, but currently (for me anyway) it would be nice to have access to some of those older dungeon gear sets that I scrapped for seals long ago. But it being nice, in no way makes me run those dungeons again just for the glamour I might want to use one day. And even if I did, I have no space to hold on to them.


I guess if you look at it from the other side, the limited space we have makes us actually have to care about the glamour we wear enough to hold on to it, so it adds a sense of personality to our characters. Albeit forced...

[Suda]

I have a lot of 50's wearing soldiery gear. I would love uncapped poetics. It would keep me busy with all of my jobs. Currently I just get capped and pretty much stop playing for the week.

Also as someone said above. I would really like soldiery to be useful again. I don't care to get all these relics for these jobs. I just wanted to do it for my main and that is it.

If they don't uncapped them though its no big deal. I got Witcher 3 to keep me busy until HW.

[Evergrey]

If I recall (please correct me if I'm wrong) I read that the Sol and Poe will be replaces in HW with new tomestones and up untill then the cap will remain, as ilvl 130 is too high for early HW.

[Dhex]

I have everything at 50 and above/between 115/125 w/ tanks at 130 - biggest problem I have is that I can't purchase weapons with the Poetics cap and farming T13 for weapons is a bit of a drag without a static. I have like 10 or 12 of the upgrade items sitting in a retainer unused... :/ being able to turn in Sol would help too considering I have every set fully upgrade and most of it is sitting in a retainer as well...

Yay for bigger retainers ; A ;

[Yona87]

nerf all the Coils to Primal HMs level.

PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS.
PLEASE NO

NO NO NO NO NO

[Averax]

People are getting antsy for more patches while waiting for Heavensward already? There's like a month left.

[Akuryu]

This is the first I've heard it mentioned that ilvl 130 will be "too high" for the expansion content...

Every new dungeon that comes out is tuned 30 item levels below the general population, making them a snooze-fest. I don't even do expert or high level roulettes, as poetics are easily capped elsewhere. Sounds like they are making the same stupid mistake with the expansion. If ilvl 130 is too high, then they've failed before it even launches. Almost everyone has at least 1 job (their main most likely) at ilvl 130.

You could argue "what about new players, and players who are returning just for the expansion!? They won't be ilvl 130..." That's why most MMOs make the crappy gear you get right at the start of an expansion as good as the previous expansion's best raid gear. IE: white gear, easily obtainable at the start of Heavensward, should be ilvl130. That should be the ground floor.

"Oh but I spent sooo much time on my BiS 130 set! I don't want it to be useless in the expansion!!!" Guess what? It's going to be. Whether it becomes useless right away (level 51) or a few levels in (54-55) matters very little. It WILL become useless. Welcome to MMOs.

I'd like the leveling content to offer some small challenge, rather than face-roll my way to 60. Sounds like I'll be doing the latter. *sigh*