Poll: Gear progression, horizontal or vertical?

[SDaemon]

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Saying Horizontal is when you can equip any gear-set and face-roll on skill alone is a ridiculous method of progression because in that situation every piece of gear will have the exact same stats and nothing else; no bonuses, no variation, no anything, just flat basic stats. You would never upgrade that gear or change your gear or progress your character beyond max level.

At least with the system we have now we have what is called "character growth". You can noticeably see your charterer become stronger as you get progressively better gear. Is it ideal? Nah, but it is far better than that idea of "horizontal".

If you added any variation to the gear, any unique bonuses or procs or resistances, anything that makes one piece of gear different than another piece than you end up with the situation I have described in previous pages.