Quote Originally Posted by Hayward View Post
Even if SE bent to your whims, the bean-counter forum would still make sure everyone had to have one optimum set of gear or get put on the "Do Not Play" list.
Actually, it'd be a little worse than that. If we had solid horizontal progression options, the bean-counters would insist that you have ALL of the optimum sets of gear.

Bean-counter: Eh, so you're a BRD, eh? I see you have Orichalcum Earrings of Aiming; that's good for most stuff, but you're planning on doing instance X, right? Hope you have Alabaster Earrings for the reduced Blunt Arrow recast. Don't forget you'll need your Eldrich Earclasps to turn your elemental attacks into physical damage; you won't be using them in instance X, but Y comes after and you'll need it there for sure, thanks to the boss's magic resistance. Now, let's talk about the REST of your gear...

I'd welcome this kind of thing, actually - so long as we had the inventory space to accomodate it all...