Raider to Non-Raider: an exhibition on thoughts and misconceptions

[Malevicton]

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Not really though. When savage released most remotely-serious raiders had full i180 with 190 weapons and a handful of 190 alex normal gear. That's about where people would have been in 2.X patch cycles as well.

From first to second coil was i90 to i110 max, so people started out 20 ilvls under from day 1. Same for scob to fcob. People were in the 185-190 range when savage launched. At worst the ilvl discrepancy was about 5 ilvls more than previous content. 1 or 2 weeks and that discrepancy is gone (5 weeks to get all your normal alex gear if you were planning ahead for it, meaning only 1 week of relatively lower gear). Given that this patch cycle is longer than previous patch cycles, there's really not an ilvl difference worth mentioning.

It's been about 3 months sicne savage launched, meaning the catch-up patch would normally have been 1-2 weeks ago. We would not have been sitting at 210 (and definitely not 220 since that doesn't exist...?) by this time in other patch cycles.