Quote Originally Posted by Fyce View Post
So, in short terms, you want some gear to be the best for two consecutive patches. You want raid gear to stay the best for half a year before having to replace it with... new raid gear.

You should start to wrap your mind around the idea that raid gear is the best only for the current patch before having alternatives or better replacements the next one, or you'll be disappointed every time an odd numbered patch comes out.

Not everyone cares about big numbers on their shiny armor. Some people do it for the feeling of achievement and the battle itself.
It's sad that I have to explain that to a raider.
The ratio for effort:reward is not balanced. AS3 is a kick in the nuts and takes so much time investment, coordination, effort and can demoralize statics easily. If a fight is going to be this hard, at least the reward should feel worth of all that sweat. Making it worthless on the next patch after a few months is not the way to make it feel like it was worth it. Also, the battles are no better than coil for the majority of people so if it wasn't for the gear, I bet you not alot of people would even bother just for the fights. There were a lot of threads back then, from raiders complaining about how Alex Savage fights were not exciting and actually boring. I agree with them, I couldn't stomach AS3 anymore after a while. We were one of the few statics that survived the statics murders. I'm actually surprised we did, because we were getting demoralized, too, but we kept going at it until we finally beat it.