Hey look I'd love if they made things horizontal but the reason gear is outdated so fast is bc patches come fast, which is something I do like, it would require a LOT of reworking to change gearing so drastically & add horizontal-ness, & it's a risk that the devs don't wanna take.

Despite all the complaints, this is the vocal minority. 80% of the playerbase don't even use the forums. So there is an extremely high chance devs will ignore anything unless it's within the confines of something minor they could change that wouldn't cause a massive revolution in the game, something they know people will appreciate as it would have no negative effects & won't cause subs to drop. Horizontal gearing might do this if they could even pull it off.

Wouldn't adding this horizontal stuff pretty much require changes from the ground up on the entire stat system? It might be an insanely large amount of work that could take a year of balancing without any other patch work distracting them. They said it took a year to balance the HW jobs & even then 2/3 of them STILL needed massive changes on release & up to 3.2.


To summarize, you guys might be asking for TOO MUCH.