I guess it's time

[Velhart]

If it means new gear will be exciting, then I'm all up for that. I mean people do the optimization anyway, except the only thing we have to show for it is higher numbers. Not faster attacks, more procs or other bonuses.

That is fine (I guess?), but just remember, they shouldn't add bells and whistles to gear in expense of the quality of the content. I am for set bonuses similar to WoW (if done right), but some slight restructuring would need to be done to the system we have now.

A system like that however can easily break gear options. If a 5/5 set has something that just blows the alternate set out of the water, that is pretty unbalanced. This was mildly a thing in WoW, at least when I played it.

[RiceisNice]

That is fine (I guess?), but just remember, they shouldn't add bells and whistles to gear in expense of the quality of the content. I am for set bonuses similar to WoW (if done right), but some slight restructuring would need to be done to the system we have now.

I mean...this is the case for any update they try to do. Unfortunately it really feels like a lot of corners were cut for hHavensward, and the players have paid for it. My point is that "people will always optimize anyway" shouldn't be a good reason to not add more diversity to something like stats, because people do this anyway with the substats whose only impact is your numerical dps, not actual gameplay. I don't even want to raid hardcore, so even provided that I'm in a static and we had a raid suited for us, I'm probably going to mess around a bit with something like set bonuses or equips as we get them, but I can;t even do that when they're literally nothing but numbers.