It's that time again folks! (Tomestone thread)

[Alaina]

I just can't make myself grind out another set of gear....

[Felis]

OP, you forgot a "Brace yourself, a tomestone will go away" picture
At the end, the amount of tomestones will not change. There will be not more or less tomestones in 3.4 than in 3.3

[Mycow8me]

I doubt anyone needs to brace themself for a tombstone leaving though... if anything they wouldnt care. One less grindy thing to worry about.

[Skivvy]

OP, you forgot a "Brace yourself, a tomestone will go away" picture
At the end, the amount of tomestones will not change. There will be not more or less tomestones in 3.4 than in 3.3

The number of tomestomes isn't the issue but more the fact that SE just continues to roll out the same content style patch after patch.

[LaylaTsarra]

The number of tomestomes isn't the issue but more the fact that SE just continues to roll out the same content style patch after patch.

They are introducing 250 level craft able fully mendable gear from what I understand. How is that the same stuff? One doesn't have to do tomes if they don't want to. I know personally i have fully meldable 220 gear currently and didn't fully gear my roles in Lore, I used it more for alt roles than my main. Seems people what things to change and they have made changes, I just think people don't want to see it.

[Skivvy]

They are introducing 250 level craft able fully mendable gear from what I understand. How is that the same stuff? One doesn't have to do tomes if they don't want to. I know personally i have fully meldable 220 gear currently and didn't fully gear my roles in Lore, I used it more for alt roles than my main. Seems people what things to change and they have made changes, I just think people don't want to see it.

So our options are now: grind tomes (as usual), run raid (as usual), and buy gear. That isn't really worth getting that excited over..

[LaylaTsarra]

So our options are now: grind tomes (as usual), run raid (as usual), and buy gear. That isn't really worth getting that excited over..

And what exactly would you like? Another horizontal change the entire system solution? It's not going to happen. They are introducing new options to the gear scene and it's a good thing in my view. I was told although I haven't seen it in writing that the new tome gear will also be over mendable as well allowing for more customizable stats. If anyone can confirm this it would be appreciated.

[Elleia]

They are introducing 250 level craft able fully mendable gear from what I understand. How is that the same stuff? One doesn't have to do tomes if they don't want to. I know personally i have fully meldable 220 gear currently and didn't fully gear my roles in Lore, I used it more for alt roles than my main. Seems people what things to change and they have made changes, I just think people don't want to see it.

Well, we've had crafted fully meld able gearsets in the past. I remember wearing some crafted i110 gear when poetic gear (i120-130 upgraded) dropped, and I expect this to be similar with the raid/upgraded tome gear sitting at i270.

It'll be nice to have the crafted gear to begin with instead of trying to farm NM Alex for drops before jumping into savage, and it'll be useful for gearing up alt classes. Otherwise, though, people looking for the highest ilvl will still be chasing savage/tomes for upgrades.

[Synestra]

So our options are now: grind tomes (as usual), run raid (as usual), and buy gear.

Besides these 3 options i could only think 3 more and those are Dungeon/Diadem and Hunts but all those would be mostlikely huge grind due RNG compared to tome stuff so majority would popably skip these, unless SE plays "dirty" and sprinkles BiS pieces across all 6 options + upgrade items.

[Neophyte]

So our options are now: grind tomes (as usual), run raid (as usual), and buy gear. That isn't really worth getting that excited over..

In 2.x it was

Viable weapon: tomes, raid, relic, Shiva weapon (? Well, not in the last raid cycle at last)
Viable gear: tomes, raid, crafted
Complaints about gear: Almost nonexistent?!

Now it's:
Viable weapon: Primal, PotD, Tomes, Raid (hard), crafted, relic
Viable gear: Raid (normal), Diadem, Tomes, Raid (hard), crafted
Complaints about gear: A lot.