Hope I'm wrong, but stat squish seems to make people weaker in pre-EW contents?

[LordTimmy]

Not surprised in the least. There was absolutely no reason they couldn’t come up with some other solution. Are they just gonna keep doing this every other expac and keep breaking things and continuously unbalancing things, like WoW does now? It’s an awful experience to go down in power (YES, seeing your numbers increase over a period of time is a KEY experience of ANY rpg) and makes the game feel cheap.

The whole idea of a stat squish in ANY game, let alone an RPG is absurd. The whole point of an RPG is to get stronger in time. I will never ever ever defend a “stat” squish, and god forbid square ever does a “level” squish.

The problem in a Multiplayer Online Role Player Game with a vertical ilvl gear system, is that in contrast to a stand alone game, you have to repeat very old content in order to get the items needed to have that "you're-way-stronger-than-before" experience (AKA Poetics in this game, ilvl) aside the usual "natural" level we get. To that end, we need to repeat the same old content over and over again, for us to become artificially stronger, because If we go naked with our "level 90" we would of die on a same level monster.

In a stand-alone game, sure, you can go with lvl-90 and choose in between killing low level mobs and take forever to level up or go endgame content a few times, but is your choice to never touch old/low level content ever again, beacuse if you go to those zones, pretty much you sneeze and 20 mobs in the area die. MMORPG """forces""" you to repeat old content for the sake of become stronger, like blatantly.

Then again, we as "level 90" ilvl 560 (minimum AF gear) we could of stay at "Lvl 90" areas and get exp there, but FATES aren't as good, and the rewards of daily roulettes are simply too good to just pass on them.

Of course is one's choice to do it or not. But, at least, if we have to do it 1000000 times, better have it fun than braindead boring, in my humble opinion, that is.