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    Gridania
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    Olwen Mercier
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    Coeurl
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    Red Mage Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by KaedrianLiang View Post
    These altruistic players can find more altruistic players and equip ilvl50-110 gear aside from their best gear without imposing their so-called altruistic beliefs on others. They have all the tools they need ingame already to enjoy old content with restricted ilvl.

    They dont want to do but they want others to be forced into doing it. Zero logic.
    Nobody wants to equip gear that is worse than their current best. Everyone would rather not have their best gears stats forcibly lowered for old duties. Everyone agrees.

    However, there is a point where the stats of the gear exceed the intended item level range of the content to the point where game mechanics no longer matter.

    We want to be overpowered, it's certainly fun to be and the gear we get from newer content makes it very easy to be. But there's a point where being so ridiculously overpowered breaks the game mechanics. When the game mechanics can be ignored to the point where they don't even matter, or possibly don't even occur, something is broken and needs to be fixed.

    On one hand we have the game designers: the old content is no longer working as intended because player characters have become ridiculously powerful since the old content released, a fix may be in order to balance the game. The duties were designed around these mechanics, their existence is moot if they can be skipped or ignored.

    On the other hand we have the player base: we don't want the best gear we earned in the game to be nerfed in any way, shape, or form for any content. We put our time into the game for the gear to be as strong as possible. The gear we earned should allow us to get through the old content as fast and as easily as possible.

    This is the dilemma, neither side is illogical.
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    Last edited by File2ish; 02-12-2015 at 08:33 AM.