Should Alexander hard drop highest item level gear?

[Ashkendor]

Source? I never heard them say that at all! The Devs said Alexander NM(or HM w/e people call the easier one now days.) Is going to be on par with current coils with echo. Alex. HM(or Savage) will be like FCoB if it was Savage mode.

I still kinda find this hard to believe, given that they also said that they're taking clear percentages into account. Not to mention the huge amount of people that have made it known that they find locking story content behind difficult raid content to be unacceptable. I dunno. I'm just waiting to see an official announcement and translation rather than stuff picked from interviews that may or may not be exactly what's on the tin.

[Yamimarik]

I still kinda find this hard to believe, given that they also said that they're taking clear percentages into account. Not to mention the huge amount of people that have made it known that they find locking story content behind difficult raid content to be unacceptable. I dunno. I'm just waiting to see an official announcement and translation rather than stuff picked from interviews that may or may not be exactly what's on the tin.

Oh no, I concur with you honestly. I'd rather have an official Mod or Yoshi-P announcement on the forums or in an official LL or something myself. It was more just towards the OP as to where he'd heard what he was talking about, and I knew what I had said was easily found in various sources.

[Dualblade]

Alexander NM, even being considered to be the nerfed/echo'd version of current coils, will still be much harder than coils were after such because we won't be outgearing it, or atleast not until HM/Savage comes out and people start getting gear from it.

Also devs never said EVERYONE will beat it in 1-2 days, they just expect it to be beaten in that time frame. As in atleast one group will have it done by atleast the second day. If they still have things similar to T5 there will be plenty of people who won't be completing it.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Alexander NM, even being considered to be the nerfed/echo'd version of current coils, will still be much harder than coils were after such because we won't be outgearing it, or atleast not until HM/Savage comes out and people start getting gear from it.

Also devs never said EVERYONE will beat it in 1-2 days, they just expect it to be beaten in that time frame. As in atleast one group will have it done by atleast the second day. If they still have things similar to T5 there will be plenty of people who won't be completing it.

Yoshida said at the nico nico thing that Alexander normal was for people to "relax and enjoy the story." It could be beaten multiple times each week and you get one piece of gear a week. It's pretty much the same as LFR in WoW. It's a mode designed so that everyone can beat it.

AKA: not difficult / easy mode.

The Alexander Hard Mode will be the one that's equivelant to coil in difficulty, or as Yoshi said. "About as hard as FcoB".

[Legacy_Wolfwood]

tomes and alex nm should provide ilvl gear that will eventually get you to clear all content in the game up to alex nm with a minor start for alex hm then alex hm should givre the ilvl needed to complete that content

[Skeith-Adeline]

The hardest instances in the game should reward players with the absolute best gear; however, not all stats are evenly weighted. Using items that drop from coil to increase purchased gear to grow in strength is fair. HOWEVER again, 10 ilvls isn't enough. It must be a large enough increase. 20 ilvls at the least. Esoterics shouldn't be able to upgraded through casual alexander.

[SDaemon]

The hardest instances in the game should reward players with the absolute best gear; however, not all stats are evenly weighted. Using items that drop from coil to increase purchased gear to grow in strength is fair. HOWEVER again, 10 ilvls isn't enough. It must be a large enough increase. 20 ilvls at the least. Esoterics shouldn't be able to upgraded through casual alexander.

No. Just no.

[Eidolon]

As a raider, I do like the idea of the -best- gear being put in raids. I don't feel there should be a huge disparity between raid gear vs. Tome gear, though.

The system we have right now is... Pretty good. I'd rather they keep upgrade items to the top tier raid, but I understand their logic and trying to catch people up. I like i130 vs i120 distinction as it's not a -huge- gap, but it is a noticeable one.

[kehn]

some people in this forum just post the dumbest stuff......

[Zdenka]

From what I understand

Alexander Hard Mode will be equivalent to how difficult story missions are, Praetorium, Westwind, Steps of Faith, Hard Mode Primals, etc.

Alexander Savage Mode will be equivalent to a difficulty between FCOB -> Savage 2nd Coil


I don't presume to know what ilvls each of the 2 token sets will be.