Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
Actually, it'd be a little worse than that. If we had solid horizontal progression options, the bean-counters would insist that you have ALL of the optimum sets of gear.

Bean-counter: Eh, so you're a BRD, eh? I see you have Orichalcum Earrings of Aiming; that's good for most stuff, but you're planning on doing instance X, right? Hope you have Alabaster Earrings for the reduced Blunt Arrow recast. Don't forget you'll need your Eldrich Earclasps to turn your elemental attacks into physical damage; you won't be using them in instance X, but Y comes after and you'll need it there for sure, thanks to the boss's magic resistance. Now, let's talk about the REST of your gear...

I'd welcome this kind of thing, actually - so long as we had the inventory space to accomodate it all...
That isn't Horizontal Progression. That is forced Vertical Progression. There is no other choice if one choice is 100% better.

Like for example, why go into a dungeon with an ilvl150 book when you have a ilvl200 book? There is no choice there, one is 100% better.

You must of been playing pretty bad games if that is what they made you do.