Please remove the weekly lock out of stuff

[HyoMinPark]

Leveling is pretty different from gearing up at cap.

This.

While I didn't play 1.0, I know about the fatigue system. To me, that is something that actually prevents you from progressing at all in the game. Completely arbitrary and unnecessary. When you're at cap, unless you are a raider progressing in whatever tier of Savage content or EX primal, weekly gear lockouts and tome caps don't have as much restriction as activity hindering a leveling player's ability to level. So I have to respectfully disagree that weekly caps and lockouts are worse than the fatigue system.

Especially with Creator, people were clearing A12S in the crafted 250 gear. Sure maybe they had a piece or two of Shire or Augmented Shire gear, but most of them were probably in the crafted gear, yet they still cleared. Tome and loot lockouts didn't have that much of an impact on those raiders. For content outside of raids and EX primals, there really is no need to be ilvl 270 with a 275 weapon (I mean, unless you want to be, and that's your choice--you just gotta deal with the restrictions in place).. Because the "casual" content in this game barely requires the minimum ilvl, much less the maximum.

I'm sure for returning players that are probably still in Law or Esoteric gear, it's overwhelming to come back and be met with ilvl 250, 260, and 270 gear, and trying to meet minimum ilvl to start farming for current tomestones. However, playing catchup is still very easy, what with the PvP Garo gear, Lore being so easy to come by, and 250 crafted gear for those that are willing to pay for it. If you chose to, or had to, take an extended break from this game, then I do think it's a little unrealistic to expect to return months later and be able to just jump right into current content. Because then, if patch 3.55 content had the same requirements as, say, patch 3.0 content, this game would probably be pretty stale.