Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
This one is a big nope to me. No one should be expected to have full HQ / dungeon armor pre 50. Even as a tank mostly in level appropriate NQ whites there shouldn't be any real issue assuming normal pulls and a half competent healer.

Also... I don't think anyone makes HQ crafts for that level range to be actually used by people. I think the intended market for that stuff are crafters doing turn-ins, thus the ridiculous price.
Players were complaining about the Brayflox set in Stone Vigil. They'd have been happy with a NQ which I hadn't picked up from quests because I took one look at the defense values and and the fact that only one piece had a whole extra 1 vitality and quickly figured my current set was better than the quest rewards. But apparently even after linking the sets to show that Brayflox was better than NQ, groups were still bothered by my being in Brayflox. My solution to players throwing a fit about seeing a tank in Brayflox gear in SV was to lvl up ARM high enough to craft the lvl40 set (I already had ARM at 30 so it wasn't a hard task) and just glammed it over the Brayflox and the issue disappeared.

As I said, my experience completely changed the way I saw undergeared tanks in pre-50 content. If I couldn't afford a full set of crafted (NQ gear) then other new characters/players may have been in the same position.