Quote Originally Posted by Scarface View Post
Leve system for REAL NMs?!?! Like seriously dude, look what the FNMs are like.....and you think that by adding more LEVE NMs it will solve the issue we're talking about in this entire thread?

Let me recap it for you.

Rare Gear [Can I have it?] Not everyone on the server using the same Dodore body bc they farm it more than Spook...
Spawn time/method has nothing to do with the difficulty of the actual NM...these are separate discussions. Faction NMs should be hard, there's no debating that, especially since you can retry for free on a failure they should be very, very, hard.

Another issue is just the plain lack of variety in gear right now at high ranks. With so much overlap in gear usage, everybody runs around in essentially 2 battle sets, a mage set, and a crafter set at the highest ranks. IMO...there is a general lack of variety in just the basic crafted r40-50 gear compared to the variety you get during r20-40. Doing a quick ZAM query - there are 366 items r20-29, 328 items from r30-39, and 40-50 (Even with an extra rank) there are 224 pieces of gear. And that 224 includes the NM gear. There should be well over 300 items 40-50 that can be crafted and rare gear on top of that.