6:30 am, October 4, 2013
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What is the point of gear tiers?
No, contrary to every other gear-thread, this isn't about ascended gear. It's actually the opposite - this is about tiers below exotic.
I am currently still levelling my warrior. He's around 60. He hasn't crafted a single item and hasn't bought a single piece of gear. Since levelling by killing **** is painfully slow, I decided to level by doing AC runs. I started doing those around 40 and have been gaining gold and levels nicely. To do the AC runs I use the dropped gear - which means I run around in greens, sometimes a gold. Given how I am downscaled, the fact that I do not have top of the line gear for my level, matters little.
Once I reach 80, I plan on using the dropped gear until I get enough gold/karma/tokens to get the exotics I want. I do not plan on buying the best green gear, then moving onto the best gold gear and then exotics. I will go directly to max gear.
I understand gear tiers in games such as D3 (my monk used blue weapons when doing Inferno because the stats on those were better than the golds I could afford) or even GW1 (a game where stats were tied to looks and getting the stats you wanted on the pretty you wanted was part of the endgame), but what is the point of gear tiers in a game where players can take any skin they wish, apply it to any stats they wish AND gear with max stats is fairly easily accessible? Why waste everyone's time by even designing and having so many tiers?
To sell T-Stones?
I am currently still levelling my warrior. He's around 60. He hasn't crafted a single item and hasn't bought a single piece of gear. Since levelling by killing **** is painfully slow, I decided to level by doing AC runs. I started doing those around 40 and have been gaining gold and levels nicely. To do the AC runs I use the dropped gear - which means I run around in greens, sometimes a gold. Given how I am downscaled, the fact that I do not have top of the line gear for my level, matters little.
Once I reach 80, I plan on using the dropped gear until I get enough gold/karma/tokens to get the exotics I want. I do not plan on buying the best green gear, then moving onto the best gold gear and then exotics. I will go directly to max gear.
I understand gear tiers in games such as D3 (my monk used blue weapons when doing Inferno because the stats on those were better than the golds I could afford) or even GW1 (a game where stats were tied to looks and getting the stats you wanted on the pretty you wanted was part of the endgame), but what is the point of gear tiers in a game where players can take any skin they wish, apply it to any stats they wish AND gear with max stats is fairly easily accessible? Why waste everyone's time by even designing and having so many tiers?
To sell T-Stones?