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Does it matter how someone gets their gear?
tigerspawn1
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I have been playing a lot of PVP lately. The number one complaint that I hear from players is that so and so bought their gear. Then they go on to complain about the fact that this person bought their gear. The fact is the person has better gear than you. It shouldn’t matter if they bought it or not. I would like to hear everyone’s opinion on the matter. If it does matter and you have a legit case convince me. Please no flaming.
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Now you understand why players who have bought their gear are resented.
From module 3 it shouldn't be an issue since the PvP tenacity gear all has to be earned .
And also if the people complaining about players buying gear are the same players who bought power directly from the cash shop then I wouldn't worry too much , if they are completely F2P players who grind everything then they have a point .
This line of thought ignores the possibilty of people earning AD, rather then simply buying it.
I see no difference between someone working for and saving AD to buy gear. Or someone simply running enough dungeons for the RNG gods to bless you with a drop. At least with earning AD, I know im making progress every day. And not simply hoping or counting on luck.
And I disagree with the only acceptable and approved way to earn gear equals beating ones self against a random number generator. Getting a lucky drop is not earning it. And having to suffer over and over and over again simply because one isnt getting lucky isnt some badge to be proud of.
That line of thinking is in my opinion is what makes elitist groups, intentionally or non-intentionally. There are many instances of MMORPGs where people can't even see the last dungeons or high-end dungeons in game, for them to even TRY because they didn't belong in a guild or a guild that can do it. So I do not agree with you that it's a bad thing. Whether or not you are F2P or not, the fact is people who do pay monthly fees on some of these games and NOT see an end dungeon is like paying full for a car and not owning it. We play for fun, and fun usually means you get to see the fantasy world of the game you're playing... ALL of it.
That being said, there are many people in this game who feel it is an accomplishment to farm all the set gears, I am one of them, but in no way do I force that on other people just because I did it.
Without going spelunking into this dish, here's my quick 2 cents on it.
This argument also completely ignores the crappy loot tables and RNG in this game. "Oh, sorry. You're a (insert you favorite descriptor here) for buying your gear, even though you've completed the dungeons to get it over 20 times. The game just clearly doesn't think you're epic enough to deserve the gear, and neither do we."
-_-.
Just something to bear in mind the next time. Ask questions before you jump to conclusions.
(and really, if people want to support Cryptic by buying Zen and selling it for AD to buy gear. Good on them in my opinon. Those who earn their AD otherways to buy it, cool beans.)
Additionally, I move a lot of the enchants from my TR (who I don't really like to play) to my HR and even moved the Greater Terror from my GWF to my HR as well. Just because someone has better gear than you do does not mean that they "bought it" in the sense that they were only able to get that gear by spending real money to do so.
The statement of "I could win too if I bought all my gear", which I have seen directed at my HR more than once, implies that I only won because of my gear, and not on the off chance that I was a better player, or that my team was working better than theirs. I am hardly a "pro" PvPer, but I can usually give as well as I get, but even then, sometimes you are the windshield and sometimes you are the bug.
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Being able to buy T1 and T2 from the seal vendor is a good idea. PW could give a player a key after completion of a dungeon. The key would unlock your ability to purchase the gear that is available in that dungeon. A player would only be given one key per completed run and key would be BOP. This would allow characters to be able to get gear they need after a certain number of runs instead of running dungeon 20 times and never getting the item that they need.
May be they did earn skill to work the AH or to earn AD through other means? Why do you assume because they bought the gear they have no-game related skill? Does this mean you never buy anything on AH as it is tainted with unearnestness? (wow a new word is born)
Heck - gate the gear to requiring at least one successful completion of the dungeon to unlock what you can get from it, for the seal vendors. At least then you know the person has experienced the dungeon a minimum of once...
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Honestly, it really doesn't matter how a specific player obtains his gear, because if he can, why can't you?
And saw someone mentioning about the need of earning gears. Sorry, people have lives to care about.
In PvP sometimes there'll be those players in full BiS gears and whatever else. It's cool, just let em own the lower geared toons, it's not like they're gonna lose anything anyway other than time, and they get one match of PvP done for their dailies, yay!
And if certain people keep whining about people paying real life currency to obtain their gears, then MMORPG games aren't suited for them, so they should either play some Solo games for self satisfaction or MOBA games for fair competition.
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Terry Pratchet The Thief Of Time
the bottom line is, there are different ways to acquire gear. there's only one way to acquire experience.
this thread will now be closed.