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Originally Posted by Bristlebane Loot is spectacularly dull, for one thing. |
I'm going to have to agree, and add a bit more. I havnt played on a PvP server, so I dont know how loot fares on that server, but in PvE, loot is dull because it just isnt that effective. I went into the game and took a few shots, then chopped em up for you to see. The first column is with 0 armor, and only a 2h weapon. The 2nd column, is full gear. Mainly Cobalt, with random broker pieces. No raid gear. I put up a SS of my stats during each for comparison. I am a lvl 60 ShadowKnight.
I fought single solo mobs, lvl 58, 60, and 63 with a single down ^. Now from looking at the screens, your equipment obviously helps, I'm not denying that. But it doesn’t make THAT big of a deal. Keep in mind that I have NO armor whatsoever equipped. Not just crappy armor, but NO armor. I was still able to solo all the way up to lvl 63 down^ (probably could have done a lvl 61 or 62 normal solo mob, but couldn’t find any at the time) with no gear. Stuff like this wouldn’t fly in EQ1. I'd also like to mention that after lvl 63, even in full gear the mobs are pretty hard to kill, mainly because of resists. So with or without armor, I can just about solo the same friggin mobs!
Its for this reason why I believe armor is so dull. It just isnt that effective. If this is the difference between full armor and no armor, then you can imagine how just about worthless upgrading a single piece of armor would be. The only pieces of armor that I get excited about are those with effects. The cobalt BP for instance procs a 70 pt heal every 2 seconds for about 16 seconds. Without that heal, my full armor SS's would have actually been closer to my no armor pics.
Now I dont know about all the fabled raid gear, but since the majority of people playing, and starting, dont have the uber raid gear, I feel this is a pretty good representation of how armor is perceived in the game.
Another reason I believe that add's to the dullness, is you gain WAY to much power per level. There really is no point in upgrading your gear that often, because gaining 1 more level will do just about as much as an entire set of better gear. Contrast to EQ1 where level was not THAT important, if you had solid gear to take hits. I remember lvl 60-62's tanking better then some lvl 65's vs giants in BoT. But this time around even a poorly equipped (i might even say naked) lvl 60 will outtank a decently equipped lvl 55-57 tank. Id say the powerband in EQ1 was 80% gear, 20% level, and in eq EQ2 its 20% gear, 80% level.
I remember a driving force in EQ1 was the thought that if I could just get that better piece of gear, I could go back and wtfpwn older content that beat the crap out of me. But in EQ2 theres no need. After about 6-7 levels, you can go back and solo group content, or even raid mobs. I just dont see a need to upgrade my gear, when I can just level and do whatever I wanted to do 10x easier.