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Originally Posted by Noah EQ2  You don't get it. Raid gear should be upgraded by raid mobs on the next tier - not some fuckin 4 man group named mob that anyone can camp. If you want that "uber gear" - raid the tier before and get it if you think you need the extra stats.
In this case - Items have lvls on them. A lvl 69 item "Fabled" / raid will be artificially shit compared to a lvl 75 Legenary/TS item. Personally, who cares if a raider doesnt get upgrades from 71-80 while exping in groups... they could give a shit as they plow ass thru 10 lvls and go for what they like - Raid content. |
This is valid when you don't add a new tier, so yeah, raid gear of KoS for example shouldn't be worse than legendary groupable gear from EoF (and I don't know if it's true or not honestly, never compared them), but you know better than me how level fits into these equations.
Today saying you need to raid DoF in order to to raid KoS would be ridicolous.
KoS is being raided by guilds still, before they tackle EoF raids. Whether this is a skippable step or not, I'll leave it to more experienced people to judge, but the content is still heavily used.
The same will apply for Kunark with 10 extra levels, t7 stuff out of the window, welcome t8 stuff. Raiders won't touch a piece of gear till the next raid content. Will EoF raid gear be needed to raid Kunark? Unlikely, but I may be wrong, for sure it will be a good starting point.
Does that suck? Tell devs to stop adding levels, honestly it's not really encouraging for a new player having 80 levels to grind. It's the new tiers the problem, not the new gear.