IWD's/EA's/Over-powered items

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Drakeero

Or you make it easy to get top tier gear with no real unobtainable "special" items and make it easier for people to advance in the game and after the server sits around with a lower playercount you will have an elite tier of everyone who'll trash everyone and whine that there's no longer any way they can become superior to everyone.

When has this ever been the case?

[Drakeero]

Originally Posted by Clockwork

When has this ever been the case?

On GK? For awhile kinda. I mean, top-top max stats hadn't really been possible for most the time I played until recently [barring bug abuse] but generally you either had 107 mental or you sucked. Everyone who considered themselves worth something had 107 mental and got all the dias - which I think still remains the second most popular currency next to USD.

Trust me, try fighting a war with 10 or so new, excited, players vs 1 oldbie who's spent the last 6 years level grinding and was around for a bunch of special high-tier irreplaceable items that are downright unobtainable to most new players. It's kind of a one sided slaughter. I don't think many people are going to be willing to play a game for a full year of daily grinding or 5+ years of casual play to reach a point where they don't horribly, horribly suck.

So yeah, making it a challenge to work for stuff does make it "worthwhile" when you actually get it, but it does kinda stifle growth. One of the only reasons why I keep coming back is that even though I'm far from being great I'm still "established" skill wise and "decent" gear wise so I don't have to repeat that soul-crushing gauntlet of getting from "noob" all the way up to "someone of relatively minor importance."