A question about veteran gear drops...

LioraValkyrie

I was just thinking about the fact that you get fancy rewards (maelstrom weapons, worm cult set, willpower set, etc.) for completing things like veteran trials, gold pledges and maelstrom arena. Ok, great, but haven't you already completed the content with the gear you already had in order to get these rewards? So your reward, really, is that next time you play that particular dungeon it will be easier! Instead, shouldn't you get the fanciest gear randomly from safeboxes, or from beating world bosses or the main questlines, in order to enable you to complete the hardest content in the game? Because, if you've already beaten it, getting the best gear will only make it easier in future which is, well, kind of anticlimatic. Some of you will probably argue that this gear will allow you to complete said content faster, thus giving you a chance to grace the leaderboards. Fair point. Unfortunately, my fingers are too slow and ping too high to ever aspire to such a thing. I'm just thinking about your average player. Discuss

imnotanother

Luckily, some of the sets are BoE so we are able to trade or sell to players that are looking for the gear but having trouble to obtain it themselves.

Also, there are plenty of sets, that you can craft, that are equivalent or better than drop sets (also you don't deal with the RNG).

starkerealm

For stuff like Trials, the goal isn't to play it once, but to keep getting better at the content. For stuff like dungeons, it's not expected to be the last thing you do in the game.

Also, in most cases you can actually get some of the best in slot options from the game without setting foot in a dungeon or any content really, and instead crafting it for yourself. This (obviously) doesn't apply when you're looking for jewelry, but for weapons and armor? You have a wide range of crafting options available.

Also, you can get enchanted jewelry through a number of methods, such as Thieves' Caches. So even then you're not forced to run dungeons in order to start gearing up for endgame.

Ep1kMalware

LioraValkyrie wrote: »

I was just thinking about the fact that you get fancy rewards (maelstrom weapons, worm cult set, willpower set, etc.) for completing things like veteran trials, gold pledges and maelstrom arena. Ok, great, but haven't you already completed the content with the gear you already had in order to get these rewards? So your reward, really, is that next time you play that particular dungeon it will be easier! Instead, shouldn't you get the fanciest gear randomly from safeboxes, or from beating world bosses or the main questlines, in order to enable you to complete the hardest content in the game? Because, if you've already beaten it, getting the best gear will only make it easier in future which is, well, kind of anticlimatic. Some of you will probably argue that this gear will allow you to complete said content faster, thus giving you a chance to grace the leaderboards. Fair point. Unfortunately, my fingers are too slow and ping too high to ever aspire to such a thing. I'm just thinking about your average player. Discuss

a guy on ps4 with all crafted gear and like 270 cp gor flawless conquerer. stamnb. he posted a thread.

if you gave players mehrune's razor they'd still *** about content being too hard. I don't think anything needs to change.