I know that people will get upset over this opinion...but really, who cares if someone buys gear from content they never ran? Its no different than hardcore PvP players buying monster helms from The Golden. I don't care that they have never run those dungeons...doesn't affect me one little bit. In my opinion people shouldn't be forced to run content they don't like to get the gear they are looking for...they should be ENCOURAGED to run content outside of their wheelhouse, but never feel forced....if someone wants to spend all their time in PvP, or in trials, or fishing...that is all well and good and meets the philosophy of playing how you want. If some hardcore fisherman wants to buy perfected false god....what does it really matter? just opens a market for gear that would otherwise be deconned or sold.
I know that people will get upset over this opinion...but really, who cares if someone buys gear from content they never ran? Its no different than hardcore PvP players buying monster helms from The Golden. I don't care that they have never run those dungeons...doesn't affect me one little bit. In my opinion people shouldn't be forced to run content they don't like to get the gear they are looking for...they should be ENCOURAGED to run content outside of their wheelhouse, but never feel forced....if someone wants to spend all their time in PvP, or in trials, or fishing...that is all well and good and meets the philosophy of playing how you want. If some hardcore fisherman wants to buy perfected false god....what does it really matter? just opens a market for gear that would otherwise be deconned or sold.
Contaminate wrote: »If you want the gear, prove you can even make use of it. Clear the content yourself. It’s already tradable within your group.
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »Oh boy, here we go again. This was possible at launch, and you know what? People complained about players having BiS builds without ever having run a single dungeon.
You want the gear? Do the content. Normals are easy, and unless you're in a score pushing group you don't need perfected.
TonyDemonLord wrote: »Contaminate wrote: »If you want the gear, prove you can even make use of it. Clear the content yourself. It’s already tradable within your group.
But what about those people who don’t have 11 other friends to run a dungeon with? This has nothing to do with people proving themselves because what if they don’t want to grind it for hours and hours. And yes I know it’s tradable with group members but what if another person didn’t run the dungeon with you and you wanted to give them armor.
It can still be given to the the person who needs it, or... the person that "really" needed it can buy it on a trader, no problems there...UntilValhalla13 wrote: »Imagine someone in a run getting a very rare yet much needed piece of gear. We'll randomly use a Lokke dagger, for example.
Player 1 gets that drop and someone else in the run badly needs it. It's the last piece they need. Because it's so stupidly rare, the prices on the traders are absurd. Player 1 decides that, instead of giving it to one of the people that needed it, he decides to put it on a trader for 5 million.
TonyDemonLord wrote: »Contaminate wrote: »If you want the gear, prove you can even make use of it. Clear the content yourself. It’s already tradable within your group.
@/Contaminate But what about those people who don’t have 11 other friends to run a dungeon with? This has nothing to do with people proving themselves because what if they don’t want to grind it for hours and hours. And yes I know it’s tradable with group members but what if another person didn’t run the dungeon with you and you wanted to give them armor.
Edit: As others pointed out, it became BoP when you had to spend money to acquire said sets through subscription or dlc. So it’s not an absurd reason, it’s much worse. It’s greed. So the only way you would have BoP BiS sets only acquirable from pvp is if they would create a new pvp mode locked behind a new chapter.
UntilValhalla13 wrote: »Imagine someone in a run getting a very rare yet much needed piece of gear. We'll randomly use a Lokke dagger, for example.
Player 1 gets that drop and someone else in the run badly needs it. It's the last piece they need. Because it's so stupidly rare, the prices on the traders are absurd. Player 1 decides that, instead of giving it to one of the people that needed it, he decides to put it on a trader for 5 million.
Player 1 wouldn't even have been able to complete the trial without the other people, much less get this item which only drops from the last boss.