Uber rare toning or flooding

I think that mages are powerhouses even without this suits.A bmage with such suit is going to have around -600 ac

Which is balanced by the fact that he has no HP gear or Mana gear, and little saves.

You give some, you take some.

You guys just like to bitch a whole lot dont you?

That being said, I was mildly entertained for the duration of the post.

Esp with Grim's post.

Grim makes the forum worth reading.

I am sorry, but that is the funniest thing I have ever seen!! Sorry for not being sensitive to the P.C community.

its humerous, imo.

both my pinns have no problem gearing in the current state of the game. One of them has only gotten one weapon from pvp.

Everything else I obtain by running routes to the mobs, checking constantly and playing the game. For most items that give a particular stat there is always something else of moderate comparison. At some point being "decked" does sway battles in your favor, however, from the perspective of being well armored at times and not so much at others it quickly becomes apparant the lvl of pk skill and how it effects things.

The suit on one of my toons right now has been gathered and upgraded over the last three weeks.

I think some of the complaints stem from the mentality "I want it, and I want it NOW", not a crippling shortage of items.

What fires me up is when people...under a thin veil of Ic, flame you in game for having good armor. Telling you how they will make sure you never get armor again, and other such vapid threats. Some players here seem to think gathering armor and getting a solid suit should be easier than it is, and that you have somehow cheated when you spend weeks gathering one piece at a time.

I feel that the pbase is just too small now to warrant having such a line between adeptus, and normal re equip gear.

Yes skill doe smatter, but the problem comes with a gorup of the highly skilled players constantly getting elite suits, and wrecking with chars in godsuits. Now add in life insurance, and you have characters who can continually destroy for months. The reason? 240 ac, 50/50 hit dam vs 400 ac and 65/70 hit dam. Skill is a large large part, and weapon selection, but we have some insanely strong pkes here. I am fairly strong myself, and I know running around as my last warrior I could confidently attack anyone without fear (save a VERY select few) because with my gear setup I could just deal way too much damage. Now even after a few deaths, and eq losses, I was able to do very well, but that is because I am a moderately smart player who has been here ages.

I just think the EQ needs to be a bit closer in what it does. The fact a godsuit in FL has: The best hit/dam, causes paralysis, removes dirt kicks, gives you mental resist, etc etc. Thats such a huge rift to get over. espescially with the current mentality of sacrifice EVERYTHING that you cannot carry when you PK someone. My current char has had to piece together stuff (Mostly buying from thieves honestly) that I want because it is not available in game, or is on incredibly decked chars who are rolling people. Who has 3-5 weeks to dump into looking for a weapon that has not been available for literal months?

I only have one complaint.

Why can't I find any teeth necklaces? There is truly something wrong with that.

I only have one complaint.

Why can't I find any teeth necklaces? There is truly something wrong with that.

go furthur up the mountain.

Where Are My Apprentice Cloacks! Man You Immortals Suck, We Woant More Rares Now!!!!

I find it annoying that, even with the purges each month, you have people that are decked and never use it. IE Healers or the like. It is rather annoying to know that some characters, no names added, log on the minimum required time and hold certain insane rares for months and months at a time. Bounties rarely work to keep equipment circulated unless it is on someone that plays enough to be collected. For instance, when I make a new pinnacle, if I am going to play that one most often. I'll destroy or give away the equipment with my last pinnacle that I'm not going to play quite as much. But I know for a fact there are multiple people out there, with multiple decked 50s. It does make certain classes almost pointless to rank/pinnacle. Once you get 50 you get worked by plenty of decked people who log on(OOC) specifically to kill you and get a cheap kill or pad their little useless records. I agree with almost everything Krins has been saying, honestly enough. I have been gone for over a year and this was the reason I left in the first place. I am not saying there should be a billion pieces of great equipment, I would never pk again if all I had to do is get the equipment that's in. BUT, I do think there needs to be something put in order so UBER decking is more difficult or requires more work to upkeep.

Changes Suggested:

Maybe make a required time PER rare/unique someone has. So if someone is DECKED big time. Like Oppressant(who plays a TON, not calling you out like you don't play, just naming your name cause you got some shiny stuffs), would require the playtime that Oppressant puts in. Like if you are gonna hold the only 1 of 2 pieces of something, I'd love to see you in the 100+ hours I've put in this month. But I've seen certain characters who have had the same set and the same UBER gear for well over 3 months.

I also think Life-Insurance should be taken out of the game. Completely ridiculous that people can get decked, then stay that way indefinitely. I mean unless they somehow die, which rarely happens in the first place. If you can't stay alive without life-insurance and keep that gear, you shouldn't have it. It makes a no worry situation for people, which is annoying to say the least. I work and finally kill some uber decked person and go to loot, and get nothing. Wow, useless work there.

CHANGES NEEDED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

so up the requirements..

ok..

so when I go on vacation with my family for a week, I should be penalized?

A week is not the length of a month, and the requirements are set in months. If you go on a week vacation, and still can't hit the LOW requirements for holding rares, then yeah you should lose it. And I still think Life Insurance should be gone. Especially considering the effects of it. I hate how some people's entire RP is changed cause they have life insurance. A regularly scared person will become fearless, not because they are fearless, but because they can't lose their shiny gear. That is rather sad. Especially considering, isn't the point of UBER gear to keep you UBER so you don't die like a little baby? I guess not, so give them Life Insurance and then they get the "who cares if I die, I won't lose my bada$$ gear if I do anyways" attitude. But really, requirements for keeping your rares for the month are like what 10 hours? Who doesn't play that long in an entire month! You can play 10 hours in 2 days or a week, even for those of us who have very little time to play. You can get that much. Even if it is 20 hours! That's NOTHING in a month. figure it this way, 20 hours is only being on 2.8% of a month. Everyone has a 98% chance of not seeing that character that only plays 20 hours in a month.

I think life-insurance should definately be removed. I have been in plenty of cabals and I have never used life-insurance. Sure, its great to know you will not lose your equipment, but hell... that alone messes up the rare circulation. With life-insurance it takes away every rare from circulation. And yes, there are many people who keep rares on what I will call "extra" characters. Maybe we should limit everyone to a max of two lvl 50 characters? I mean come on, there are a lot of even little rares that are never in. Where is the mithril vest? Seriously? Are there that many people holding these things?

Am I the only one who really never has trouble getting enough eq to kill people and take theirs?

I hate how some people's entire RP is changed cause they have life insurance. A regularly scared person will become fearless' date=' not because they are fearless, but because they can't lose their shiny gear. That is rather sad.[/quote']

What I find sad, is that people feel the need to complain about something so they have an excuse that they cannot PK someone.

Example:

"Hey look, this person beats me because he has uber EQ, and he has uber EQ because there is life insurance."

And it is never like:

"Hey, look, this person beat me because he is better than me."

Also, if you get killed while you are wearing nice EQ, it goes like that:

"**** your gang/tagging. I was already fighting someone else!"

And never:

"The fact that I fought someone 5 minutes ago doesn't automatically protect me against anyone else. Well done."

Life insurance goes both ways. I don't see how it can be OP when it is available to you as well. You all just need excuses for the times when you die. Will be fun to see what excuse you are gonna use when LI is gone.

PS. I very rarely use LI myself since I find the price too high and makes me less careful, and my character's life is much more important than a few smelly pieces of EQ.

I could not care less about Uber eq, unless you say that you going to remove Healing Gear or mental resist eq, which i support.

I just want access to my Minor Globe, Banner and some decend Avg25 weapon that is cursed/nodrop. A Silver Armor (evil equivalent is always out ), those spiked gloves, my Djin bands, my Sheath and those runed cloaks.

I couldn't care less that you have Hellfury or adeptus arms on your legs, as long as i have 30 Hit/dam and 40 saves, I am going to come up with a plan to get you.

as long as i have 30 Hit/dam and 40 saves

Lol, you don't want much it seems

Wow, that's a generic excuse for the Uber equiped people to feel like they are amazing too there Foxx. The, "I just ripped you apart naked guy cause you suck" bs has to go. If you do not admit that gear plays a huge role in this game, you aren't playing at all. Or you are playing Heralds that do not use gear. Gear is this entire game, until you run into a person of equal gear, which it's pretty rare that even happens these days. I never complain about people having life insurance that beat me, I am complaining about the people who suck, have good gear, I kill, and then can't loot any of their gear cause they had life insurance. That's garbage. I never use it, nor ever will because if you can kill me, which btw no one has killed this character yet, then you deserve my gear.