I was wondering what everyone thought of maybe putting a higher level cap on some of the good rares people are after at 50. To me, when I'm at 50 and hurting for eq, it's kind of frustrating seeing that 30 walk around with ice armor, crown of might, light spiked gauntlets, etc... And, unless he dies and his armor is sacced by another guy around rank 30 who has armor just as good as the guy he just killed, then it would take a while for that armor to circulate back up to the pinn range, i.e. 30>35>40>45>50. Like not being able to touch rare stuff before 15, maybe give something like the light spiked gauntlets a cap at 40, since there are some classes that are able to obtain them by themselves at 40. Perhaps put a 50 cap on the super elite items(Ring of Abyss, Adeptus torso and face, Soulblight). I'm sure that I'm not seeing all the sides to this, but some feedback would be nice
Level Cap on Rares?
Probably some thief looted some pinnacled corpse.
Agree completely with the Original Post. The only people this would hurt are rank sitting niche Pkers, and thats not a bad thing at all.
You guys need to go out and search for some non rare eq. For AC and save protections there are an abundant supply of non rare eq that is almost as good as their non rare counterparts. The only thing that rares will provide is more hit/dam on armor pieces. In which case you should focus hit/dam on weapons. There are some nice +3/3 hit/dam and some +5 hit or dam non rares out there.
Yes all of that is true - but its not what this thread is about. I can indeed replace a lot of the standard rares with slightly lesser nonrare options, that doesn't mean I should have to.
Im so tired of reading threads like this, no offense, but rare cap is 15. And there are rules for looting, iff they do not get to their corpse within roughly one minute, you have free range to loot.
Also there is this. Level 33 ogre zerk in average gear sees 30 dk in senselessly powerful gear running off. Zerk chases and laglocks, easy to rape a dk who is hurt with lag right. Ogre zerk gets gear. Necro sees zerk, dead zerk. Now pally sees necro with gear. Pally takes necro. Pally has gear. Now this whole time these people are probably leveling. So with each pk, it is circulating. The eq is not meant for JUST pinns. Yea it is gonna be more common to see pinns in it. But the gear in game is meant for the whole pbase.
Just cause a lowbie got a ridiculous pit find, or a lucky corpse, does not mean they should not have them. If they got ahold of them by any means, short of cheating or abusing ooc, then they SHOULD have them.
Im so tired of reading threads like this, no offense, but rare cap is 15. And there are rules for looting, iff they do not get to their corpse within roughly one minute, you have free range to loot.
Also there is this. Level 33 ogre zerk in average gear sees 30 dk in senselessly powerful gear running off. Zerk chases and laglocks, easy to rape a dk who is hurt with lag right. Ogre zerk gets gear. Necro sees zerk, dead zerk. Now pally sees necro with gear. Pally takes necro. Pally has gear. Now this whole time these people are probably leveling. So with each pk, it is circulating. The eq is not meant for JUST pinns. Yea it is gonna be more common to see pinns in it. But the gear in game is meant for the whole pbase.
Just cause a lowbie got a ridiculous pit find, or a lucky corpse, does not mean they should not have them. If they got ahold of them by any means, short of cheating or abusing ooc, then they SHOULD have them.
Keep in mind that a low level character who has a lot of rares which he is not able to get in a group of three is not allowed to pk agressively.
To me, when I'm at 50 and hurting for eq, it's kind of frustrating seeing that 30 walk around with ice armor, crown of might, light spiked gauntlets, etc... And, unless he dies and his armor is sacced by another guy around rank 30 who has armor just as good as the guy he just killed, then it would take a while for that armor to circulate back up to the pinn range,
I'm sure lower-ranked characters find it frustrating to find 50's wearing low-level rares too.
50's don't have a god-given right to have the best EQ, it's just more easily accessible to them. If it's gotten by legit means, then there's nothing wrong with a rank 30 wearing higher level equipment provided they don't break the rules - PKing with this EQ. I agree with this rule fully.
Equipment is not as important at lower ranks, but that shouldn't suggest that they can't have it if gained through legitimate means. 1-40 isn't just a transitional period that means nothing with the game starting at 50, the game starts at rank 1 and you can touch rares as early as 15. Lowbies have just as much right to high level equipment as 50's do, they are just restricted in how they can use it for balance reasons.
I personally aren't too bothered about the way EQ is at the moment because I am keen on the struggle to find and keep equipment, but I can understand how it is an issue and not something most of the player base enjoy. If the general consensus was that something should be done about the current EQ situation then fair enough, but just in my own personal opinion, this isn't the way to do it.
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Keep in mind that a low level character who has a lot of rares which he is not able to get in a group of three is not allowed to pk agressively.
Heh... I remember while playing Vhalen how much I had to keep that rule in mind. 100 hours at 30, only 6 pks, all because I managed to put together one hell of a suit from those 6 and had to stop myself. 
And I still almost beat you with an under trained and armed monk
Monks dont need to be armed... They are better like that...