equipping..

[Kyzarius]

I will keep this as neutral as possible..

Seems nearly impossible at the moment to equip

Ironically, there is no one on to kill to get gear from either. Only a few characters I have seen have any decent gear and they log anytime things get dangerous for them, or are so decked those of us in near rags cant harm them.

of my two pinns right now, one is in semi good gear but with holes filled with very low lvl non rare stuff.

the other pinn is barely able to compete, as he is melee and cannot get any weapons or hit/dam armor beyond some basics.

I think the biggest issue is not the absence of winter/deso rares, it is the complete void left by "common realm" rares being all gone.

[the_nightmare]

It reminds me of the good old days when wearing mithril at 50 was considered like something normal.

[Kyzarius]

It reminds me of the good old days when wearing mithril at 50 was considered like something normal.

thats fine and all, when everyone has access to that gear.

but right now it seems 80% of the pinns are in rags while 20% are decked in whats left of the rares. Now you can do quite well on SOME classes with very little or even no gear. Though at some point, as others have pointed out...having NO saves gear, NO AC gear, NO HP gear, against people who have ALL of that and 50/50 hit dam is just statistically impossible.

Add to it that we now have all these rogues, and all they are doing is killing the already undergeared folks...

I was ok with the high end uniques and rares crumbling and being as rare as they should be, but the common things from the general areas also being absent for two weeks now is pretty harsh...Why even login to equip when you spend your entire time going and looking at mobs who have nothing.

[the_nightmare]

I hope that the things will be fixed soon.

[Dead Voodoo Doll]

patience

[Zhokril]

There is nothing to be "fixed". Unless of course you all want a mandatory rare purge. Personally, I think things would just settle back to who has rares at the moment.

[f0xx]

Unless of course you all want a mandatory rare purge.

Yes, I was just about to suggest that.

[Kyzarius]

just seems there are less rares now than ever before.

[Twinblades713]

Rare purge!

[Brehan]

Ok yes people are tired of items not being in, tired of things crumbling etc... Zhokril has done the hard part all you need to do is pick up some slack and do the easy part. Log on your shelved, side projects that will be purged anyway and allow things to flow as it should, everyone does this with at least one to 2 chars and some of the problem will go away. I have already taken a char that is fully decked that I know I will not have time for this month and personally purged him of items. Once this count get back to what it should be then and only then will these things stop happening. I applaud Zhokril for doing this because rares uniques should be just that rare and unique. Now weather or not the numbers will be increased of any items that will be up to the Upper eschelon of the Administration, and believe me this is not just affecting your characters it is affecting ours as well.

[Ex-D&Der]

Isn't there some way to purge rares from characters who have not logged in the required amount of time without them logging in? I assumed this was part of what was being fixed.

[f0xx]

Isn't there some way to purge rares from characters who have not logged in the required amount of time without them logging in? I assumed this was part of what was being fixed.

I thought the same, and this might actually be the case, but the month needs to pass for a purge to happen.

[KRins]

Can we just go to flippin' drop rates already? I mean... it was broken before Zhokril fixed it...and now its more broken. Take the power out of the hands of people and place it in percentages. You can't bitch at a .5% drop rate. It just sucks to be you it didn't drop.

[Zhokril]

Heh. There appears to be no rares because you all have become accustomed to there being about twice as many rares around as there ever should have been.

There is nothing broken about the current state. Its something you'll learn to adjust to before long.

Once rares are back down to where they should be, whether or not the availability of rares in general should be increased will be decided by the administration.

[The-Nameless]

Heh. There appears to be no rares because you all have become accustomed to there being about twice as many rares around as there ever should have been.

There is nothing broken about the current state. Its something you'll learn to adjust to before long.

Once rares are back down to where they should be, whether or not the availability of rares in general should be increased will be decided by the administration.

~The Man

Agreed.

[Imoutgoodbye]

Agreed.

I agree that he just laid the smack down.

If ya SSSSSSMEEEELLLLLL what the Zho-IS COOKIN'!

[Kyzarius]

Heh. There appears to be no rares because you all have become accustomed to there being about twice as many rares around as there ever should have been.

There is nothing broken about the current state. Its something you'll learn to adjust to before long.

Once rares are back down to where they should be, whether or not the availability of rares in general should be increased will be decided by the administration.

so the man has cut our dose!!! see told ya

so once he gets the lever fixed he might hook us all back up.

at least the rants about a supposed shortage wasnt all pure loot greed...

[Hegemon]

If that was twice as "bad" as it should have been, I fear what will come to pass.

[mya]

I am up for a Rare purge.

[Mali]

Another solution would be an enforced 2 character per IP limit.

[Lytholm]

Another solution would be an enforced 2 character per IP limit.

Hasn't there been a drive for 'more competitive PK in non-god suits.' How exactly did you think that was going to happen? If there are less rares that's less god suits. People are going to have to learn to fight in non-rare items again.

Look on the bright side - full loots aren't going to slow you down THAT much now. Especially as you can keep a 'normal' re-equip suit in your locker...

Lytholm.

[Chromatic]

I am up for a Rare purge.

I agree with mya on this. I think it would help the new rare program off on the right foot without causing any bugs and allow it to run as intended from the start. The people with most of the best gear will certainly be able to regain it, and it will clear up some of the rares at lower levels hopefully.

And even though my last three chars I've started have been evils, I'd like to start a campaign to make the mithril vest nonrare.

[Hegemon]

Well, no see the problem there is that instead of having a larger pool of rares spread out among the pbase, you get a smaller pool held by fewer people. This means relatively speaking it is even MORE of a God-Suit since you will be facing people in comparatively weaker EQ.

That's sort of the reverse of what people (seem to) want, which is a re-balancing of rares/uniques/non-rares in order to create less of an emphasis on EQ, so your "base set" of mithril/tainted/red dragon is actually something you won't get two rounded with.

Or at least that's how I see things.

[L-A]

What is considered 'god suit' status (hit/dam/ac/saves) and what is considers OK and what would you not go and see your grandmother in?

I always see 60/60 hit/dam base as DECKED to the teeth.

-30 saves in all categories is INCREDIBLE (esp on melee's) and certianly allows you to fight (assuming no vuln).

If I had 40/40 hit/dam I'd be happy to fight. Yes, it sucks vs 60/60 BUT I have fought this battle before. Its hard but you can get by (think shield block...). Yes, othertimes you die but I always say it as a learning curve. I didnt' agree with the 'just get better eq' which seemed to be the way (melee especially) went.

As for more rares on some character - I expect we see the mages/communers ending up with more over time as they have higher survivablity and melee's with higher turnover (maybe, players these days are pretty good at staying alive....).

The problem I see right now is that we have players in 'god suits' who aren't killed yet to fix it. I assure you its only a matter of time - if it takes a few of you to bring one down, well, its dirty and not good to make a habit of it but players who are killing everyone else know (or should) that people will have to do this and should be playing to expect it. This doesn't mean I'm advocating 'get your pitchfork, group up we're going lynch him!!!!' - but hell, why wait if he's in combat with someone else. Stick him, reduce his rare suit (so they are like everyone else) and away we go.

I'm close to lvl 50 again, give me a week and we'll see if I'm still singing the same tune....

L-A

[jibber]

Ironically.. everyone here complaining about rares (or at least most of them) log off when someone with rares logs on.

You're not going to get rares by logging off.

At times, I log on, and half, if not all of the 50 playerbase log off immediately. Do they expect me to just drop all my stuff and sac it all for them to have a chance?

Nah.. they expect a rare purge, because they think that'll help them to get back up with the big guns because they're too lazy to try and PK with what they got.

And you know, I'm not against a rare purge, but it better be for the right reasons (and not for reasons of people not being decked, because they log off when they see trouble). If there's a rare purge, expect me back up on top in a matter of days.