08-18-2006, 01:10 PM
Quote:Even for causual players you can get pretty ok eq with just grind gold, buy from AH. You can't ofcourse compare a causual player's gear with a hardcore players gear. A hardcore player have spend alot of his free time to obtain them. If a causual player could obtain similar gear, why would anyone care to spend the time required for it?:)
I'd be happy with a system that let a skilled casual player achieve raid level gear with approximately three to five times the time a skilled raider in a good guild would take to get similar equipment. I think being able and willing to work well with other players should be reward by quicker advancement. I'm quite willing to play hard and meet difficult challenges on my own terms, without having to depend on other players' availability and interest, as long as I have the same equipment ceiling, even if I must spend hundreds of hours more than a raider. I would enjoy this -- heck, I enjoyed the 30 hours or so it took me to farm Crusader with my rogue more than the average instance I've participated in.
If you were a raider, and you knew your equipment was about equal to mine, and that I had got mine mostly through five man instances, long quest lines, crafting, etc, but it had taken about 1000 hours of level 60 play to get mine and about 250 hours of level 60 play to get yours, would you feel that situation was unfair?
BTW, it would be more accurate to not link hardcore with raider. I play hardcore hours, and I play with hardcore skill, I just prefer not to raidd due to the aggravations.