(07-04-2012, 09:56 PM)Roland Wrote: Jester, I get the feeling you don't believe me with regards to player skill versus character gear.
I'm mostly just trying to ascertain what exactly the various complaints are. Because I'm hearing a great deal of "this is all so horribly wrong," but I'm not at all sure people agree on the reasons why.
Nevertheless, there is no such thing as gear strictly trumping skill or vice versa. The two trade off against one another at some rate. If you're saying gear matters too much, and skill too little, that makes sense. From the video, it appears that there is enough gear in the game to faceroll all the bosses at the highest level. I'm glad this is seen as atrocious, but this kind of sick stuff is just the logical development of extremely high gearing in a progress-driven RPG. I can't count the number of games I've played, including Diablo games, where, given an absurd amount of time/effort farming the infinity +1 sword and grinding levels, I couldn't wafflestomp not only the last boss, but the uberbosses.
(Oh, Athene. Always such a pleasure.)
-Jester