Items And Loot Archive
Thread: Why Bother with all this Nice Pretty Loot?
Well think about it, are you going to go out & get a set of Clone armor & a nice Kinetic Reward rifle, that have no better stats than a Crafted set of Comp armor & a Tuskan Rifle?
Other than just looking nice, they have no practical use, My Comp will absorbe more damage than yours & My Tuskan Rifle will deal out more damage. Taking the effort to get all this new stuff whan a crafted peice is better is defeating the Purpose.
The Whole idea "in Every MMORPG", is to Get better equipment by Killinga Boss critter & looting him for a slight advantage. Take away the effect of a reward & all you have if a Showpony with no realpractical value.
Same goes for GKD Loots, Crystals etc. They cant max a wep or armor above the Stat Caps for weps & armor, so Anyone who puts something togeather with good resources & gets a wep to its Maximum Limits, placing a GKD Pearl in it won't boost it any furthr at all. It just becomes a name "Kryat T21", with the same stats as a normal T21.....2.4Million..heheh
Can you see the point i'm trying to make here? Loot rewrds Just Are'nt Worth the efort to collect.
Mind you, Some of the Decor Loots are Quite nice & worth the effort of Obtaining though, I will admitt to that.
BobaFettish wrote:Well think about it, are you going to go out & get a set of Clone armor & a nice Kinetic Reward rifle, that have no better stats than a Crafted set of Comp armor & a Tuskan Rifle?
Other than just looking nice, they have no practical use, My Comp will absorbe more damage than yours & My Tuskan Rifle will deal out more damage. Taking the effort to get all this new stuff whan a crafted peice is better is defeating the Purpose.
The Whole idea "in Every MMORPG", is to Get better equipment by Killing a Boss critter & looting him for a slight advantage. Take away the effect of a reward & all you have if a Showpony with no real practical value.
Same goes for GKD Loots, Crystals etc. They cant max a wep or armor above the Stat Caps for weps & armor, so Anyone who puts something togeather with good resources & gets a wep to its Maximum Limits, placing a GKD Pearl in it won't boost it any furthr at all. It just becomes a name "Kryat T21", with the same stats as a normal T21.....2.4Million..heheh
Can you see the point i'm trying to make here? Loot rewrds Just Are'nt Worth the efort to collect.
Mind you, Some of the Decor Loots are Quite nice & worth the effort of Obtaining though, I will admitt to that.
GDK "Pearl" in a T-21? LMAO!! Are you an E-Bay account?
Get a clue, the Crafting community was gutted in this "Balance". Loot weapons are dropping with better stats than can be crafted with post-CU comps and there are NO schematics for most of them. My friend looted a Pike with 60m range yesterday.. go ask a WS for one, or a Proton, or Exploding shell, or ANY of the new worthwhile weapons.
You PHAT LEWT types got it all with this new game. The crafter based economy got shafted and it's all drops and loots now, thanks. Sorry that none of them are giving you the "I WIN" button you seem to be craving, but thats the breaks I guess.
BobaFettish wrote:
There is no Challenge in a PvP game where everyone is eventuallym, exactly the same.
You are Missing the Point.
They have taken all the individuality out of the game by Making everyone Exactly equel, after they have obtained MAX't out Gear.
Wits you say....'Yeah Right".
"Points to the sky"...And says..."Ohhh Look theres an Eagle"....., Hope the other player Falls for it as you go to Kick him in the Codds.
There are no Wits in this game, PvP is pretty Full on once you start a fight & Only "ONLY" your equipment is going to Save or fail you"....And if by Wits you mean, Some guy challenges you, you Quickly run off to collect a gank squad... Well yeah i spose that "Could" be considered using your wits.
The way i see it, having 100's of "Identical" Maxed out characters running about, one of two things will happen.
1. SWG PvP becomes a stailmate
2. It becomes a Twitch Based Frag Fest.
The Devs & Those Monkeys who Wrote the Code for the CU Didn't have the Forsight to Keep Players Individuals & not just Exact Clones of each other.
Ok, so your gear is exactly the same. That makes you rely on your tatics. Who will win? The guy spamming his best special? Or the guy who plans out his attacks and carefully hits states and such?
BobaFettish wrote:
You are Missing the Point.
They have taken all the individuality out of the game by Making everyone Exactly equel, after they have obtained MAX't out Gear.
Wits you say....'Yeah Right".
"Points to the sky"...And says..."Ohhh Look theres an Eagle"....., Hope the other player Falls for it as you go to Kick him in the Codds.
There are no Wits in this game, PvP is pretty Full on once you start a fight & Only "ONLY" your equipment is going to Save or fail you"....And if by Wits you mean, Some guy challenges you, you Quickly run off to collect a gank squad... Well yeah i spose that "Could" be considered using your wits.
The way i see it, having 100's of "Identical" Maxed out characters running about, one of two things will happen.
1. SWG PvP becomes a stailmate
2. It becomes a Twitch Based Frag Fest.
The Devs & Those Monkeys who Wrote the Code for the CU Didn't have the Forsight to Keep Players Individuals & not just Exact Clones of each other.
I Think that You are Missing the Point of Your Own Topic (there... did that follow your rules of CapItaliZation?)
You asked us why we bother gathering new loot, when there's equally good crafted materials already out there. You did *not* ask us why the new systemdumbed down the old system. You did *not* ask us to compare new loot weapons with old, pre-CU Legendary-Krayt-Pearl-UberDot weapons in their Legendary-Krayt-Pearl-UberDot-allowing system. You asked:
BobaFettish wrote:
Just wondering, cause other than Looks, Its pertty much the same as any Crafted Peice of armor or weapon.
Or roughly translated: "Why wear fancy new armor when it's pretty much the same as the oldcrafted stuff you could buy weeks ago?" Which begs the inverse question "Why wear the same old armor when there's interesting new stuff that's just as good?"
"I-Win"-button uberloot is dead, my friend. All there is now is personal preference and self-expression. Ok, and maybe tactics, strategy and teamwork. There's that too, I suppose.
-Zz
Message Edited by Bzzzz on 05-10-2005 10:54 PM
BobaFettish wrote:
You are Missing the Point.
They have taken all the individuality out of the game by Making everyone Exactly equel, after they have obtained MAX't out Gear.
Wits you say....'Yeah Right".
"Points to the sky"...And says..."Ohhh Look theres an Eagle"....., Hope the other player Falls for it as you go to Kick him in the Codds.
There are no Wits in this game, PvP is pretty Full on once you start a fight & Only "ONLY" your equipment is going to Save or fail you"....And if by Wits you mean, Some guy challenges you, you Quickly run off to collect a gank squad... Well yeah i spose that "Could" be considered using your wits.
The way i see it, having 100's of "Identical" Maxed out characters running about, one of two things will happen.
1. SWG PvP becomes a stailmate
2. It becomes a Twitch Based Frag Fest.
The Devs & Those Monkeys who Wrote the Code for the CU Didn't have the Forsight to Keep Players Individuals & not just Exact Clones of each other.
I'm seeing more individuality now than before the CU. Don't you remember when EVERYONE was wearing Composite armor before? I think they are going in the right direction with armor classes, hopefully they expand upon it and add more types, but definitely on the right track. And that "PHAT L3WT" isn't going to be much of a problem. All of the quest items are a one time deal. At the rate armor decays that new Clone armor won't be around very long, weapons of course will take longer (unless you don't insure or get rez'd) to decay, but the point is once those items are gone, they are gone. So I don't think we're going to be seeing carbon copies here, every combat class has it's advantages and disadvantages, PvP won't just go away, or become a stalemate. Just because both players have 1337 weapons and armor, it doesn't guarantee a victory, you still have to be smart and make the right choices to win.