Items And Loot Archive

I recently saw a feller on a swoop with a Proton Carbine, so naturaly I send him a tell asking who made it. He replys with "its a quest item from kyshyykk" So I stop to think about it, then I ask him whats the damage. I find out its ~450 base DPS, which is rather high, he said his modified DPS with a pup is over 850...

850 DPS...now as a rifleman with a decent puped t21 I can get a DPS of 645. With that said I see 2 problems...

1) People who purchase RotW get weapons from quests that can out damage any of the normal craftable weapons, thus giving anyone that is willing to pay money a gaurenteed upper hand in any sort of combat (pve or pvp) making the game dramaticly unbalanced between people who pay and those that dont

2) These weapons are from quests, not crafted and have higher stats then a crafted weapon. People will just do the quest, get the better weapon and there will be no need for weaponsmiths for higher end players, thus hindering the flow of money and demand for weaponsmiths.

I fear that this is just the 1st stage of making this game into a droped-loot-based-game like all the other SOE games, and that I dont want to see.

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