Originally posted by Puremallace

Originally posted by Torvaldr

Laethys is going to be epic.  1.8 has some fun stuff in it and still at no extra charge beyond the sub fee.

1.8 is actually kind of depressing to be honest as a fan of this game for so long. The gear requirement gating is literally getting ridiculous.

 

The main thing that separated this game from WoW was the ability to gear for raids outside of being forced into instanced content. Right now they are starting to fail and it is going to accelerate bad in 1.8. The gear gating on ID is utterly ridiculous and maybe 10% of the population is geared enough even enter.

 

When a majority of your playerbase has not cleared the current raid after 8+ months you are failing as a dev in my opinion. My sub money is going towards a very small part of the playerbase and I am starting to get tired of it.

 

So what you're saying is that you haven't joined a guild capable of clearing HK yet and as such, Trion fails?  My guild went 8/11 in one month.  We had GSB/RoS on farm, and just went in there.  There is absolutely no reason, between the T1 raid gear and the crafted gear that you can not have most, if not all of HK on farm at this point.  The fights have been super nerfed since it came out.  Don't blame Trion because you haven't bothered to clear the content.

Originally posted by Asaomar

So what you're saying is that you haven't joined a guild capable of clearing HK yet and as such, Trion fails?  My guild went 8/11 in one month.  We had GSB/RoS on farm, and just went in there.  There is absolutely no reason, between the T1 raid gear and the crafted gear that you can not have most, if not all of HK on farm at this point.  The fights have been super nerfed since it came out.  Don't blame Trion because you haven't bothered to clear the content.

My big issue right now is in my head one MAJOR and I mean MAJOR MAJOR difference between WoW, Rift, and TOR is the way to get gear. Rift has the advantage of meaningful open world content that allows you to get meaningful gear doing open world content.

So even 7 years from now if they progress the system correctly I will still want to go do a Stillmoor raid that rewards Inscrbed that allows me to get raid gear and earn it.

Nice tale. Rift is getting more and more interesting mmo. It mix of old and some new featurs are good enough to appeal to veterans and newcomers. Trion did one smart thing: they seen how things work and things that dont work, and developed the game accordingly to those measures. Nice work guys, keep it up.