» Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:49 am This week you guys posted picture of the Heavy Armor sets for each faction. They look really nice but my question is. Will TESO slowly turn into a WoW copy releasing Tier gear every 3 months or so?
I just want to throw that out there, since In my opinion playing MMO's since Ultima Online, DAoC, WoW, SWToR, TERA etc... This Tier gear system that WoW cameout with has destroyed to some extent MMO's if not done correctly and I would not like to see TESO fall into the same depressing gaming system of farming Tier Gear and thats all there is to do, till a new dungeon is release with a new Tier.
Now this is not complaining since no one knows what TESO has instore, I just want to throw some constructive criticism on why I think Tier system gear has slowy destroyed MMO's :
In the beginning when wow started there was only 1 set of Tier gear and that lasted for almost 2 years for guilds to farm cause of the large size of guilds and members that where needed to do 40man raids. People started complaining how hard it was to get gear , but I think this was great since it took so long to get a full set and bosses where hard. But eventually this was taken down to 5man and 10man which could be fully geared in a matter of months and content was burn threw really fast!! big mistake on there part.
Now I dont see TESO being a PvE oriented game, since its entire concept is being drawn around three factions fighting for control of Cyrodiil. Thus making this more of a RvR MMO type of game focusing on hardcoe PvP, very similar to DAoC. Which had almost no PvE and no Tier gear system till Trials of Atlantis come out.
I understand trying to tend to the needs of every player, but taking the focus out of what the game is intended to be by implamenting small 5 or 10 man raids on farming tier gear will only destroy the game slowly and draw players away from constantly fighting and defending there borders and keeps in Cyrodiil and only split the community into those who only want to farm Tier Gear aka PvE and does who will go fight for there faction in Cyrodiil. Sure there are players that enjoy both PvE and PvP but sadly the hardcoe PvE players only focuses there time on Raiding and preparing for raid and nothing else.
Considering this, why not bring back the big scale 40man raids with really hard bosses to challenge all those players that over the years have mastered boss mecanics and reward them then with a tier gear equipment, or even crafting recipes to let high level crafters actually craft the best gear in the game. Making crafting a intrical part of the game and necessary. I know some people will say... "Well once we got the recipes, why continue to farm bosses?" Well in order to craft that gear, the matts will only drop from these 40man raid bosses or... be purchase by exclusive merchants to pvp players that have perhaps earned a certain rank and honor points to purchase these matts.
The point is, take the focus away from gear and more into playing the game for what it is. So many times MMO's turn into just trying to get the best gear and showing it off than actually enjoying the game and playing it as it was intended to be played.
Dark Age of Camelot had a Realm rank system that let players purchase stats and better skills as they achieved higher ranks. Making these players much more stronger than lower rank players even tho they would have the same equipment. It also had a website "The Herald" where players where rank overall and by class for there effectiveness, participation, overall honor points earned, and deaths on a weekly and montly bases , for those players that want to brag about being the best players.
Im sure there are many players out there that have great ideas on how to take the focus out of farming gear like a zombie and instead just playing and enjoying the game. Only time will tell what TESO has in stored for us, but I hope its not a farming raiding grid for Tier Gear
