Nefarian78 wrote:But at the same time i'd like to play the game too without being forced to always play in a premade in order to make progress toward getting a new piece of gear or to simply have FUN playing the game.
nobody denies you that, but your gear progression will be slower. so join a pug. I do the same if I have spare time and guildwise nothing is going on. Nobody is locked out from enjoying the endgame content. I saw that in many other mmorpgs.
As I wrote in the beginning of the Thread I play sc pug as an example, and sometimes even wb in the evening / afternoon.
unlike in other mmorpg games, gear progression is here really fast. you ding 40. you can equip ruin (it's farmed pug in max 2 days), one of the best sets for tanks, at least place 5 for
every other class in the game. you follow a pug, you get officer medals en masse, after aprox. 5-15 hours ingame you get the 2nd best gear there is. you ding 40 and can go beastlord, instant, almost no gear requirement. if you want to go safe, the whole group should have ruin / merc, but the BLs are not that gear intensive. you can spam scenarios for merc. you can buy off the AH boots + hands and only need 3 pieces, you can farm one piece in 8 hours if you slack around. so what is left? 2 uberendgame sets, from which is one mediocre at it's best for many classes. dom. even that you can farm it with playing half ass mode scenario, you don't run into the evil premade groups (which I've seen failing at both ends, destro and order, losing sc's vs pug) if you queue pug scenario.
so you can only speak of conq. cause this set has the slowest gear progression. if you don't have the time to farm it, than don't farm it, it's an unachievable personal goal and your goal is too high. yes it takes a lot of effort, yes, if you want to do it time efficient you should play in a premade / or in a guild warband. don't set your goals too high and enjoy the game. that goes for every mmorpg, because every mmorpg tries to serve to some degree a specific audience. you are part of the audience ofc, but the content there is at some point is basically unreachable for you. and even if you want it to pull it out of bags, you need to be early in the zone, continuesly contributing and that until the end. so EU primetime on average if no side gets dominated: 5-6 hours.
I don't see myself as an elitist player. you never see me run in 6 mans with my tank, only guild warbands (so primetime player). sometimes if I'm really bored on my healer roaming 6 man because it is fun, and even that, most of the times without comms. (really rare, and only if zone was fast done). And when we did it, we never went for the glorious 2-2-2 setup.
I never got a better bag than blue on him.
BUT.. I can invest a lot of hours daily in that game (atm. 6+ at least) for my main (playing zone on primetime, and every 2nd or 3rd day a zone in the afternoon if I got time[pug]). so I compensate my effiency by investing more time.
so. if you want conq: bring effiency or time, or both, and you will get it. If you lacking both it's a long term goal. and it should be okay, cause everybody should have a long term goal in this game, not just you, and not just me, and not just hardcore players. At some point you will get it if you keep playing, there is the token mechanic, and that gurantees it for everybody who keeps playing on the long run. it's a carrot on the stick and the frosting on the cake simultaneously.
Even though, if you have checked the newest patchnotes, there is a spreadsheet which teasers new gear sets which are under conq / dom but above or same level as annihilator. "Onslaught Set".
I know, this post will again have no impact, because people will cry for giefconqnaoh. but at least I tried.
I know Onslaught will not be good enough, everybody needs the best, now, everybody drives a porsche, and every porsche driver had 0 effort in getting one and never worked a day in there life, that's how life works ofc.
