Why the (gear) grind?

[Dana]

- Increased drop rates of all NPCs
- Added Gear Vendors till level 20

U mean old changes or its something new?

The ones with T2 patch.

[Doomsday]

Ok, im understand. So, gear what vendor have really bad ro most of classes. For example - mara's shoulders without str. And they not sellin jewerly with mainstats. Thes items ppl must farm or buy at AH for good gameplay. I think drop rates still really too low. Aza says 2/0.01/0.005. Its even no comments. That's why prises at AH to high.
Part of promlem we can solve by releasing rvr set and wearpon for 20/19rr. And im hope it will be soon.
Or add woe/rs gear for vendor and sell it for medallions. let it be 100 med for 1 item woe, but ppl will goes to rvr to get this items.
Just my opinion.

[Morf]

About vendor stuff im sure i remember there being level 13 and 18 jewels u could buy from vendors that were main stat focused like str/ws, str/wounds, tough/wounds etc possibly introduced with the rr100 patch. Are these not in the database ? could help reduce the need to mob grind.

[Coryphaus]

Dude are you talking about mara’s conquest shoulders?

Ok, im understand. So, gear what vendor have really bad ro most of classes. For example - mara's shoulders without str.

Are you kidding me dude? Those are THE BEST mara sholders atm because it has the same armor value as clamit gear but it gives you the stat that you desperately need on mara: toughness

You don’t need to stack str on mara because brute force + corrupted edge + ferocious assault lets you insta soft cp str at 555 using my set up http://www.returnofreckoning.com/armory ... me=Kormack

Seriously there is no need to stack str on mara atm, you need to stack toughness for survivability and ws, go for conquest chest and shoulders

[Doomsday]

Im using subvert strenth + jagged edge, because edge gaves you more damage, when 80 str. But it not what im want to say about that shoulders. We need more different gear for different specs.

[Coryphaus]

Fair enough, sorry we couldn't test specs I was trying a new spec with full sav with edge + warped flesh/tzeetch warding and I didn't have money to respec if we can try some time later
But down the line thier are reall only 1, maybe 2 viable specs for mara

[Libra]

Because.

[Aquilon]

Because.

Rrright.

But drastically increasing drop rate from players can do the trick too, I think.

I did, for Open RvR. There are just checks on it to stop people from going into the lakes and farming alts.

Player drop rate in SCs is always 5%.

Is it possible to increase rvr-drop even more?

[Coryphaus]

Is the drop rates in SC’s similar to the drop rate in RvR?

[geraldtarrant]

no need for gear grind!
stop this madness!
go pvp and get loot there