New combo set

[elraido]

After seeing how they implemented the new raid gear, I am a little disappointed. It just seems like more and more power creep. I think they could have had the oppertunity to introduce some cool new sets. Just off the top of my head, it would have been interesting to see a sword and shield raid loot combo. When held together they give off a special effect (say the lighting strike ability on a 20 as charged gauntlets) and DR. Something like that. Or a fire and ice twin weapon fighting combo....where if held together, they create a steam effect like a greensteel. Instead we get more and more grinding for ingrediants to craft.

[dkyle]

They're not that much better than GS, in terms of DPS, and it's been over 3 and a half years. There's going to be power creep in MMOs; that's to be expected. The question is how much, and how fast. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

As for your ideas? A sword+shield would have to be stupendously powerful to not be a waste of Dev time. The TWF idea is OK, I guess. But I can't say that I'm a huge fan of item sets, in general. They tend to reduce our options for gear. I like being able to choose between many mixes and matches.

[elraido]

They're not that much better than GS, in terms of DPS, and it's been over 3 and a half years. There's going to be power creep in MMOs; that's to be expected. The question is how much, and how fast. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

As for your ideas? A sword+shield would have to be stupendously powerful to not be a waste of Dev time. The TWF idea is OK, I guess. But I can't say that I'm a huge fan of item sets, in general. They tend to reduce our options for gear. I like being able to choose between many mixes and matches.

I was like that at first. Sets limit the ability to equip your toon the way you want. But if they actually made more sets or put things on different places, it would give more flexiblity. On my main, I basically am out of spots to put anything. They should give people the ability to make anchoring items on something other than boots. It is just a waste. No one will makegreen steel boots, because they can't use them in ToD. I mean they could even have them drop random items out of ToD as raid loot in there. Gloves of anchoring, helm of anchoring. Etc. Instead of concentrating on new DPS items, give people the flexability in gear that they should be able to have.