Originally Posted by Laura_Everett Originally Posted by

I will reply to each point you made;



The issue with trait points is null and void in my honest opinion; whilst levelling a character up, everything that you "should" have done whilst levelling contributes to trait points, also prior to the trait point system contributed to class traits themselves. All the class character deeds need to be done as before, same with all the class quests, same with the first 6 books of the moria epic, the same with getting kindred with iron garrison guards. All of this, should you have levelled properly, should have been done - the only issue there is, if you use Turbines sham of a cheat valar box and skip that process. Up until lv85, all trait points are acquired on the "old" system. After that, yes, "Unfortunate" to some, you actually have to play ALL the content to get all those trait points - sorry, I see nothing wrong with this? Yes its unfortunate that turbine are forcing players to play all the content to be the best.... Wait.. Sorry, no thats not unfortunate at all. Thats the way it should be.



Yes I admit, the current instances are getting old, but farming thorog every day to complete your legendary items was no different than farming any prior raid for your armour or your jewellry for weeks on end? When I referred to gearing up, I included essences in what I was saying. Because just having the base jewellry with no essences is not gear. And let me bring this to my earlier point of casual players VS full time end-game players; it is quite easy for "casual" players, to get essences, majors and greaters are easily obtainable, and given the content available to casual players who don't necessarily raid, major and greater essences will do fine in order to complete any of the content that they play. For end-game players, yes, they should be made to grind, and so they should; if you dont like RNG, which I don't myself there are a multitude of other options to getting essences, crafting them yourself, and buying them with gold - quite frankly, if you know what you are doing - gold is "Not hard" to obtain, whatsoever, its easy to make a butt load of gold these days, very quickly. So, just buy your essences, problem solved if you don't want to grind.



Coming onto the subject of characters... Anyone who wishes to continue playing 3-4 alts must come to terms with the reality that these characters are not going to be the best geared as they can be. If you don't come to terms with that fact, you are wasting your time. You can continue playing all of your alts if you want, but these alts would have to be casual characters - pick a main and gear it up. Once you have geared it, move on if you want to. So yes, you can still play all of your characters if you want, just gotta accept a few truths. And in my opinion - an "ALT" character, should never be as good geared, or as good as your "MAIN" character; that is why they are called ALTs and MAINs??



I play a runekeeper as my main character, right now she has 3 sets of fully completed legendary items, a stone and bag for all 3 trait trees. Because she is my main character and as an end-game player I have geared her fully. Yes it was a long, grindy, difficult time to get there, but now that I am there I can sit back and relax and enjoy it, until turbine further advance the legendaries - I don't see a problem there at all?



And convincing new players to join the game. In my opinion turbine offers something for everyone. If you are only interested in PvP with little work, there is creep side, if you wish to play as a freep, in PvP commendations will buy you EVERYTHING... You can buy legendary items, you can buy empowerment scrolls, you can buy armour, essences, your jewellry is easily crafted. I again, fail to see the problem here? I would tell my friends to come and play the game, the hard-core players would stick to it and become the best, the casual players would either stop along the way or just be happy with whatever they managed to obtain along the way / at the end.



The only money turbine gets out of me is the £8.99 I pay a month as VIP, and for loads of other players, that is the same. And quite frankly I am more than happy to continue paying because I enjoy the game and find it fun. To the players who are continuously QQing and complaining about the game, and how turbine are making them "work" to be the best, I tell them - they know where the log out buttons and delete character buttons are.



If you want the best, you must work for it. If you are not prepared to work for it, you will not and cannot have the best. It is a very easy choice.



For too long, within the game it has been possible for every player, to have the very best equipment and jewellry, and legendary items, and for an MMO, this is WRONG level 85 to the first year or so of level 100, everyone could easily have the best stuff. Not every player should have the best stuff, only those players who spend a lot of time playing the game, who are very good at the game, or who have spent ALOT of money on the game should have it. This was the case at level 50 with rift, where by only those players who raided rift had the best stuff - and the same was true all the way up to now. Instead of giving us a raid to GRIND they gave us dailies, and quests to GRIND. There is no difference, except perhaps people do not find dailies, quests as enjoyable as raids... But I say again - no one is forcing you to do them..