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Originally Posted by Halfcell
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Well, I mean you could make the same case for classic to kunark though. The difference between a character in full PoHate gear even you leveled him to 60, and a character in full Kunark BiS is extreme. It is the nature of expansions to make your character better through new gear.
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Well I beg to differ, gear in classic and fear/hate were regularlly raided during kunark for end game players, if you look at warrior bis in kunark at leastg 3 items are pre kunark, while if you look at bis warrior velious 0 are. And that's an almost unfair take because they wear pure AC and that is the one stat kunark bumped with class armor, so thats with a full set of colbot, if you want stats, you're going to be wearing 3-5 more peaces of classic blazing ro or hate armor. I mean just look at the monk linked above, its wearing like 90% classic gearz.
Which brings me to my next nerdy point...
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Originally Posted by zodium
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I like the part where you handwave adding 10 levels to literally everyone away as less significant to power creep than a particular class of top-end Velious gear that most people will never see.
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The difference between levels and gear is that levels do not make entire zones irrelevant, if you still need the gear from those zones, then you still need to go back to get it, even if you're high level. High level farming is what EQ is virtually all about next to raiding for end game players.
After velious almost 90-100% of classic itemization that is not a rechargable click, is virtually useless.
when you jump the HPs up from +10 to +25, its not unrealistic that a raider would still wear the +10 HP item, but if you jump them from +25 to +100, a raider would be a trash can if they were wearing the +10 item.
levels =/= gearing in terms of devaluing older expansions. Levels will trivialize older content but gear can make it outright irrelevant.
That siad I think Kunark was also a bit too powerful (just not as over powered as velious was) If it were up to me, Kunark would be a level 55 expansion that would have made it perfection, and velious would be the level 60 one.