Adding the Planes of Power in to the original trilogy

[Shadey]

Originally Posted by Kika Maslyaka [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

well, with fully NTOV and ST geared raid, specially some of that amazing gear dropping off Boss of NTOV - Vulak`Aerr - you CAN do PoP tiers 1-3 - my guild did them on live

but you will NEVER make it past RZ without Ssra/VT gear

Aye. I was thinking past the beginning easy mobs. should have specified. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Still the point is skipping some content is fine sure. Skipping an entire expac will not work unless you dumb things down.

I knew of a few guilds that skipped VT entirely and just farmed SSRA and zone bosses and then moved to PoP. Now i'm not saying leave VT out as they did have a hard time of it a bit till they got more of the new PoP gear farmed from the lower tiers. VT is a great zone.

[falkun]

Originally Posted by Shadey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Aye. I was thinking past the beginning easy mobs. should have specified. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Still the point is skipping some content is fine sure. Skipping an entire expac will not work unless you dumb things down.

I knew of a few guilds that skipped VT entirely and just farmed SSRA and zone bosses and then moved to PoP. Now i'm not saying leave VT out as they did have a hard time of it a bit till they got more of the new PoP gear farmed from the lower tiers. VT is a great zone.

You can skip from Velious to PoP. If guilds get decked out in max Velious gear prior to PoP, they will stomp on the first 2 tiers. Then they will settle into Tier3 for a while gearing up on ornate patterns before making the push into T4 (Elemental planes). A gear block is almost a good thing, hell, take a look at the velious armor tiers. Most guilds will generally start out on the inferior dwarf armor before moving to dragon and finally to giant (I think that's the right order). Now the top guilds might have the gear to be able to skip the dwarf tier, but they will have to decide between the giant and dragon armors. This will be a good thing as not everyone will be fighting for the same raid content (which isn't instanced). This gear discrepancy will filter guilds to different bosses.