Gear size as well as the way the gear is held should make sense in the context of race.

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I'd expect rare items to be... rare. If for some dumb reason they are not rare, than what's the fucking point of calling them that.

The fact that this item "dropped" during the showcase means nothing, because it was placed into that mob for this showcase.

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And like I said, we have no info on how this item is obtained normally. You might need a ton of magical materials to craft it. Or you might have to take a quest from a magical dude to get those mats. Or any other number of magical reasonings in a magical world of magic.

And we haven't seen how this hammer would look on other races, as I've said before. It might be even bigger in the hands of a dwarf or an orc.

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And you didn't get my point. A rare item should be rare across the entire server. This is not an instanced mmo, where literally the entire playerbase is grinding the same dungeon 24/7 and drops "rare" items like apples from a tree.

There might be 10 mobs that give you mats for that hammer and the chance of those mats is smth like 0.5% or smth. And there's constant pvp for those mobs, because this rare hammer is good for its lvl or has the best phys pen in its type.

This would mean that barely anyone on the server would have this RARE item within any reasonable amount of time. This is what I want when it comes to rare items.

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And it does look like a plain low-mid lvl item. This is not a realistic medieval rpg, so even lower lvl gear will look a bit more fancy than what we had in our history. The hammer didn't have any effects on it, it didn't have super intricate patterns or even a complex build, and it didn't have some unique coloring. To me, all of those things make it a proper low-mid lvl RARE item.

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WoW is an instanced mess, so no, let's not say they're classic wow rare.

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To you it does, to me it doesn't

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And by any chance, have you played or seen footage from WoW's alpha? Did it all remain the exact same until release? Did every item that they claimed was "low lvl" remain low lvl? Or was it, by chance, all just placeholder until they started balancing it all out and moving stuff around? You're comparing a game in alpha against a released product (though you're currently comparing it to a rereleased product, but that's beside the point).

But even outside of that, we don't know what kind of gear we'll have on the first lvls and what we'll have at max lvls. We also don't know if whatever we're seeing now will even remain at the same lvl or remain at all. And on top of all of that, it's still just your opinion against devs and Steven. In case it does stay the way it is now and in the same lvl range - that's gonna represent Steven's vision for his game, and I'd assume that all the gear higher and lower of that range will look appropriate.