Protecting Our Casuals: Gear

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1. Both sides would travel in groups.

2. That's never how that works.

3. Do you auto-define games where time invested isn't as important, as 'worthwhile'?

4. Irrelevant wasn't said, also, skill can absolutely mitigate that, my training partners in certain games play 3-6x as much as me and it's even or in my favor.

Some people expect their time investment to translate into gains in personal skill and then use that.

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Well, honestly, I don't think you'll need to be very concerned. Given what I've seen of their design, both from Alpha-1 and from certain stat things, I'll be really surprised if the gap is that large most of the time.

It could just have meant that 'a naked character is 40-50% weaker than a top geared one', rather than 'Average geared character is.

But if you're in 'the sort of gear a Casual player can get by investment', and facing 'someone below the absolute top gear for their build in all slots', I wouldn't expect a 40% difference between the two players at that point.

And as others point out, if you started at 20% difference between Naked and Epic, then 'Average' vs Epic won't feel like a real difference to most people.