Protecting Our Casuals: Gear

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It's good then that Ashes is a pvx game, where each of those tiers of pve will be fought over for in pvp, and whoever was better in pvp can claim the better gear and now be marginally better in the next fight.

And if Intrepid manage to make a balanced pve world, instead of "farm this one boss to literally always be better and stronger", then we'll have situations where several groups of people can ascend through gear tiers through pvp with each other, while also catching up to other people who went up, because there's several ways up. And the way itself is not too long, because the gear power difference between tiers is not that big, so the pvp skill will still matter.

And in the end we'll have a pvx game where you can go through several tiers of pvx gear (be that through farming or through friendship or through moneymaking means) and have yourself a fun pvx time. This was how L2 worked until fucking NCsoft added personal instances and it all went to shit.

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I think you two just have difference views on RPing. I like having one character that is playing the role that I want to play. And I stick to that character and his role for a long time. You seem to like trying out different roles. Both playstyles are RPing in a Game, and both styles are valid. And some games encourage your style (FF14), while other games encourage one character style (L2).