AGS’s fear of people reaching 600GS, stalling out end game as much as possible is killing everyone’s drive, it’s stupid and makes me think they don’t really understand how god damn long it really takes to get BIS gear. Getting 600 watermark isn’t even the end game part.
So, I’ve farmed watermark for about 1 to nearly 2 months now and recent times I’ve pretty much finished farming watermark levels, I’ve had in the past 1-2 weeks after reaching 600 gs in all armour and nearly every weapon about 3-4 legendary armour pieces and 3 of them SUCKED really badly, talking strength/focus perks, logging luck, spear perks, you get the gist. I’ve had zero weapon legendaries so far, I’ve had 600 GS weapons but not legendary, this is whilst doing a lot of Genesis/Lazarus (like 25+ this last week and half) and my daily chest runs at Scorched Mines, Myrkard, Sirens and Eternal Pool. I’m a firm believe that if AGS made dungeons free and didn’t even change the loot tables it would take 1 person all the way til next year, talking march, to even get BIS set for 1 mob type, you need to roll a 600, have it be a legendary drop, get the right attributes, 3 good perks and right weight. Now when I say BIS I mean resistance perks are part of the armour sets. So a full BIS corrupted farm set would all consist of +25 Intelligence or Strength for example, Luck perk, Corruption damage resistance and then another perk of your liking and then the right weight, that’s insane for just trying to get the perfect roll for one item, then you need 4 more for a set THEN you need to do that again for angry earth and ancients, perhaps lost too if you’d like. See what I mean? Who cares if you get 600, you still get shit drops all the time, the real end game is after you get 600 trying to get the BIS gear pieces for another 1000 hours.
So if you asked me that would take months upon months to get right? Enough time to make Brimstone sands, add new dungeons and increase the GS cap to 620-640 or whatever they like, making all of that hard earned gear (whilst still good for the previous content and would hold it’s weight) useless and would now need to commence the gear farming to get 620 or 640 BIS, Luck perk, damage resistance perk, w/e perk, +25 attribute of your liking and correct weight again. New crafting levels to make it, everyone is happy and ready to go again.
This whole fear and stalling so people don’t “progress” to 600 quickly is none-sense, getting 600 means nothing, you still have an absurd amount of time to even farm the the correct gear rolls, which is 5/5 and the perks are like 2.6% chance to roll individually according to NWDB. Majority of the community would still be taking forever to get 600 WM even if dungeons were free and arenas and ebonscale/edogrove now become level 66 areas since majority are casuals, if the minority of hardcore grinders are rushing to 600 so be it, they deserve it for no lifing it lol, now they have to no life it again for months to get the best of the best gear then after all of that 620-640 arrives and they’re at it again.
I can’t speak for the PvP community, I haven’t even mentioned trying to get BIS PvP gear but that’s voidbent with resilience but some people (such as myself) prefer double mage perks and what not cause I’m an idiot with money and can’t stand the TP UI and lag to want to make money lol and acquire it myself. So if those like you exist, that’s ANOTHER set to grind for. It’s a bloody grind trying to scan the TP (and it’s now linked!) trying to find a leg piece that’s light so my armour stays at 22.9 weight, has fireball empowered perk damage and something else, hmm maybe I’ll get empowered fireball on my boots instead but now I need to find legs that have unending thaw for the legs that’s light etc, see what I mean lol. Just for the love of god don’t commit to to these scale changes, just focus on expanding content, it’s a massive grind already. Look forward now for future things and stop trying to rewire what you’ve done now, you had years to think of this shit, pissing stick to it, you’re just delaying the future content.