strongly agree. maybe not totally remove, but 1/10th the price sounds good.
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Yup, I don’t buy Faction gear because it is not good enough to justify the price. I think the price was valued back when they thought the economy for gear would not crash and burn. Aside from abusing the fact Resilience is bugged there is just no reason to purchase.
Faction gear is actually the best for PvP with the exception of Voidbent which is only marginally better… 
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At this moment it’s worth it because of the bugged resilience perk, assuming you can’t easily find good armor with appropriate stats and the resilience perk for less gold somewhere else. If you can, though, then there is no point in buying faction armor indeed. The gold cost is just too high.
In regards to the bug, it’s been there since the alphas, so it’s probably bugtended or otherwise an ignored issue. It is unlikely to be fixed for at least another year or more.
Faction gear is great. But the gold cost makes buying the 53 (?) stuff pointless and just hold out till 60.
It’s better in pvp cuz the tooltip is bugged and remove ALL DMG types not just crit lol
It’s still better. xD
I also agree.
It should be one or the other, not both. That being said, I think gear costs should require more tokens than they do as it’s quite a significant leap in quality from the high 200’s to low 300’s that you have at 25, and then jump to mid/upper 300’s with faction tokens by mid 25 to 26.
Already have a topic with the same title with Community Manager acknowledgement and everything else:
I disagree. In general crafted gear gets higher. Buy from a crafter, support the in game economy.
Most crafted gear is substantially worse than the faction gear and the pieces that are better than faction gear will cost 5x the gold.
Faction gear can’t get up to quality level 600.
The faction gear caps out at 530ish.
The bonus is wirh faction gear you grt to have the perk that’s pre selected and rhd stats you want via changes the stats. If it doesn’t come in the perks you want. Though you can do the same thing with crafted legendary gear. If faction gear doesn’t have the perk you want you’re out of luck.
However crafted gear goes up to 600. You can pick one of the perks, or the stats. However, having higher quality also effects the defensive and offense properties, ie a sword of quality 600 will have a base damage output higher(not including perks) than a weapon with a quality score of 530.
That means weapons deal more damage and armor has more absorption if it’s a higher quality score.
Heck ay 170 armor crafting I can make items on par with 530. At 200, way better.
Crafted gear is better.
Faction gear only goes up to 520. Anything crafted higher then this is better lol. faction gear isnt that good with it’s low AF gear score.
Even the crap items like potions and ammo costs stupid amounts of gold compared to simply making it yourself.
If the gold cost would still make it profitable to complete a Town Board mission (e.g. mission to get certain potions), that would make it more acceptable.
they miscalculated the whole economy outcome.
- gold cost of faction items
- property tax
- treasure chest drop (in before it was disabled due to fishing bots) vs item value in trade posts
- material conversion crafting fee is 10× what you can buy for the material from players
all in-game items that cost gold predicted a general economical outcome and with that the value of in-game currency.
It is even hard to write it down without the fear of a forum ban, but lets call out that the king is naked: Amazon failed to set up the game’s trading layer 
Objectively wrong. Faction heavy gear atm is almost BiS gear because voidbent is unattainable to 99% of the population. Good luck finding ANY gear with the combination of perks that the faction gear has on the auction house. Resilient, Refreshing, guaranteed gear slot, and full heavy with full onyx gems is literally BiS outside of the voidbent (and even then voidbent is only nominally better) the actual gear score means nothing.
Gear score = higher numbers on the stat and perk rolls. That’s it. There’s no point in having the higher number when 99% of the perks are awful, and if you DO find a piece that has better numbers AND better perks, as I said, it’ll sell for 5x the price on the trading post.
You don’t need voidbent to make 600 quality items from crafting. You can make them with oricalchum. Gotta do your research. The voidbent is better. But not the only eay to get 600.
You get the perks that you get with faction gear. Ya. But you loose base damage or absorption which will more than make up for the perk.
Faction Heavy + Cut Pristine Onyx is BiS due to the bugged Resilience perk affecting all damage and Cut Pristine Onyx also affecting all damage (instead of the tooltip’s Physical only).
This exploit meta is absolute shit
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