I’ll be honest. I can live with the gear score expertise changes coming in 2022. I can live with a 580 freatax playing like my 540 butt (assuming that it progresses with me until the 580 cap), I can live with that. But the request I want to make is the introduction of gear sets for War. I have a concern that out right marking down gear is going to have a heavy influence on wars. Heck, on my server, the only reason we have more than a single color on the board is because those companies have geared up for wars specifically with 600gs pieces that our top crafters have made.
If this were to strip us all back, there is only one company on the server that has enough OG players who have already reached 600gs to send to wars. If a fully geared out 600gs/expertise company goes up against a mostly under 600gs/expertise company…I think a lot of the war prone servers have the same worry that it means tactics won’t be enough. It’s already pretty common for an MMO to have sets like “Raid Ready” gear that allow lower leveled players to take part in such events. I’m not saying to allow a under 60 level to gear up to a full 600gs/expertise for a war, but 60’s at least I think should be able to no matter their HWM/Expertise.
I think in this manner wars have made their own balance already, through companies making war gear for their fighters. I know that a good portion of our company don’t even use their war gear outside of war because it just doesn’t make sense for them. Like players that gear heavy for war but run medium or light armor for any other situation. I honestly believe that wars need to be kept balance in this way.