Maybe, but isn't that kind of the point of an MMORPG? You acquire stuff that's useful for a time, and then new stuff comes out that you try to acquire instead.
Wont all current high end gear become useless? Inflation on the horizon? Maybe even a mirror market will arrise: Two seprate economics bewteen 1-75 gear and 75-99 gear? Im afraid so.
Unfortunately, I've no time to find the article I read this in right now--but in an interview at VanaFest, they made it sound like the new Magian system was going to be for this exact purpose. That is, to modify the armor and weapons you already have via these quests to get boosts. That's the impression I got from it, at least. We'll have to wait and see.
The only way I could see it working well with equipment and stuff is for the magians quest to add some kind of scaling bonuses to your armour, similar to the COP rings where they went from their 75 stats to 99 ones. Otherwise - people are going to be thinking what's the point to salvage etc (my salvage group's actually broken over this very reason - yet another reason I'm pretty annoyed about the whole update) if their 14 million body pieces are suddenly rendered as nothing more than a mid-level exp gear. The problem with just upgrading armour is that people won't have all their jobs at 99 all of a sudden - if you allow people to create haidate +1s for their 99WAR, what are they going to wear exping their 75BST up to the new cap? Hence my theory for the scaling armour - which would no doubt be tied to some horrifically arkward quest requiring an arm, leg and freshly boiled tarutaru
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The items bit was the only huge thing I've been curious about. I've put a lot of time into getting good non end-game 75 gear but as to whether that'll now be mid-tier or still rendered as high level but able to be enhanced for levels past 75, is something that makes me wonder.
The rest seems nice but I rarely play other jobs so not really affected directly per se. It'll be an interesting ride for sure.
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Maybe, but isn't that kind of the point of an MMORPG? You acquire stuff that's useful for a time, and then new stuff comes out that you try to acquire instead.
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Unfortunately, I've no time to find the article I read this in right now--but in an interview at VanaFest, they made it sound like the new Magian system was going to be for this exact purpose. That is, to modify the armor and weapons you already have via these quests to get boosts. That's the impression I got from it, at least. We'll have to wait and see.
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The rest seems nice but I rarely play other jobs so not really affected directly per se. It'll be an interesting ride for sure.
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