60+ drops

[Horinia]

I thought about posting this in the Outspark forums, but it seems no matter how many times this issues is brought up it always get swept under the rug there.

My issue and/or concern is with the equipment drops for levels 60 and above. At this time, to my knowledge, only a few green level 60 shields have been found to date in Land of Trials, the 60-69 dungeon. Since the patch in December, raising the level cap to 79, not a single green stated item has been found on any of the servers. The aforementioned shields were statless by the way.

I did get a chance to ask GM Snakeeyes in Uruga about this, and he assured me that these items were in the game, just really rare. I took him for his word, as I had no reason to doubt his knowledge about the game mechanics at the time. However since then the great Burning Rock incident occurred, and based off the general reaction and responses from the GM's it seemed thier percieved knowledge about the game may not be as clear as they project it to be.

Now I am concerned. This of course is my own opinion but in most MMO's, there are really only two main ways of character advancement. The first is leveling. Now this has of course its own gripe section from anyone above 60, but I am ok with having to spend some serious keyboard pounding for a week to get a level. To me that makes the level more rewarding.

The second method of advancement is of course with gear. During my 50's I seriously enjoyed the anticipation of seeing what what kind of stats that item that just dropped for me had. Or being pleasently surprised to get one on a clear through BoD on my way to finish quests. The aspect of green gear aquisition actually made those levels fun and exciting, even during tedious quests. It added a layer of intrest to me besides "kill mob, get exp, kill mob, get exp, kill mob, get exp".

Now I am at my high 60's approaching 70 very soon. And I must say, it is very hard to spend 5-6 hours in LoT only to get the very rare 50 level gear drop. I have killed the boss at least 35 times now, with Hunters war rant on, and only have mats to show from him. Now I know there are a few 60+ items in the game, but they are accessories such as rings and necks, and they are pretty easy to get. I have killed Ghost knight so many times as to have 3, level 75 rings drop and as of today a lic for him.

But accesories are something for everyone, nowhere are the class specific gear drops like we are used too. Without the potential for the higher level players to advance thier character with both ways, levels and gear, I fear the grind from 70-79 may just be too much for them. I know its been too much for some to even get from 60-69 as it is. At least the gear gives us some feeling of moving forward.

I simply cant sit back anymore and listen to the GM's try to tell us that there is nothing broken when it is pretty obvious something is wrong. Are they trying to tell us that Blue items are more common to the game then 60+ green ones? Many of us have seen these on every server. These people that are saying the game is functioning properly are the same ones that, even though they had bug reports about the BR quests, told us they did not know that there was any problems.

Yes the game can be played fine without these items. No the world wont come to a crashing halt if they arent added. All I am saying is, it would make the game so much more fun to have something else to look forward to, to have something to make the 8 million exp needed to level go by just a little bit smoother.

Please, although I pretty much know what response this will get, GM's look into this issue. I know something is amiss and Im not the only one who feels this way.

Thanks for the read and time if you had the patience to get through this.