when you are fighting someone the SAME LEVEL AS YOU!!!!!
You wouldn't play on any other mmo and expect to beat a max lvl player when you're a noob.
- Put two graduates against each other, one with gear, one without gear and see who lasts longer
- This server is still more or less an RPG, only recently it changed it's direction to an MMO. A decision not yet fully accepted by everyone. If you take a look at the new folks, they see it more as an MMO, older ones like the RPG. (this is a strong generalization though)
- ???
- I believe there's place for other servers to go the MMO route. I joined the server to live my Harry Potter fantasy and attend Hogwars (RPG) not grind dungeons and level gear (MMO).
You are asking for the team to remove something from the game that their update practically revolves around - evidentally "Please just burn all your work!" and also "forget everyone elses time, effort and gold they invested - I DON'T LIKE GEAR"
Just because something took a lot of time, doesn't necesarrily make it good or that it has to be accepted.
Take a look at professions. Lots of dev time spent coding it, lots of player time spent leveling it. Yet it was basically removed in the end. Or potion brewing. Or brooms. Even the whole map was reworked in some way.
Many items were removed or turned into worthless stuff after Revelius.
Remember when MOST of the spells were supposed to be removed and the decision was changed only after the community disagreed ?
Edit: I'm gonna take my comment from a different thread.
If you want to be better at dueling you have to do mob grind, attend classes, etc in order to get better gear. It's stupid. You should get better at dueling by dueling.
You don't get good at cycling by swimming, you get good at cycling by cycling.