I play on Xbox and I heard that with the new update that you can gear with a score of 515 now. Is Massive planning on pulling that same stunt that Destiny did by raising the max light level. In effect will this make all my 500 level gear that I spent hours maximizing and custimizing worthless? The way the customizing works if one piece of gear is replace your whole set becomes worthless because everything is so tightly coupled. If they are doing that then I quit this game. Why would I want to play a game farming for stuff and spending hours trying to match my play style only to be made worthless later down the road. If they are doing this then they should give us a way to upgrade the gear that we already like and have up to 515 by sacrificing 2 or 3 515 gear that we find.
Higher score gear doesn't always equate to better gear. 99% of loot I'm deconstructing or selling is higher gear score than what I have equipped in my 5 builds. It just means that you'll have better gear/stats to work towards, instead of just farming for 500 gear score loot for eternity.
yep.
To be fair you have to expect level increases in a game like this , id agree its too early too small and so doesnt come across like the yearly power up expanson style increase thats kind of fun and looked forward to just a pointless power crawl to force refarming.
"no one forces you" yeah true , but also not the point , the point is they will , and thats why the power is going up to 515.
to be fair and at the same point to make it worse it was originally planned to be a way to bribe people into the DZ redstorm figure as they cant make it fun in there own words by making it the "only place you can get 515 creep there would finally be a reason to go there"
que what to my mind was a pretty obvious reaction and a hurricane of piss over social media (i may have even contributed)
and in the great tradition of the too close to the trees, the special babies of power creep and the DZ didnt go into the wood chipper as they should of done they doubled down and said "other sources , pve sources will also drop it" but had no details as to what. read into that as you will but to me it sounds like a scramble to make it look like they werent doing what they were.
so we assume the raid will also drop 515 thus very slightl reducing the stupid , now only all the missions , open world , bounties control points and projects are getting obsoleted as we all have to redo either the raid or live with the personality defficient 12 year olds in the DZ.
How a dev team can sped years insuring all the quality content they so carefully crafted would remain viable and be re used in endgame could in a piss poor attempt to bribe people to play something they evidently dont want, set fire to 99% of its content is simply beyond me , but that is amazingly where we are.