115204-itemization-changes-ftw-tier-zero-class-sets

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I know that there are many game suggestions for the Devs, but I have a doozie! I have put my suggestion together in a polite post with many of those details you like so much in the format you stated.
 
 I remember playing Vanilla WOW running Upper Black Rock Spire 20+ times and loving it because I was chasing down my Devout healing set gear. The tier zero gear upgrades in dungeons were SO good and looked so cool when put together that EVERYONE had to have their Tier zero gear. It made you STRONG and looked great. We are missing that motivation in your dungeons.
 
Since you Wildstar Dev's just happen to be overhauling itemization over the next few drops why not implement a carrot for us: make a tier zero complete set of class gear spread out for each class over all the dungeons. Dungeon gear right now is quite poor. With this idea in place it would motivate people to actually run your long time consuming dungeons.
 
Just make all the tier pieces look AWESOME, and make them VERY STRONG stat-wise with good set bonuses. This way a casual player with full Tier Zero would be strong enough to roll in GA providing they took the time to farm dungeons for the set. Skilled players could still roll in GA in crafted as they do now and do fine.
 
This provides: Gear to chase after, players that actually want to run your dungeons instead of never setting foot in one after attunement, more chances for players to make lasting friendships in dungeons and it gives players an AWESOME LOOKING POWERFUL gear set to stand around in Thayd looking awesome and showing off.
 
There was also your class weapon! I remember to get my Benediction/Anathema priest class weapon I had to collect components from various dungeons to build it, then I had to go through a solo challenge to complete it. This was downright EPIC and the weapon looked AWESOME and had insane stats. Please do this!
 
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TIER ZERO CLASS SET GEAR DETAILS;
 
If Carbine figured out how litemization works and made Tier Zero dungeon sets it would be a massive boost to dungeon play and friends playing. If you don't like or want to go chasing the set, then you don't have to. 
 
The proposed Tier Zero Set would:
 
- Be class specific
 
- Each dungeon end boss would have a chance to drop 1-2 different set items. i.e. Stormtalon could drop shoulder and/or gloves
 
- The gear would have excellent stats, better than the best gear available outside of GA, yet not quite as good as GA dropped gear
 
- The gear would have 3, 6 and 9 piece set bonuses. The set bonus for 3 piece would be pure main stat boost. 6 piece bonus would be a mid-level boost like dash regen. 9 piece bonus would be a very very nice damage proc or healing proc
 
- The gear should look very unique and stand out in a crowd. It should look awesome as heck and each class should have their own designed outfit.
 
Tier Zero Class Weapon:
 
- Finally there would be a class-specific named Tier zero weapon. This weapon would have 3 pieces: 2 of which are found in dungeons. The 3rd piece would be a drop in GA from Kuralak. 
 
- The 3rd piece would be 100% drop rate on Kuralak, so 20 runs to gear 20 people would keep it rare enough and special enough that standing around Thayd would keep you looking like a pimp
 
- Weapon has a final challenge quest before final assembly of this strange Eldon technological weapon to make sure you are worthy of its power. Something similar to Pyroloss would be good, something solo!
 
- Weapon stats would be awesome equivelant to GA level weapon with class specific proc.
 
DEVS: Thanks For listening to my idea! I tried to keep it detailed and polite for you!	
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Remember cosmetics are separate from stats in WS in as much as most of the cool costumes don't really have stats.  I am happy with the system as it is right now.  I don't want to play WoW in WS.  I do that gear chase in WoW.
 
I understand why you would like this but, I don't want to do that here in THIS game.  I am sure there may be others that feel the same.
 
Perhaps retool your idea with "costumes" in mind so that it's not tied to a specific "part of the game" -OR- item power level and it may be more popular for everyone. ;)	
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Please note this is a gear change / itemization suggestion and NOT a content suggestion towards WOW. There are many things WOW got right on itemization. At the core of my suggestion is basically improved dungeon gear rewards that make you want to get get a set to complete it. The change technically has nothing to do with WOW other than stealing the idea of having a class tier set for dungeons.
 
As for appearance, even though appearance can be changed, if the gear looks good enough on its own then sometimes there is no need to change it's appearance. I wear some gear without costume because it looks great.	
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			And I am not looking forward to a gear grind a la WoW in this game and all the "rage quit" that comes with it.	
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And I am not looking forward to a gear grind a la WoW in this game and all the "rage quit" that comes with it.
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Do you really want to engage in "LFR/LFG" peeps that are greeding on roles for "grear" if said gear is necessary to progress?
 
I could do with a game that doesn't have that "hiden mini-game". <_<	
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Do you really want to engage in "LFR/LFG" peeps that are greeding on roles for "grear" if said gear is necessary to progress?
 
I could do with a game that doesn't have that "hiden mini-game". <_<
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Do you really want to engage in "LFR/LFG" peeps that are greeding on roles for "grear" if said gear is necessary to progress?
 
I could do with a game that doesn't have that "hiden mini-game". <_<
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			How does it work? I am glad you asked! In fact I just updated the original post to add the theoretical details of how it would work. I think it would work very well! See original post second half!	
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In my opinion the hunt for items is one of the most important parts of an mmo to bind players.
 
In drop 3 there is a big overhaul of raid and dungeon drops as far as I know, so we'll see how this works out.	
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I wouldn't mind class specific gear that looks and fits the class that it's made for. Personally, the best time I had in WoW was obtaining the tier gear on my priest because they looked amazing and added a nice touch. Burning crusade had some of the most amazing gear models in the game (imo). I'd still rock out T6 on my priest if I was still playing.
 
I don't see why having a bit of a gear grind for tier gear is a bad thing. It gave players a large reason to keep on raiding to get their tier pieces. Even go back to older raids to acquire them.
 
We almost have class specific gear in this game at this point considering primary stats effect individual classes different.	
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