Originally Posted by Akka
Because it's also part of the game ? :-/
Would you find a "create a fully geared lvl 70 character" button very interesting ?
What's the point of having 5-men instances if you can get better gear more easily through losing in PvP ? Making half the game obsolete ?
Where is the pleasure of improving your character gear when you have free epics factories ?
And where is the feeling of accomplishment and progression when seasonal gear magically become more powerful and makes more and more content obsolete ?
If you don't find any fun in actually investing a bit to make your character grows, and wish just to get fast gear to frag people, then definitely you should wonder if playing a RPG is really what you want.
As I said, Counter-Strike is fun, but if I want to play Counter-Strike, I'll play Counter-Strike, not some subscription-based game where the very basis is character development...
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I would find a "create a new 70 character with the same gear progression as your most progressed character" very appealing. An alt or new main does not progress until it reaches the main's level of progression. Going from S3 to greens then crawling back to S3 is not progression, it's treading water for however long that took just to play a slightly different flavour of the same game.
This is also PVP where you cannot target content suitable to your gear level. As soon as you make a new arena team you'll be pitted against S3 teams. As soon as you step into a BG you're signing up to be plowed by S3 players. I've had people /spit on my rogue and tell me to gtfo BGs until I gear up... but where do they expect me to get this gear otherwise? If it wasn't for the ability to lose myself into competitive gear I might as well not even play my rogue as he'd be cannon fodder for months on end unless I get friends to carry him. I like how it is now. Infact, I'd like it sligly easier than it is now. But if it has to stay where it is, that's fine.
Also, cut out the counter-strike BS. If I wanted to play counter-strike I'd go play it. I'm playing WoW because I want to play WoW. Wanting it to move a little more in one direction, or stay the course it's going in one area doesn't make me a frag-head who should go play counter-strike. I could say the same to you, that you should go play Lineage if you want so badly to have to stick your dick in a vice to progress. Only I won't because then I couldn't tell you to cut that shit out.
EDIT: Calixtus I honestly and truly don't care if/when/how PVP gear allows you to skip raid content. As long as a character can gear themselves for PVP, through PVP, and in a reasonable timeframe I don't care what they do or don't do to ensure it doesn't impact PVE.