Throne and Liberty

Is anyone still playing this? I'm up to level 50 now and have to say the levelling process although pretty easy (am sure I did 2 levels at once a couple of times) was good fun. Now I'm completing all the exploring quests for the various zones and also trying to complete the levelling log. What I am struggling with is gear and the completely confusing way in which I can actually get some, I'm still rocking green and blue stuff which doesn't really have the best stats or traits for me it's just I've not found any upgrades. I can't unlock or transfer traits because I have never seen more than 1 of the same very limited items. I'm getting insta-gibbed in the dungeons due to poor gear, the 3 times I've tried the first 50 co-op dungeons we didn't even manage to kill the boss. Now I don't mind working hard for my gear but this is ridiculous at the moment, am I just doing something wrong or are they trying to force you down the Auction House route?
 
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I'm playing in a guild with friends. They are all 2500+ combat score but i'm only 1900. I don't play as much as them so it's harder to keep up. I usually get killed in the guild bosses we do.
 
CliffyG said:
Is anyone still playing this? I'm up to level 50 now and have to say the levelling process although pretty easy (am sure I did 2 levels at once a couple of times) was good fun. Now I'm completing all the exploring quests for the various zones and also trying to complete the levelling log. What I am struggling with is gear and the completely confusing way in which I can actually get some, I'm still rocking green and blue stuff which doesn't really have the best stats or traits for me it's just I've not found any upgrades. I can't unlock or transfer traits because I have never seen more than 1 of the same very limited items. I'm getting insta-gibbed in the dungeons due to poor gear, the 3 times I've tried the first 50 co-op dungeons we didn't even manage to kill the boss. Now I don't mind working hard for my gear but this is ridiculous at the moment, am I just doing something wrong or are they trying to force you down the Auction House route?
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Im still going, 3500 + gear score and ready for the Tier 2 gear later this month I think it is.

You should be able to get to a decent gear score by just equipping blue items and upgrading/traiting them, I found grinding the Abyssal dungeon contracts are the best place for blue drops if you get partied up with 5 others. However once you start getting into purple items the grind becomes hard and boring encouraging you to pay for traits and items. The mistake I made at the start was equiping purple items that I couldnt level up whereas keeping a fully traited blue is far more beneficial.
 
MattHep said:
Im still going, 3500 + gear score and ready for the Tier 2 gear later this month I think it is.

You should be able to get to a decent gear score by just equipping blue items and upgrading/traiting them, I found grinding the Abyssal dungeon contracts are the best place for blue drops if you get partied up with 5 others. However once you start getting into purple items the grind becomes hard and boring encouraging you to pay for traits and items. The mistake I made at the start was equiping purple items that I couldnt level up whereas keeping a fully traited blue is far more beneficial.
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I've had a bit of luck with gear now and found doing contracts pretty beneficial. I'm just not really a fan of how items work, having to grind for the same item multiple times is a bit of a chore. I'll stick with it for a bit and see how it progresses but end game just seems to be do world bosses, farm contracts non-stop and do some dungeons. PvP is pretty much pointless for me as a ranged healer, tickle them with dmg till I get locked down and die.
 
CliffyG said:
I've had a bit of luck with gear now and found doing contracts pretty beneficial. I'm just not really a fan of how items work, having to grind for the same item multiple times is a bit of a chore. I'll stick with it for a bit and see how it progresses but end game just seems to be do world bosses, farm contracts non-stop and do some dungeons. PvP is pretty much pointless for me as a ranged healer, tickle them with dmg till I get locked down and die.
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I think the end game is only fun if you're in a top 5 guild on a server, world conflict bosses are impossible without this and the guild events also. I can see why the end game is boring to most unfortuantely. Healers are in demand in guilds as nobody normally likes to play them, its always the healer that we wait for when queing for Dungeons.

Im a tank so simliar to you really, I just do the opposite to sitting back. Run in, take a load of damage then die.
 
It's the closest of the modern MMOs I've tried to the old style ones in terms of skills use and combat etc I just really don't like the itemisation and lack of things to do. I can see everything wearing thin pretty quickly unfortunately.
 
Just got my head round how traits and lithographs work. You farm the same item over and over by running the same 5-10 min dungeon non stop (well until you run out of dimensional tokens) and if you don't get it there's a good chance you won't be able to do anything with the item you do get apart from turn it into dust. Even if you do there's a chance it'll have the same trait anyway. I'd rather farm miniscule drop rates than deal with this method especially once you add in all the extra farming you need to do to get all the required materials. I think on that note I am done. Shame really as there were plenty of bits I did like.
 
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MattHep said:
You porbably know but you can use the items dropped to upgrade traits on your equipped items. It's always going to force you to pay to win unfortunately.
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Yeah I saw that but getting the right trait to drop on the right bit of armour / weapon is quite difficult.

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At this point I'm considering giving wow another go.
 
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