Hypernetic Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 (edited) Seriously, what is with the piss poor itemization in this game? Why is rakata tank gear stacked with accuracy? It's a down grade over columi... The only solution is to rip the mods/enhancments out of my columi and stuff them in my rakata gear, which seems a bit silly. This isn't a bug, it's just really stupid game design. Edited February 8, 2012 by Hypernetic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeda Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Seriously, what is with the piss poor itemization in this game? Why is rakata tank gear stacked with accuracy? It's a down grade over columi... The only solution is to rip the mods/enhancments out of my columi and stuff them in my rakata gear, which seems a bit silly. This isn't a bug, it's just really stupid game design. Then its a perfect fit for this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypernetic Posted February 8, 2012 Author Share Posted February 8, 2012 Then its a perfect fit for this game. True enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipda Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Well at least you get the proper amount of excessive stats now that they got the Rakata thing sorted. I am really not sure the people who made TOR have ever seen another MMO before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhazesx Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I had to rip all the alacrity mods out of my gear and replace with surge/crit mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slightlycampana Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I am really not sure the people who made TOR have ever seen another MMO before. I wish they'd spent less time looking at other MMOs, and more time trying to think up their own way of doing things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inseeisyou Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I would call it WAI. There are level 25 Mods/Enhancements that drop in the operations that have the stats you want instead of the bastard children Accuracy/Alacrity. Think of it as "gearing up your Rakata gear". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genesiser Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I had to rip all the alacrity mods out of my gear and replace with surge/crit mods. You wouldn't have to if they actually implemented alacrity in a good way. When you have to manage your energy, alacrity isn't good. When a lot of your skills/spells are 1.5 seconds, the global cooldown is 1.5 seconds, and alacrity does not reduce the gcd, then alacrity is isn't good. To make alacrity an attractive stat it should increase energy regen and it should also reduce the gcd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramurdyne Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 (edited) they put it there on purpose so you have to do dailies to get good mods for it. cybertech can t do it because the mods they make arent as good as the dailies, or so ive been told by many a cybertech Edited February 8, 2012 by Ramurdyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptwonline Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I wish they'd spent less time looking at other MMOs, and more time trying to think up their own way of doing things. Unfortunately, when they do that you get things like flashy UI's that give people headaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImpactHound Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 reminds me of classic wow quest rewards, where you'd get cloth gear with STR on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipda Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I wish they'd spent less time looking at other MMOs, and more time trying to think up their own way of doing things. Agree, but we got a ham fisted flawed implementation of other MMO mechanics systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxbaby Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 There was no ulterior motive on devs' behalf. they just slapped stats on gear without playing their own game in-depth. the idea of gearing your rakata is cunning but I am not sure it's a deliberate design. alacrity for troopers is so wasted that it's a pain to destroy enhancement for an inferior one but which gives a better performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calei Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I'm almost convinced the developers don't even play thier own game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarianrakista Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Almost convinced, lol. There is simply no way they are eating their own dogfood or their would be no itemization problems this significant after 7 years of development. In good MMOs people ***** that devs only care about end game because honestly that is all they have been playing for years and years. This game feels like it was designed by 100's of conference calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhazesx Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I'm almost convinced the developers don't even play thier own game. If they do its very casual gameplay and with 0 pvp at all. All it would take is 3 matches in a row of 12v8(known exploit since beta) and they would squashed that exploit the next day, some servers this exploit is used every single match completely destroying the fun factor. If they had to pvp for hours to finish their daily or didn't get to finish because 7 of their wins didn't count that bug would have been fixed 2 months ago. Bioware is grossly negligent when it comes to problems in this game. They need to hotfix like every other AAA MMO developer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustTed Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I wish they'd spent less time looking at other MMOs, and more time trying to think up their own way of doing things. Actually, WoW had this same problem early on. Then they fixed it. Looking at other MMOs is fine, particularly successful ones that are excellent games like WoW. Looking at WoW five years ago and emulating that, warts and all, is the problem with this game. It's not that it's emulating WoW, it's that it's emulating WoW circa 1.x to 2.x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypernetic Posted February 8, 2012 Author Share Posted February 8, 2012 I could understand some of the arguments you guys are making if the columi gear also suffered from the same itemization issues, but it doesn't. Columi tank gear is itemized for tanking. The mods/enhancements in columi gear are straight up better than the ones in rakata even with their lower item level. Why is this? They have two defensive stats on them instead of half of one and 51 accuracy. There is zero excuse for poor itemization. If the intention was to have you put mods that drop in hard modes in the gear you also only get from hard modes (rakata pieces) then the mods should simply be better, not better itemized. It's terrible game design and further proof that they spent very little time working on end game. As much as I'd like to go off on a tangent about that, I'm going to keep this on topic and about itemization. I'd really like to get a dev response or something as to why tank gear is full of accuracy. Do they not even understand how their own stats work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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