• underscores@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    isn’t this how MMOs work ? you’re asking for horizontal fearing which is less traditionally(GW2 does it) but most MMOs do not.

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      1 day ago

      FFXIV also kinda avoids this as well, if you grind for endgame gear it tends to carry you to a little over the halfway point or to the end of the next expansion before the patch cycles start. Like gear from 7.55 (last patch of old expansion) should carry you through most of 8.0 (new expansion launch).

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        1 day ago

        This not true, FFXIV is a vertical gear tread mil.

        The only reason you can do the story with low ilvl is because the story is not end game content which is what gearing is for. The story might as well not have an associated ilvl and it wouldn’t impact the story experience at all. It only exists to make normal mode players feel like there’s some level of progression.

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      2 days ago

      Not exactly. Did you play the first seasons? Basically every dlc there were items you’d farm to buy gear (or something it’s been a decade now and I forget) that became completely obsolete when the next dlc came out.

      Most rpgs you can sell those items. But in Destiny you had to delete them.

      I played tf out of MMOs. It wouldn’t have stood out to me if it was at all a typical experience.