VOTE! Radiance Gating, Yay or Nay???

[dartanion22]

I am not sure if everyone realizes that Turbines hands are tied on this , and it really isn't up for discussion.The fact is if they change this , then that will lead to the domino effect.As of now gating requires you to spend alot of time in the game to get the gear.Well all this time you are spending is money for Turbine.If you are casual , then that means if you want to see "end game" your subscription will carry on even longer.If you are hardcore , it keeps you here longer.So gating is a time sink made on purpose imo.Whether they will admit it or not , its a painfully obvious marketing tool.(maybe my mind is a lil warped , it may not be as obvious to you and also could just be my conspiracy paranoia kicking in hehe).If they did away with gating other ideas would be to do an attunement(this can be a trait based system or what ever the other ideas are here(.But if they did that , you better bet your butt that it would have to be an extremely long ,difficult ,group based type of system to keep you here.If they did away with it all together , they would have to make it soooo difficult that you would have to spend hours everyday just practicing on each fight to hopefully down a boss a month.Ultimately each scenario will result in a forum full of people who object and want it changed , nerfed, or done away with all together.With the current gating system they can make you sink time into the end game without making the end game too technically difficult.It may seem crazy.But, it may very well be whats best for Turbine given there resources.You Have to ignore games like WoW especially in cases like this.(For those who didn't know,wow did away with all there attunements , and just made you grind enough gear til you could handle the given raid).But this works for them because they have the resources to pull together very large content patches at an alarming rate.Unless Turbine feels as if they are losing people because of the gating,it probably will stay a long time.

Disclaimer :This is just my opinion as i am with the smaller band of Yays for keeping gating, this idea just hit me as a possible reason why it won't be.But none the less still just my opinion.

[ppezz65]

Nay.

Why tie the gating to gear? Why not just earn the hope or radiance needed via deeds. Once you defeat a certain mob once, your not as afraid the next time. Once you defeat a certain mob, then your less afraid to go after the next difficult mob. This could still be implemented to take the same amount of time as gear gating.

Makes total sense IMO. Plus it gets us back to the SOA armor days that many of us enjoyed.

[dartanion22]

Originally Posted by DarrettTeldemari

I'm not a fan of Radiance grinds. In fact, it would be nice if they stopped setting content for optimized groups.

It used to be that you could run high end instances even if you didn't have a Guardian or even a Minstrel, provided your team worked well together.

There's no reason that you shouldn't be able to just get a group of friends together and do a dungeon.

I agree , and there are a ton of dungeons in the game you can do just that.If thats all you want , then you can run any lower dungeon or non rad dungeon.But end game content is goal and award oriented.Which is typical.If you ask me this game caters to the casual Crowd better than just about any out there.A few things should still be hard core oriented for that particular crowd.If you are just wanting to socialize or run a dungeon with freinds just to doit , then there are countless options in this game to do that.

[anwar]

Pre-mom this was a great game, now it's a good game. With the new gating for yet another hardcore raid it will be an ok game at best, with fewer and fewer even seeing the new raids.

Nay

[Apophiss1]

Radiance just gives the Developers a crutch for LACK OF CREATIVITY with new content.

NAY Forever