I'm sorry freddy, but I just don't see how someone can get annoyed that they cannot craft their own gear, for no reason other than they are not subbed, and then deciding to not sub. There just isn't any logic in that.
Wearing armor and jewels below the max you can wear isn't anything new, everyone who has mastered a skill, or even gotten close to a master, is doing it, just like jarnys said.
That this would make people quit playing doesnt make any sense, since you can craft melee weapons that you cannot uncap, jewels and armors that are almost as good as the best you can wear (like it has been said, masters are further from the theoretical max than 125ers). The only thing missing is amps for your latest spells, and for ele this is a problem since you just get your racials and can't make amps for em. For healers, this isn't such a big problems since you often heal with dual heals and you do not have enough credits to pull off a double 140 spell without timecredits and math says you shouldn't ever use those.
Wearing armor and jewels below the max you can wear isn't anything new, everyone who has mastered a skill, or even gotten close to a master, is doing it, just like jarnys said.
That this would make people quit playing doesnt make any sense, since you can craft melee weapons that you cannot uncap, jewels and armors that are almost as good as the best you can wear (like it has been said, masters are further from the theoretical max than 125ers). The only thing missing is amps for your latest spells, and for ele this is a problem since you just get your racials and can't make amps for em. For healers, this isn't such a big problems since you often heal with dual heals and you do not have enough credits to pull off a double 140 spell without timecredits and math says you shouldn't ever use those.
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Gasket
"It's shite being tryker! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of Atys! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the Matis. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Marceline, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any ****** difference"