2010-03-10, 11:47 PM
Lucida Wrote:Why not just make it so that higher hats intrinsically have more defense in the first place? They can't really change existing equips but they could easily make a level 130 hat with 150 defense.
First off I wasn't exclusively referencing hats, they were just an example.
Stereo Wrote:They can, and have. The Valkyrie Skirt got a 30 def upgrade at some point (50 to 80 average or so). Of course, it doesn't affect existing equips, but any found or made after that point have the higher def.
Which sadly would be the whole purpose of my suggestion. If it doesn't affect things already in existence, what help will it be? That's all we need right now; another kick in the shin to all the older players (from the perspective relative to the time of the change) in an attempt at balance.
Not that I plan to stick around MS too much longer, but let's face it. They've gotten too far into fixing imbalances with other band-aid imbalances and so on and so forth that if they tried to do anything with the game as is, it would never succeed in keeping everyone happy or balanced. You can hope that MS2 fixes the problems, but I'm not planing on giving that the luxury of my HDD space.