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-Shiva-
And to help drive Violacea’s point home even more, let’s check out an example shall we?
I’ll use the Rogue calling and Shiv because that’s what I’m most familiar with. So, here is the R50 Rogue Shiv currently on the PTS with a +13 Hit rune added to it:
R50 Shiv
DPS: 52.5
Strength: +26
Dexterity: +40
Endurance: +36
Physical Crit: +31
Hit: +38 +13= +51
Valor: +41
Vengeance: +15
Total AP: +33
Total PC: +71
Hit Rune: +13
Okay, now let’s compare that with the crafted axe that any player can get for enough plat, that has a Pure Valorstone Augment, and a +10 Dexterity rune added to it:
Carceran Berzerker Axe
One hand axe
DPS 52.5
Strength: +42
Dexterity: +42 + 10= +52
Endurance: +24
Physical Crit: +30
Hit: +65
Total AP: +47
Total PC: +82
Pure Valorstone Augment: +43 Valor
Dexterity Rune: +10
As can be seen here the Axe has more Strength, Dexterity, total AP, total Physical Crit, and Hit. To add insult to injury it even has more Valor. In contrast the Shiv beats out the Axe with Endurance and Vengeance.
On paper the Shiv does have one more AP against players when you add in Vengeance, but even that pathetic advantage is quickly eclipsed when you take into account the many talents available to Rogues in several of their souls that increase AP. Because those talents buff AP, but don’t buff Vengeance, making the PvP weapon even more inferior.
So what we have here is a crafted weapon that does more damage against NPCs, does more damage against PCs, and has more Valor than a weapon that requires a player to grind out 50 PvP ranks, and earn hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of Favour to purchase.
Where is the Raider outrage about that? Why is it unacceptable for a PvP player to have +50 Hit on their R50 weapons, but it is perfectly acceptable for a crafted weapon to have more Hit AND more Valor, that any player can buy without ever having set foot in a warfront, or a raid?
Once again PvP players must raid to get competitive gear, or pay raiders outrageous sums of plat to be able to gather the necessary ingredients to make what they need. It’s high time PvP gear was BiS for PvP, and as viable in PvE, as PvE gear is in PvP.
Where is the incentive, Trion, for PvP players? Why must PvP gear be inferior in so many avenues of play? It is more worth a player's time to fork over some RL dollars to a goldfarmer and buy what they need, as opposed to actually PvP for substandard gear.
This is not only wrong, it is just downright stupid.
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