GrandFool
07-06-2024, 12:47 AM
What came first… the chicken, or the egg? That question sums up how I feel about gearing in AL. As a returning player from back when the level cap was 41, I can attest to the game changing quite a bit over the last decade it’s been around.
Gold farming requires gear to do efficiently. Gearing effectively can cost 100-300m easily. With where I’m at right now, a sunken run takes 20m or so to do, for MAYBE 10k gold for my setup. That theoretically be 3,000 runs or about 1,000 hours of runs for me.
For anyone that might be considering the plat route… at face value, 25m gold is worth like $120 USD, so it would take hundreds of dollars if not thousands to outright pay for the gear. I know there might be better ways to leverage the plat… but it’s just for examples sake of the situation at hand.
Boring math out of the way…How does a newer player with no cash or gear close that gap? What does gear progression/gold generation look like for players that can’t rely on years of events to build their game wealth?
Gold farming requires gear to do efficiently. Gearing effectively can cost 100-300m easily. With where I’m at right now, a sunken run takes 20m or so to do, for MAYBE 10k gold for my setup. That theoretically be 3,000 runs or about 1,000 hours of runs for me.
For anyone that might be considering the plat route… at face value, 25m gold is worth like $120 USD, so it would take hundreds of dollars if not thousands to outright pay for the gear. I know there might be better ways to leverage the plat… but it’s just for examples sake of the situation at hand.
Boring math out of the way…How does a newer player with no cash or gear close that gap? What does gear progression/gold generation look like for players that can’t rely on years of events to build their game wealth?