I know this may stir up some controversy, so I will try to keep it as objective as possible...
For those of you who didn't play Pocket Legends, I will let you know about the forgotten bows. There was a week long event in PL in which a special boss dropped new weapons called the Forgotten weapons. The mage and the warrior weapons were so so, but the bow was incredibly good. Not only were they good, but if you knew how to farm them, they would drop like rain. One might ask: what is wrong with this? These weapons were so good that they changed twink pvp and changed the twink weapon market. Now everyone from bears, to mages, to birds were all using bows in pvp, and weapons which had been in the past very expensive were suddenly worthless. This cause much controversy and much argument on the forums, with the bows being eventually partially nerfed, but it was too late as the damage had already been done.
So why do I bring this up? I see a similar situation with the Tarlok legendary gear. This gear is incredibly overpowered at a few twink levels. For example if you compare the sorcerer top damage gear from season one (clever demonologist of grace/fitness) at lvl15 to the top damage tarlok gear (helm, armor, heart of assault) at lvl15, every single stat is improved with the damage increasing by approximately 15%!
I understand the need to infuse the market with more elite/legendary twink gear as the stuff from seasons gone by are no longer farmable, and the number of items in circulation decreases as people leave the game, essentially taking their gear with them. This is especially true of some merchs who may have amassed hoards of these items and no longer play. This would all be good if this happened under two conditions: 1) the gear was not blatantly better or worse than old gear, but added some variety to the game; and 2) the gear was difficult to farm and did not flood the market. Unfortunately, neither of these conditions were met, with the new gear being substantially better than old gear in some cases, and with the gear already flooding the market only a few days into this month long event. Just take a look in the auction house and you will see what I mean, even at low levels which should theoretically be hard to farm for. Having farmed myself at several twink levels it is just far too easy if you are willing to spend a little plat. This has just killed the twink gear market with prices plummeting and forcing many players to buy new sets of gear. Now I and not a merch, but more of a collector, and I will not get rid of all my old gear just because prices dropped, but this is a little dissapointing.
I think the winter event has been a fun and great event so far, but I think the new items are just too overpowered and are dropping far too easily. The new items should be rarer, considering that we have a whole month to farm for them. They should also be different yet somewhat equivalent to old elite legendary gear, being better in some stats, but worse in others.
Please let me know what you all think.
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