Potency on BG gear.

[Valind]

<p>Why are the potency stats on the shoulders and neck-pieces pvp only? Those effects can be gained by simply buying the gear off the broker and the stuff you buy off the broker has more potency as well. Fair enough you dont want 2-3% potency on every piece of gear, but why not the shoulders and neck?</p><p>T2-3 shard armor from last expansion had 8 and 9% potency on the shoulders and you can buy a neck with 9% potency off the broker.</p>

[EndevorX]

<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">I agree with this being a terrible discrepancy, as even old TSO PvP pieces had absolute potency available on them.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Can this be fixed, or will there be an official response on whether this can be revised?</span></p>

[Gungo]

<p>Battleground gear is entirely to powerful already. No need to make it more overpowered for the effort needed to obtain it.</p><p>In all honestly they need to increase the quality of mark gear because it is complete trash compared to battleground gear.</p>

[Valind]

<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Battleground gear is entirely to powerful already. No need to make it more overpowered for the effort needed to obtain it.</p></blockquote><p>As compared to simply buying the gear off the broker? yeah, i can see how that is very difficult, much more difficult than spending several hours running battlegrounds to get a piece of gear.</p>

[Gungo]

<p><cite>Valindor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Battleground gear is entirely to powerful already. No need to make it more overpowered for the effort needed to obtain it.</p></blockquote><p>As compared to simply buying the gear off the broker? yeah, i can see how that is very difficult, much more difficult than spending several hours running battlegrounds to get a piece of gear.</p></blockquote><p>You honestly want to argue that getting a full set of fabled gear from a merchant for in your own words "Several hours running battlegrounds" is hard? Also last I checked most fabled gear is not obtainable on the broker. Might want to try rewriting that last statement.</p><p>I honestly dont remeber when the broker even had decent gear for sale. I think the last time I was able to buy decent fabled gear on the broker was the end of tier 5. Now if by broker you meant loot rights then a with an unlimited supply of plat (read at least several thousand) and a server were guilds are selling every peice of tier 2 raid armour you needed you might have a point, but good luck finding that scenario. Even with a full set of tier 2 raid gear I still use ~2 battleground peices of gear. If that doesnt scream overpowered I dont know what will.</p>

[Valind]

<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You honestly want to argue that getting a full set of fabled gear from a merchant for in your own words "Several hours running battlegrounds" is hard? Also last I checked most fabled gear is not obtainable on the broker. Might want to try rewriting that last statement.</p><p>I honestly dont remeber when the broker even had decent gear for sale. I think the last time I was able to buy decent fabled gear on the broker was the end of tier 5. Now if by broker you meant loot rights then a with an unlimited supply of plat (read at least several thousand) and a server were guilds are selling every peice of tier 2 raid armour you needed you might have a point, but good luck finding that scenario. Even with a full set of tier 2 raid gear I still use ~2 battleground peices of gear. If that doesnt scream overpowered I dont know what will.</p></blockquote><p>Who said anything about FABLED? I'm quite happy to use a treasured piece of gear if it happens to have better stats. but here we go, a quick trip to the broker gave me these three items. There are more that I've seen (my troub is wearing one that isnt shown) but I couldn't get a link for them off the freeport side broker.</p><p><img src="http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk202/Paikis/PotencyNecks.png" /></p><p>Now I can spend a day or three running BGs to get the Dreadnaught choker... or I can spend 40p (which is chump change) and get one of those. Heck, if I went to a black market broker Im sure I could even find one with Fighter stats on it. lets take a look at the other blue stats on the items. The fabled lots-of-time-and-effort neck has 2 crit. Two of the others have 8 crit. 4 times the bonus. And the fourth item has crit bonus, which is probably better than any amount of crit considering how rediculously easy it is to cap crit chance.</p><p>Of those items pictured, the one with the LEAST potency and WORST other bonuses is also the item which takes by FAR the longest to get. Most effort, most time, least reward. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?</p>

[Banditman]

<p>Quite honestly, right now, the L90 BG Merchant armor is fine for beginning raiding.  I'm not really sure it should be, but it is.</p><p>Yes, you'll want to get into red slot gear as quickly as possible, but for starting out?  It's really good.  Better than T2 shard armor was for starting TSO raiding for sure.</p>

[Gungo]

<p><cite>Valindor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You honestly want to argue that getting a full set of fabled gear from a merchant for in your own words "Several hours running battlegrounds" is hard? Also last I checked most fabled gear is not obtainable on the broker. Might want to try rewriting that last statement.</p><p>I honestly dont remeber when the broker even had decent gear for sale. I think the last time I was able to buy decent fabled gear on the broker was the end of tier 5. Now if by broker you meant loot rights then a with an unlimited supply of plat (read at least several thousand) and a server were guilds are selling every peice of tier 2 raid armour you needed you might have a point, but good luck finding that scenario. Even with a full set of tier 2 raid gear I still use ~2 battleground peices of gear. If that doesnt scream overpowered I dont know what will.</p></blockquote><p>Who said anything about FABLED? I'm quite happy to use a treasured piece of gear if it happens to have better stats. but here we go, a quick trip to the broker gave me these three items. There are more that I've seen (my troub is wearing one that isnt shown) but I couldn't get a link for them off the freeport side broker.</p><p>Now I can spend a day or three running BGs to get the Dreadnaught choker... or I can spend 40p (which is chump change) and get one of those. Heck, if I went to a black market broker Im sure I could even find one with Fighter stats on it. lets take a look at the other blue stats on the items. The fabled lots-of-time-and-effort neck has 2 crit. Two of the others have 8 crit. 4 times the bonus. And the fourth item has crit bonus, which is probably better than any amount of crit considering how rediculously easy it is to cap crit chance.</p><p>Of those items pictured, the one with the LEAST potency and WORST other bonuses is also the item which takes by FAR the longest to get. Most effort, most time, least reward. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?</p></blockquote><p>I am thinking you wouldnt pick the crappiest piece of battleground loot and compare it to the ONLY item slot in pve that has had inflated stats since the bloodthirsty choker forced them to put 10%+ potency on every neck they created since tso.</p><p>I can link almost every cloak, a dozen rings and wrist slot items from BG that has NOT a single legendary item to compare it too.</p><p>And honestly if t takes you 3 days to get 60-70 tokens you need to stop sucking. That is at most 70 matches if you lost EVERY single one and at minimum 24.</p>

[Taldier]

<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valindor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You honestly want to argue that getting a full set of fabled gear from a merchant for in your own words "Several hours running battlegrounds" is hard? Also last I checked most fabled gear is not obtainable on the broker. Might want to try rewriting that last statement.</p><p>I honestly dont remeber when the broker even had decent gear for sale. I think the last time I was able to buy decent fabled gear on the broker was the end of tier 5. Now if by broker you meant loot rights then a with an unlimited supply of plat (read at least several thousand) and a server were guilds are selling every peice of tier 2 raid armour you needed you might have a point, but good luck finding that scenario. Even with a full set of tier 2 raid gear I still use ~2 battleground peices of gear. If that doesnt scream overpowered I dont know what will.</p></blockquote><p>Who said anything about FABLED? I'm quite happy to use a treasured piece of gear if it happens to have better stats. but here we go, a quick trip to the broker gave me these three items. There are more that I've seen (my troub is wearing one that isnt shown) but I couldn't get a link for them off the freeport side broker.</p><p><img src="http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk202/Paikis/PotencyNecks.png" /></p><p>Now I can spend a day or three running BGs to get the Dreadnaught choker... or I can spend 40p (which is chump change) and get one of those. Heck, if I went to a black market broker Im sure I could even find one with Fighter stats on it. lets take a look at the other blue stats on the items. The fabled lots-of-time-and-effort neck has 2 crit. Two of the others have 8 crit. 4 times the bonus. And the fourth item has crit bonus, which is probably better than any amount of crit considering how rediculously easy it is to cap crit chance.</p><p>Of those items pictured, the one with the LEAST potency and WORST other bonuses is also the item which takes by FAR the longest to get. Most effort, most time, least reward. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?</p></blockquote><p>I am thinking you wouldnt pick the crappiest piece of battleground loot and compare it to the ONLY item slot in pve that has had inflated stats since the bloodthirsty choker forced them to put 10%+ potency on every neck they created since tso.</p><p>I can link almost every cloak, a dozen rings and wrist slot items from BG that has NOT a single legendary item to compare it too.</p></blockquote><p>His OP only asked for the potency to be allowed on the neck and shoulders.  He never mentioned changing cloaks, rings, or wrist slots.</p>

[Silverzx]

<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valindor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You honestly want to argue that getting a full set of fabled gear from a merchant for in your own words "Several hours running battlegrounds" is hard? Also last I checked most fabled gear is not obtainable on the broker. Might want to try rewriting that last statement.</p><p>I honestly dont remeber when the broker even had decent gear for sale. I think the last time I was able to buy decent fabled gear on the broker was the end of tier 5. Now if by broker you meant loot rights then a with an unlimited supply of plat (read at least several thousand) and a server were guilds are selling every peice of tier 2 raid armour you needed you might have a point, but good luck finding that scenario. Even with a full set of tier 2 raid gear I still use ~2 battleground peices of gear. If that doesnt scream overpowered I dont know what will.</p></blockquote><p>Who said anything about FABLED? I'm quite happy to use a treasured piece of gear if it happens to have better stats. but here we go, a quick trip to the broker gave me these three items. There are more that I've seen (my troub is wearing one that isnt shown) but I couldn't get a link for them off the freeport side broker.</p><p>Now I can spend a day or three running BGs to get the Dreadnaught choker... or I can spend 40p (which is chump change) and get one of those. Heck, if I went to a black market broker Im sure I could even find one with Fighter stats on it. lets take a look at the other blue stats on the items. The fabled lots-of-time-and-effort neck has 2 crit. Two of the others have 8 crit. 4 times the bonus. And the fourth item has crit bonus, which is probably better than any amount of crit considering how rediculously easy it is to cap crit chance.</p><p>Of those items pictured, the one with the LEAST potency and WORST other bonuses is also the item which takes by FAR the longest to get. Most effort, most time, least reward. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?</p></blockquote><p>........ since the bloodthirsty choker forced them to put 10%+ potency on every neck they created since tso.</p></blockquote><p>Then put it on the [Removed for Content] BG neck also, problem solved</p>

[Neskonlith]

<p><cite>Valindor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Now I can spend a day or three running BGs to get the Dreadnaught choker... or I can spend 40p (which is chump change) and get one of those.</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">You paid 40p for one of those legendary necks?  </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">You got ripped off - I think I paid 10p for this one:</span></p><p><img src="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb310/Bitter_Coffee/screenies/parses/easypotency.jpg" /></p>

[Valind]

<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I can link almost every cloak, a dozen rings and wrist slot items from BG that has NOT a single legendary item to compare it too.</p></blockquote><p>What does this thread have to do with cloaks and rings and wrists? Nothing.</p>