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Lempo

10-13-2011, 01:56 PM

I rolled a Necro and Troub to play through some lower tiers and check out the new itemization, as I was going along I found many holes, some gaping, some of little consequence. The Thundering Steppes questline overall seemd to be pretty good, completing it filled out a complete set of armor. Other areas were of varying quality after running across enough things that made me think "How could this many items have been missed?" I started taking screenshots when I saw something that was completely missed or was done improperly/halfway.These things in themselves are not game breaking, but some are a great example of many of the issues in the game right now which has multiple root causes be it the team being stretched too thin, the person doing the work not really paying attention to detail, or possibly not caring very much because the results of what they do are not checked and reviewed unless the player base uncovers it. I did a small subset of the quests, and easily found at least 100 items, and at least 20 quests that the rewards were completely untouched in the re-itemization or were only halfway (or less) done.I spent a few minutes cropping and pasting these in an attempt to make them somewhat forum friendly, the problems should speak for themselves. If I saw more dev participation in this forum I'd detail the issues with these items, but if anyone is doing itemization and they see this then if they don't immediately see the issues then it is hopeless that they could fix it anyway.<a href="http://s1080.photobucket.com/albums/j331/LempoOfGrobb/?action=view&current=quests1.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j331/LempoOfGrobb/quests1.png" border="0" /></a>

Lempo

10-13-2011, 01:56 PM

Lempo

10-13-2011, 01:56 PM

Lempo

10-13-2011, 01:57 PM

Now some items.<a href="http://s1080.photobucket.com/albums/j331/LempoOfGrobb/?action=view&current=items4.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j331/LempoOfGrobb/items4.png" border="0" /></a>

Lempo

10-13-2011, 01:58 PM

Lempo

10-13-2011, 01:59 PM

Lempo

10-13-2011, 01:59 PM

Lempo

10-13-2011, 02:04 PM

This is only a small subset of what I found, it is simply too much work for me to do, and frankly it isn't my job. This is far too many items though found by 2 toons, (most by one) in a small subset of zones in the game.

Gaealiege

10-13-2011, 04:25 PM

Keep up the good work, Lempo!Basically go back and look at anything dropping from a T5 raid mob as well.

Lempo

10-13-2011, 05:43 PM

All the talk about these kind of changes making the game more friendly for new players is kind of null and void with what has to be the number of gaping holes that I found in just a few zones.I did all the T5 raid stuff many moons ago, there were some overland zones that even in 2006 that you would out level before completing the content, the ones I liked I ran and level locked for AA. The next toon I do like this will be a healer but not until I have the troub and necro at 90/300.I do not know how much of an overall impact that what this stuff I posted here has but you don't have to look far beyond it to see why so much of the current content is messed up.