Spyderbite@Venekor wrote:
Flaye@Mistmoore wrote:
In short: IMO, it's not just the Devs painting themselves into a corner ... the player base is the ones handing them the brushes & paint.
Heh.. I was waiting for somebody in this thread to finally state the obvious! XD
The devs don't just pull these things out of their arses. People ask for this kind of stuff no matter what aspect of the game it is. The players need to stop pointing fingers exclusively at the development team and instead turn around to the guy/gal standing next to them in game and smack them in the back of the head and scream "Knock it off!". 
I was mentoring down to 52 to help people finishing the two lavastorm HQ when we spotted a ^^ 50ish named monster,
he was easy and dropped ornate chest, in it a no trade shield with level like 50 on it, the shield stat were close to early ROK gear, probably much better than any t7 raid. The shield was indeed close to the mastercrafted shield i use to solo.
The collections also give charms with +55 to a stat, if you compare to t6 dolls giving like 10 you conclude that the dev went mad. We also got a crazy monk belt from a named that is close to the book of tranix, item was 50ish and teh stats close to early t8 items.