I don't care what you say...

Pullin' Agro!

So this may be my final post as a hardcore raider, maybe as an EQ2 player. I would hate to say it, as much love as I have for this game, it might be over.

If you've read my twitter posts lately, you may have noticed my anger at SOE due to the upcoming nerfs to Avatar gear. I am not really happy at all and the hardcore raiding community is in pretty much agreement, I have yet to find a hardcore raider say that these changes are even close to acceptable. You can find these raider rants on the official boards and on flames, I don't feel like linking the 50+ page posts because they would just put me in a worse off mood. Maybe later.

Why am I so angry? Avatar gear on test has been nerfed, some of it by 75%! This gear is earned by defeating Avatars, which are aspects of some of the most powerful beings (gods) in Norrath. These fights are generally the hardest, most scripted and take the most concentration to win.

The community mod lady, Kiara seems to think that the gear is still the best gear in the game, as she said to me via Twitter, she's either ignorant or just misinformed. I would hope that she is just misinformed, because there is no way anyone can be this retarded.

To give you an idea how bad this nerf is, I will be replacing some of my current TSO Avatar gear with pieces form past expansions. 2 pieces from ROK and 1 peice from EOF, it's quite sad that I am going as far back as two years and a half years to get items that will get somewhat near the same qulity of what I have now. I am glad I am kind of a pack rat. One item will be replaced by a collection quest another by a drop from a heroic instance. And this is just my "healing" stance set. This does not include my dps sets and variations! That's only if I decide to stay, but I wouldn't be surprised if you end up seeing my toons up on The Bazaar after GU #53 goes live.

What a joke, if you wanted to push your most dedicated raiders away from the game, this is the best way, if you wanted to turn EQ2 in to a causal raiding game, this will probably do it.

Honestly, right now in this part of the expansion, how does our Avatar gear hurt the game? I could understand if this was the beginning of a new expansion, where gear simply gets degraded because new gear comes out. Also there is degradation system in the works for the next expansion. These items will probably will be worth jack at 90 anyway if I understand it, but to gut them right now seems idiotic...

Oh Yeah, we killed Avatar of Valor and Flames last night. There was no excitement in the bids as there usually is when it comes to our Avatar kills, Items were going to almost minimum bids except for one item simply because the nerfs on it will be unknown.