I think this past CCF was the first time the WPS merchant was opened in mass. Most of the time its a merchant spinning for 10 slots with a max of like 10 services to the item. There is like 1-2 of these a month. Getting the "max" services or even half that for the 2 month period can be downright impossible without bloodscrip.
You can hunt fine in 4 - 6x vanilla gear at cap, you just have to be a little more careful. The wizard I have been leveling, he's 50 now and I have no issues at all hunting critters 4-5 levels above with just his own spells. Without a PvP system or a progressive raid system, the top end shit is worthless to me as a gamer.
Actually I have been devising a PvP system for gs for almost 3 - 4 years now. Over the coming months, probably more towards early winter I'm going to try to meet with Wyrom and pitch him the system. It's taking a bit of time because it involves some other aspects that will require some help from some other players RL professional talents. I have been crazy busy but I'm going to try and start hitting some people up this weekend.
The only thing that would make this system not work is if players can't control their epeens. If I do say so myself this is an amazing system that stands a good chance of being taken seriously by Wyrom.
Hey now, lets keep it civil...
Oh wait, Player Corner is basically 4chan /pol/ but with boomers instead of 90s kids who masturbate over Waffen SS footage.
Anyway, the true definition of Pay2win IMO is that you buy something from a lootbox and hope for best that you get something great about it. In Gemstone's sake its events like Ebon Gate, Duskruin, etc. The only difference is that the chances of getting the best stuff ar neigh impossible and you can only get currency to BUY that item to get it. Therefore you pay more for a vegas roulette. In Runescape, nobody waits for a event to get Bandos Armour or Armadyll Greatsword. Those are high end stuff but are available ALL THE TIME. It maybe RNG but its possible. However in Gemstone I am quite confident you cant loot a Adamantite or High/Low steel.
Leafiara just took a long walk off of a short pier!
J>kick rone
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You kick Rone!
The drops are from boss monsters at excruciating percentages, the Bandos plate is a Very Rare from level 210 - 624 bosses in a dungeon that requires 70 Strength and a slew of quests to access. Armadyll is fucking worse because you gotta have 70 Range and Range is crap since the EoC rolled through.
The comparison between the two doesn't mean much to someone that actually understands both games.