Runes of Magic US / AU

Actually, the big issue wit no ABL means that original gear that droppeth fer me twill be unresellable ter a future player, slowin their progression AND decreasin me amount o gold. All diamonds spent on that gear item be lost, causin me ter be LESS likely ter spend dia on item improvement.

Why are some people (emphasis on some) happy abl's are gone. Please state a logical reason. not an opinion based one, its easy to just call someone who buys gear lazy but i wanna hear some solid "convincers" as to why ABL's are not needed

Because guilds like the one I am in will stay OP and get Op'r. While guilds that can't run the content either won't see the light of day unless they spend their weekly paychecks to stat and make shell gears or such to be able to get strong enough to run the endgame instance's. Only to consider regearing in a month with better gears if they desire (hope they have very good jobs and a long time to play)
They also will have to tier codex bought weapons so they get to the endgame instance weapons (asides all the weapons that will be sold prior unbound of people quitting this expensive game)

Alot of people believe that it will make more people run the content and get stuff for themselves, however what they don't realize is that it takes very strong other members to carry thru ill-geared folks , sure guilds help others when they can like our guild does but often we just wanna play, don't wanna spend 2.5hrs on a tosh run that should take an hour ,rezzing people and dying ourself and just spending way too much gold for a simple run. We are only able to take a couple of undergeared people a night.

Usually when asked in guild "who wants tosh" the better geared players always wait to answer to see who is going. Its usually (of course) all the ones that need gears are the first to answer quickly. expecting a drag thru without helping much.

Sorry for my way of thought, but I was coleader of a large guild for several years, I tanked 6-20 hrs a day for what I called "Guild duty runs" I roll on hardly anything cause I was the least person of need and those days are over.I never achieved "endgame" status that way, I got only well geared (mostly for the reasons of the diamonds I bought)
I just wanna play now tyvm.
I love to help people but it hinders progress , and don't get me wrong, I help when I can, but I just wanna play.
This game is already kinda boring, mainly the fact you can't really just logon and start playing unless you want to craft and farm, It takes much to wait and assemble a raid for things. Unlike a FPS game you logon into battles.

I also want to comment that yes I did play the game a longtime w/out ABL's but was different then. Gears lasted longer, diamond sales were often, it didn't cost so much to make gears and for that matter blue gears (didn't have purples at first) didn't even have ghost stats, so the only advantage was a small set bonus.....I wore white hd unbound gears for a longtime because of the no ABL's. Game has just gotten so expensive. I don't see how they plan on making money as a business.

Players should also remember, as they're discussing this issue, that not having ABLs permanently in the IS does NOT mean that we will never have them. I have mentioned at least 3 times now (maybe not in this thread, but somewhere on some threads...) that Frogster has given us the EU IS structure to replace our own, so this much we all acknowledge.
But know this as well: the EU is not without ABLs. In fact their AH is full of gear and weapons from level 50 purples all the way up through ToSH. What the EU gets is ABLs as promos, which is when they stock up and then sell items at their leisure. I don't think there's any reason to suspect that this would not continue to be the case, knowing that Frogster wants to keep to their EU structure. What is likely to happen is that ABLs will be sold during promotions or happy hour specials.

I still don't think that's going to be satisfactory, but again, we can't talk as if ABLs are gone forever.

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Players should also remember, as they're discussing this issue, that not having ABLs permanently in the IS does NOT mean that we will never have them. I have mentioned at least 3 times now (maybe not in this thread, but somewhere on some threads...) that Frogster has given us the EU IS structure to replace our own, so this much we all acknowledge.
But know this as well: the EU is not without ABLs. In fact their AH is full of gear and weapons from level 50 purples all the way up through ToSH. What the EU gets is ABLs as promos, which is when they stock up and then sell items at their leisure. I don't think there's any reason to suspect that this would not continue to be the case, knowing that Frogster wants to keep to their EU structure. What is likely to happen is that ABLs will be sold during promotions or happy hour specials.

I still don't think that's going to be satisfactory, but again, we can't talk as if ABLs are gone forever.

I have to completely agree here. As said in my post as well just because they are gone does not mean permanently. We will have to stock up when we can and make the best of it. I really feel tho that they should be back more often, double diamonds more often, and possibly make bound items bound to your account. It would be nice if you could re roll a toon and use your gear on your own account. Other games I have played really made the player base happy with this feature.