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To be breif and to the point i'll list what i mean first. Then explain afterwards.

1. Gear that gives more xp per fight

2. Gear that boost healing spells on players but makes them vulnerable to death spells.

3. Gear that greatly boost attack power to one school, but also weakens the defense to the opposing school's magic.

4. gear that greatly boost defense power to one school, but also weakens the attack power to the opposing school.

5. Gear that gives an insane amount of health like 1,000 or 2,000 or so. But that would be its only benefit, maybe even make it increase weakness to all magic.

6. Complete sets of gear dropped by monsters in a zone. what i mean by that is like rare drops that would have treasure cards with them.

lets say, someone wanted the outfit of the blind or something like that. every piece of gear with it, might come with one or more hex cards. which would be around 6 or more hex cardds if you had the complete set. And if you had the complete set it might allow you to use a rare and powerful spell. Perhaps in this instance. A hex all spell, which would hex the entire enemy team.

My emphasis is on MONSTER DROP, not just a boss drop.

Now these are just examples and there are plenty of more ways to add depth and strategy to the gear. But heres why i think something like this would be good for the game.


As player vs player comes out, there really isnt alot of good gear choices. you have about four or five good selections from the shop while every thing else is junk. This means that most people are wearing almost the same gear.

As a result of this, when players are the same level, there health is just about the same. while if players are a lower level there health will be no where close, thus creating a big disadvantage for the lower level player. which by terms of gear choices, he cant really do anything about.

However, with more unique gear, and good strategy, the lower level player could have a better chance in a duel. For example, Say the lower level player was using some insane health gear while the higher level player was using attack boosting gear.

So lets say the low level has around 6,000 health
while the high level has around 2,000 but can hit 50% more with his schools spells.

I would say that this duel is about to become intresting :P

Having more intresting and strategic duels, is what adding new gear is all about.

The solution I'd like is no new higher level crown gear, but other higher level gear added which is comparable in strength to the highest level crown gear to already exist.


Wouldnt that take some custumers away from using crowns?
Another thing. Up until now this game is not so much based on PVP, that may change with the new system that's about to be added, but what I mean to say is that I can play this game happily without feeling the need to participate in any PVP tournaments. Why is this important? It's important because adding more monster drops or more strategy based equipment for use of PVP would not necesarily be a mistake. Maybe those types of equipments can be added to the crown shops, so that only those players that are intrested in PVP can buy them. The rest of the players can be very happy ignoring this new equipment and playing this game as if it didnt matter.

I hope I am making myself clear..English is not my first language :-)

I know this doesn't answer your questions, but I wanted to make sure that you know you can purchase Crowns gear with gold in the same city as you find the Crowns items on Zeke. (Zeke in Marleybone sells items for Crowns that can be purchased for gold in Marleybone from the other shopkeepers - etc for other worlds)

Shiningfantasia wrote:

I could not agree more with gear drops from random, normal monsters. People should be ENCOURAGED to grind and farm monsters.

How does a game encourage farming? By making it so that farming makes you stronger, and hence more likely to win battles. Taken to its logical conclusion, it is by making pvp a contest of who has the most free time to spend farming.

In order for pvp to be any good, there has to be a hard cap on how strong you can make your character, and you need to be able to reach that cap pretty quickly. Otherwise, you have to spend absurd amounts of time farming gear in order to be competitive in pvp. I realize that a lot of games do that, but that's why a good pvp system is so rare in online games.

No worries, I am not suggesting character strength in PvP to be based on how much you farm. The gear itself provides minute stat boosts that would be of little significance in a PvP battle.

Lets say, much like 2 Storm wizards in PvP. One will wear the Plague Oni robe, and the other would wear the Crown robe.

Both wizards are basically at the same strength, except perhaps, the one wearing the crown robe would have a smidgen more health, and a more powerful spell. (By more powerful, I mean, doing like.. maybe 100 more damage, and that is only one single card.) So, the difference is not drastic.

However, I suppose, If you have one 40 wizard, vs. a 45 wizard who has farmed up all of his/her gear from Mooshu, it might make a difference. But even then, THAT difference there would still not matter that much, especially if that wizard is in a group PvP supported by other wizard friends.

For example, I have spent a few days in PvP, before having resolved to continue to level Myth and Death wizard. I was accompanied by 2 level 20+ wizards, facing a 40+ death, and Ice wizard. It was because of those 2 level 20+ wizards that I was able to defeat the Death wizard, who was about to one-shot me with his Wraith.

What I was saying is that gear farmed up from Mooshu, the "final sets" should be what the "final sets" in Dragonspyre are. While I am sure a new set of crown gear is added, similiar farmed up sets will prove surprisingly similiar in strength.

A Storm wizard in Mooshu gear, will have a +24% (I think it was around there) damage boost to all his damage spells, and a +13% accuracy boost to all Thunder type spells. In dragonspyre, while crown gear might grant a single card of a more powerful spell, and a bit more health, the farmed up gear would even further boost given stats.

I think you might get my idea I am trying to bring accross. In a nutshell, the "strategic gear" being suggested wouldnt be any more powerful than either crown, or farm gear, it should mererly offer "variety" on how you equip your wizard, and should merely be farmed just like the Mooshu gear is now. This would also simply "merely" offer someone an option of grinding and fighting extra mobs. These options that games make available to players increase the games' fun-factor, keeps players busy, and provides players with goals and a possible purpose other than PvP'ing or questing.