Originally Posted by
Mastablasta
Lol what kind of madness is this? AO is not that gear dependent. I'll tell you what, go take a team and have them dress up in random stuff, then go do something and see how it goes. I'm pretty sure you'll be heavily surprised. You realise we used to do Beast raids wearing RK armor and assortet bits and bobs of SL gear because there wasn't any AI armor. People actually equipped the Beast armor sets for the bonuses.
It's like today, people just want to skip to whatever is the newest. Oh, you want to do Dustbrigade raids, but you're feeling a bit too gimp? Well, go do a few beast raids, raid some city aliens a while, and get some of those other nice bits of gear that are very easy to come by. Build Tier armor. Go to BS a little or buy some VP from the store, and get yourself some OFAB armor. There's like a billion possibilities for gearing up, and you think that the ONLY way to get it is to ... buy it from the people who already have it because they are the only ones who can get it because they have it? How did they get it in the first place then, if you can't get it without having it?
Seriously. As a casual player, you should enjoy having so much content available to you. Instead, you want to just skip it all and go straight for ... the place that I'm at. Where you have everything and have been forced into a state of casual because there's no longer anything to get and that you have everything in the game except for some stuff that you don't really care for.
AO is a social game. You must be able to make friends. Without friends, you're just better off not playing AO, because it's a frustrating experience as it was not built to support solo play. That you CAN grind money and buy most of the stuff from players is just sort of a benefit to those who for whatever reason think that horrible singleplayer games are great.