for the story, these days, there are plenty Streamer/Youtuber going on with it so i'll just watch those. hah!

so background info

the 3 playable factions are

The Dragon
http://crygaia.net/wiki/Dragon

The Illuminati
http://crygaia.net/wiki/Illuminati

The Templars
http://crygaia.net/wiki/Templars

for me personally there is no interest in the Dragons were as i like the idea of the Templars (even when playing assassins creed i was thinking why do they have to be the bad guys    ) but based on what ive read on the lore of TSW im most likely going to be Illuminati, if i was Templar there would be no way (in my toons mind) for me to reach any kind of compromise with the things that live in the dark places of the world were as if im Illuminati i can be ""i don't have to kill you as long as i can control you"" and that sounds a lot more fun that ""you must be purged at all cost"" (ok that sounds fun too, i think im showing my 40Kwitch hunters side)

so what faction do you guys think you'll be joining?

CWR

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Very much this.  I actually liked Tom when he was just quiet and hung out on a beach.

There is an (anime) God!

But screw it , i am waiting for Planetside2.

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Khellendross wrote:

The gear thing is a pet peeve of mine and I'll probably talk about that some when/if I do anything about the armor. My biggest complain is how inaccessible it makes PVP, but I do think Conquest is on a different system. So thats a very good thing.

Mine too.  1.7 made improvements but still not a big fan of prestige ranks in general but when you have gear progression as emphasis for PVE combat they unfortunately need pvp gear progression or raiders would dominate in warfronts.

Well if it was just gear. You would have to institute a normalization system. Its not to hard to do, in fact Rift already has that capability. I wouldn't be entirely shocked if they do that for the expansion but I doubt we will see that sort of change in a regular update because you almost need a raise in the level cap to "reset" the game to an even plane.

Here is what I would do in the expansion. Raise the cap to 60 (why 60? Well it looks like they have 6 zones planned for the expansion, so you could do 2 levels per zone for 5 zones and a final zone for max level). Everyone is on a even playing field at that point.

Take the top level of gear availabe. This is your baseline. When a player zones into a warfront they are given those baseline stats based on their current spec type (healer, dps, tank) for their class. In addition when in a warfront players are granted 10% more HP, and 30% damage reduction. AOE damage is reduced by 15% and Healing Effectiveness by 15%.

Prestige ranks would still remain as they serve as a way to add to the pvp attunement tree and I would also introduce a Prestige rank tree. Similar to the Realm Rank abilities used in DAOC most of the passives would be very minor, and the stronger abilities would be costly and on a long cooldown such so that they may only be usable once in a match. In addition there can still be cosmetic PVP gear purchasable and unlockable with PVP ranks.

I think the above would give a much more skill based and fair pvp to Rift, not to mention that new players wouldn't feel like they have a impossible climb to become relevant.