Originally Posted by
kiramon
Im not sure its the gear so much as it is the disparity between the gear levels.
The scaling is WHACK - just sim a character at 208 vs 220. For 12 item levels you can see the scaling goes whack towards the upper end. It's not linear, and you end up with someone with almost 50% more dps from 12 ilvls. When you can go afk for half a fight and be near-guaranteed to do the same or more damage than someone actually fighting with 100% uptime, it's a problem. lol And making it so it's harder to get that gear doesn't make the players who are completely unwanted because their "100%" is worth only 50% of someone with 12 higher ilvls.
It something like 4500-5000 dps for 208 vs 6000 dps for 220. That's 22dps per ilvl at 208, and 27dps per ilvl at 220 -- in actuality, they're getting 125 dps per ilvl for the last 12 ilvls. That's insane -- if the numbers werent WHACK - you'd end up with 4500 dps at 208 and 4900 dps at 220, @22dps per ilvl. Which is an increase of about 10% still, but NOO thats not enough.
You're irrelevant at 208 if youre with 220s and literally just a leech. Thats the problem with ilvl, not the fact that they are higher ilvl.