Fire resist on gear is boring and lazy game design

If you are going to require fire resistance it should be as enchants and potions or elixirs.

Having to change out all your gear that you worked hard to obtain just to add some resistances for a single raid is horrible game design. Way to make people feel terrible about playing the game. All the gear they spend huge amounts of time farming becomes mostly useless because of arbitrary resistance requirements.

Instead you could just allow people to enchant their gear with magic to add resistances and lock them behind rep or quest lines. You can also make new potions and elixrs that people can farm.

Adding fire resistance to gear is probably the laziest and worst approach to doing this.

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I agree its annoying game design, but full bis will allow you to complete heat 2 with no issues, and heat 3 you can reach the higher values with FR aura from pallies and rotating hydraxian exalted FR trinket.

No one said you can’t complete the raids.

I said putting fire resist or any kind of resistance on gear is horrible game design.

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I liked reaistamce gear in classic

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So what. It’s still bad.

Lots of people hated it. Why would anyone want to wear a green item with resistance on it instead of their Raid gear they spent months trying to get?

It’s stupid.

Most other games allow you to add resistances to your gear you spent time farming because it’s the smart way.

This is how games operated clearly before your time.

Having stat checks isnt lazy, its gating progression behind stat walls. This is how old games designed it, and is what many of us wanted when coming to play a game based in classic.

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I never said you shouldn’t have resistances.

I specifically said you should have to ADD THEM to the gear yourself.

Learn to read.

You could just add resistance slots to gear like gems or something. Way better than replacing the entire piece of gear with a green item.

because that doesn’t happen, there’s not a single bis list that wears any green fr items and 90% of the items on those lists are from molten core

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I’m sorry you don’t understand how this works but just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s not bad.

i understand perfectly how it works

https://sixtyupgrades.com/sod/set/84i8q7WbgUrkJX6YPUzuC2

here’s the bis warrior set, notice all those green fr items? oh? hes wearing nearly full dps gear…? yeah…

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Spells that required high resistance are supposed to be non-binary, now it’s binary AND 1 shot you 100% if you go under the threshold, this is completely new and nothing the old version had.

No you don’t.

You are clueless and coping. People are crafting fire resist gear just so they can raid HL 3.

They can’t even use the pre-BIS they farmed or the HL 1 items.

It would be far FAR superior if you could just add resist to the existing pre-BIS instead of adding entirely new items JUST to add fire resist.

It’s stupid.

i guess we are just gonna deny reality in this thread huh

i have cleared hl3 and i didn’t craft a single item because you couldn’t prior to the raid release, you are just making stuff up

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No, this is bad design.

Arbitary breakpoints for participation on a stat like spell resistance is unquestionably stupid. Achieving 226 may not be difficult in practice, but is it promoting a fun gameplay experience? No, it’s not.

If T0 and T0.5 actually provided Fire Resistance on some deeper pieces, it could be better. But this isn’t the case.

You are coping. Other games allow you to ADD resistances to gear because it’s SUPERIOR game design.

Adding tons of new items no one really wants just to get fire res is stupid.

how am i “coping”, lmao.

i literally linked you the warrior dps list and it doesn’t have any greens in it and its like 90% molten core items, you are just a complainer, even when the evidence is right infront of your face you won’t even acknowledge it

sad!

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You are coping this mechanic is good when it’s horrible.

It’s bad game design.

where did i say it was good? you are inventing things now. I just told you that your arguments against it aren’t real, I didn’t share an opinion on the mechanic

You keep defending it like it’s good when it’s not defensible.

nope, didn’t defend it either, just told you that you are wrong