Quote Originally Posted by gripply View Post
Why does the existence of a cash option = a cash grab in the minds of some players? Is it the youngest players who think this? The ones who need permission to spend anything? FYI I haven't spent a penny on Mithril to create my new LI's, and they're better than my old ones. You're missing something great.

Edit: They're not even maxed, they're still better than my old ones.

Edit 2: You're missing out... you're missing ouuut! :P
To the extent that that's true now, it doesn't mean it will carry forward that way. Content typically gets balanced against the best available.

When they introduced trait trees with the Helm's Deep, there was a lot of hate. Part of the way they mitigated the hate was by making DPS, pretty much across the classes, OP relative to mobs. As a hunter, being squishy didn't really matter so much because mobs could easily be mowed down before they could come close, even if they couldn't be / you failed to pull them one-at-a-time. But guess what, afterwards it was deemed that DPS was OP, and mobs needed to be buffed. Oh, and then partial BPE was changed such that finesse couldn't completely mitigate the effects, because that "made more sense". Suddenly it wasn't easy / possible to mow down all the mobs before they got to a squishy hunter.

So yeah, your less than max new system LI may be more powerful than your old ones at point in time, however, being less than max might not be so great going forward.