anyone who has played several other MMOs will probably already hav an idea about this suggestion as it’s not a new concept.
problem
So you’ve leveled your first (or second) character to 80 and you’re thinking about levelling up others, but you don’t want to wear the mismatched different armor parts while levelling, or don’t want to feel forced into specific events you don’t like in order to grind new armor to not feel undergeared?
solution
other MMOs have the solution, Scaling Armor, a special kind of scaling armor that changes stats to be equal to decent/high (but not highest) equivalent gear of your level, this means that you can level up without the constant thought of “am i undergeared?” or “awww, i’m having fun here but i need to go to that other area i don’t like to get new pants!”
(it would be account bound)
cost
This gear is usually acquired at Exotic (or higher) equivalent difficulty/price by the players main character at higher levels (to avoid people using a single armor set on their first playthrough).
the pros of Scaling Armor:
encourages alting, for Anet this means peoples continued play!
helps avoid mandatory constant geargrinds, giving players supreme freedom.
you could transmute it to look like your favourite armor, making players feel unique.
you can play WvW with the armor scaling to “decent” 80 gear, giving people the option to level alts in wvw without feeling like cannonfodder.
the cons of Scaling Armor
with the removal of mandatory gear grinding people will avoid parts of the game that they don’t like but would usually feel obliged to do for gear, this could cause certain events to be less populated. (but the more fun ones would see an increased population).
selling pre 80 armor on trading post would be more difficult as more people would not want to buy armor they will level out of.
thanks!
(edited by Liewec.2896)