Originally Posted by
hoticehunter
I disagree. For new players, I feel like there's a decent enough progression to the game. And that's get some decent epics, upgrade those. Do a few T50 "pushes" (if you want to call T50 a push) to get some better epics, then save up your gems and start doing some raids, whether those raids are T30 or T10, whatever.
Dragonforged is just a title. Total stats are the thing that matters. Top tier epic+ are just as good as bottom tier DFA, some are even better than DFA. There was an event a few weeks back where Gunslinger+ was the T50 and Astra was the T30. The thing is though that Gunslinger had more total stats than Astral after factoring in guild bonuses. It was stupid. Nobody should have been trying to go T30 that event.
Honestly, if I had the choice between a 4800 stat epic and a 5000 stat DFA, I'd go with the epic every time because I know that epic is going to be maxed. DFA are such an incredible pain in the ass to max. Especially those last 5 levels.
If GREE would let us combine to get Molten Robes, I'd do everything I could to get those, sure. But that's not gonna happen. They're gonna let us combine to get Astral Array or Darkscale Battlegear. Nobody should want those.