Anyway I voted no to this. I liked the idea of a capped ee on weapons/charms. Think of it this way instead:

There is now a set top we on any tier. Once I have surpassed that perfect amount with proficiencies by a noticeable amount you can start to pick up items with lower than max spawn ee item with really nice sides mod combinations.

Hipothetical situation:

You have 30 sword prof. Which means at say lvl 15, you are capped at 140ee. Now a 110ee sword is much easier to buy than a 120ee lvl 15 but they are equal ee And there are also more to choose from. Some of them are likely to have some rather nice damage stats. Personally I like crit/AP a lot. As you raise your prof higher and higher you get to use lower and lower ee to get the same result but may gain some REALLY nice side mods as well and possibly even cheaper than that perfect ee sword.

Besides the only items that are truly hard to get near perfect we spawns are high level. Most people would never reach a prof level even close to enough to cap out their near mid-mq lvl gear.

inb4 1 year suspension

Your explanation is a great example... it is best to use a Lower Tier Item with a Higher Rank skill. So... let us say you have a Rank of 50 in Axes = 50% EE [getting this rank = roughly 5 years on one character] ... anyway... you have a 40% ee Axe [TierIII]... with cap, only 40% ee from your Axe Rank of 50% will ge added because of Cap level... how does this really effect game play if you are SOLO'ing or in a group of 5? let me put it simply for you... you can ONLY attack one monster per second... the damage output DOES NOT effect the speed of run either Solo'ing or in a group play.

There is only ONE (1) thing it helps you with, and that is Evil Presence killing, and with the game mechanics being as it is, if you kill those too fast, you get 0 [zero] or crap drops... nothing changes.

I should have known better then to try and ask the great almighty 22swordprof rank10beforefirstMQ god that is izParagonzi a question.
Of course my puny simpleton brain could not comprehend his wise words about tier 2 daggers vs tier 3 daggers.
Master - please forgive me. I will go forth now and spread the word. The answer to every question known to man is...

TWENTY TWO SWORD PROF!

I love you dad

it is all about the cap... not the ranking system... so... as a young one that wants to make the game more welcoming with old gamers and new people... you know for certain that
the only thing to do is continue and succeed... yup... slog it out and continue on.

So say "lord oberon"

This is my problem with it say you got 20 prof as you suggest in this thread the t2 dagger will deal

(8*.6=12.8)Min and (14*.6=22.4) Max

Knowing LS rounds down on decimals a t2 dagger with 40% ee and 20 prof will yield 14-22 damage beating the tier 3 dagger by 1 max damage.


E and after reading your rants your ONLY argument for this whole thing is your capped out on ee at low levels if you have 20 prof. What you fail to realize it you can simply 1-2 hit mobs with a t3 white items at first.. So AT LOW LEVELS YOUR PROF IS NOT RELEVANT. Now onto the big picture where prof becomes relevant. MQ items There is ONCE instance i can think of where this suggestion would be useful. And that is with GODO's 278 ee lvl 55 lightning. However only ONE of these exist so all in all your entire suggestion is crap. It affects that ONE item nobody else is even NEAR capping out on lvl 45+ items and that is the ONLY time something like this would be useful.

This post was edited by SmokeyMcPot1990 on Aug 19 2014 03:12am

its not needed, I got rank 30 in axes so for low tier axes i use lower ee on axe + mods like life str dex etc

and u cant got high lvls capped, almost impossible on HC

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The only thing I`d like to see is that u gain points in weapons for whole climb not only above your current rank lvl

This post was edited by FDSupRa on Aug 19 2014 04:37am

are you serious ? more suggestions please

Everything you have posted actually relates to this post, BUT... you chose not to look outside of the square.

Let me put it simply for you... for you or others to find a 270% ee level 55 item, it is basically non existant... SO... why fvck up yours' or any other persons Ranking [skill]?

Low level or NOT... once you put in the time and effort to skill up ranks, why... should that be nerfed [neglecting your time and effort to skill it above xxx]???

Let me take if from low levels, let me take it from drops in a full group, and let me include the fact that every character has a +10 ML and we will take 4 characters being Warlock and tanker is a Headhunter... and on top of this we make them all guild members in a guild run only... even though the suggested party may have a 15-35 ML increase in the run, they are likely to find something useful about 2% of the time... etc. [anyway... the game mech will not make better drops... everything that does drop good drops have been removed]

X% dmg return... we all know that a peron got banned for X amount of days because he/she did this constantly knowing it gave better drops including more white drops.
Flower ability run... we know this got nerfed within 2-3 months after abilities was executed.
Farming Ambush... we know this has been changed to crap drops and whites are just as bad
NMNM ... this again has been nerfed in drops because whites are so superior when you finally come across a well.
Well.... this has been placed into catacombs [randomly] to reduce the amount of profs / items you can get from it.

Note: none of the examples related to other nerfs that people have quit gaming over.

Anyway... as for topic... if you remove the MINISCULE 20% cap... you might actually make the game more versatile for those that have spent time in obtaining Profs during their time gaming.
It won't change their minds in returning to the game... but, it may make new gamers want to play more... this is just an assumption on my behalf.

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