Can anyone solve me regarding understanding gear?

[Mike JezZ]

Hey guys.

There's lot of talk about the gear. Do you progress with it? Do you not?

ATM I cannot see the big difference with my blue ilevel 300 assault rifle and my starter rifle. Stats are allmost identical. It does a little more damage, but shoots slower so I assume it does around the same amount of damage per second.

However, I can somewhat feel i get stronger. Is there some sort of hidden stats boost?

I know it is not because of my perks. Because my perks are about cloaking and I haven't got any new damage increase perks since my last ones.

I felt some increase in damage since I reached some higher ego.

But why?

Also. Whats the difference between a ego 0 and a ego xxx item? AR iLevel 0 and AR iLevel 300 has allmost same stats.

[dirtyklingon]

subtype base damage is the same.

ie type (AR) > subtype (burst)

then higher grades have a higher chance of having more baked in bonuses. and more mod slots unlocked without any work.

as well there's an elmental proc component on some weapons which does a big burst when it procs, or w/e the proc element does. like fire is a dot i think.

otherwise progresion is horizontal. a level 200 orange will have more or less equal stat budget to a level 1000 orange of the same subtype.

[Mike JezZ]

So all weapons will have the same stats.

The difference is what synergies it has, and what you can attach.

But the attachments itself is not that weapon changing either.

GW2 bored me because of Horizontal progression. This is a little bit sad.

At least the PvP is more fun.

[dirtyklingon]

So all weapons will have the same stats.

The difference is what synergies it has, and what you can attach.

But the attachments itself is not that weapon changing either.

GW2 bored me because of Horizontal progression. This is a little bit sad.

At least the PvP is more fun.

gw2's progression before the ascended patch was far more vertical than this game.

[Mike JezZ]

So... There's a chance that ego 5000 gear has the exact same stats as ego --- ?

[Cpt Blud]

It can have different bonuses, and bonus synergies. Thats where the progression is. Synergising your perks with your weapon. Not that many people have gotten around to messing with synergies yet, so people assume 'all guns are the same'. Its a little under the radar.