It's not just gear, all my characters BiS gear is from scenarios but I go to keep defenses because it is EXTREMELY lucrative renown farm compared to attacking, and in general has a much higher success rate. Even without siege a magus/engineer/bw/sorc and anyone in their respective party can easily pull in over 50-100k renown a defense.Lileldys wrote:In my opinion, gear is the reason nobody will fight. Best gear is from keeps, but they're too hard to take in PUG, so defence is the best option.
Live 80+ patch, you'd have 4/5 warpforged and 5/5doomflayer way before you hit those renown ranks, and a gold buyable sovereign set. (I recall my DoK having full doomflayer and 4/5 WF by rr85). Constant fighting because people needed the renown ranks(or if capped, for fun), and the best way to get renown was to fight. Be it at keeps, or in city sieges, it was the best way to get renown.
Riding the empty city sieges was poor renown compared to what you could get before anyone says something about that.
The progression right now is gear, and on live it was renown.
if you are lucky enough to be on an AoE cannon you can pull over 200k renown a defense solo (how do you think people are RR50+?)
but on attack? You gotta deal with being flanked, being constantly **** on by AoE cannons, people taking BO's and forcing you to leave, the people attacking you hide behind walls and are more spread out meaning you get way less kills, etc... and what do you get for all that? The same amount of loot as defending.
