I feel Hiram gear should be implemented into the game NOT removed. Now before you go blowing me out, Think about it! How many of you posting here complain in game, at forums, on discord, ect about there being a lack of pvp?! The answer: MOST of you! The introduction of hiram gear will bring the possibility to obtain fairly decent gear that is easy to farm. Meaning - Those that dont have endless hours of time to sit and play, and grind gold, or try to enjoy other aspects of the game, will be able to obtain this gear, and grade it accordingly, easily, thus bringing the potential chance for MORE pvp. Will everyone do this? Of course not, you still have your die hard farmers! But pvp will increase as these players that do farm it, advance! I do not however agree with how Hiram gear was utilized to wreck obsidian gear in other places! my opinion on that will be listed later.
Erenor gear I disagree with this nerf that Erenor gear received. I am sorry but if ANYONE is going to take the time, and GOLD to make decent Erenor gear then YES it should be a little more OP than any other gear, because of the expense it takes to do so. Sorry if that offends you, but thats my opinion (you get what you pay for). For those of you not familiar with erenor gear, erenor gear is highly expensive to make and grade.
Now the nerf did not happen in 4.5 it actually happened in 4.0. This needs to be corrected in 4.5!
Obsidian gear Needs to be slightly better than Hiram but not equal to Erenor. As i said previously, there are ALOT of players that went down the path of obsidian, and allowing Hiram gear to supersede Obsidian will kill it for MANY players. They already have to deal with erenor gear being more OP than obsidain, why double nuke them?! THERE MUST BE an advantage to making obsidian gear vs. Hiram! Also reduce the amount of mats it takes to make obsidian gear as well. The amount of Abyssal crystals it now takes (4.0) to advance obsidian gear is ridiculous! Not all players can sit and grind those things in just a few days. For some players it takes months! Whether it be real life related or just lack of interest to grind like that, there are players that do not want to spend that much time in dungeons. Fix it please!!
Please make sure obsidian gear remains viable so that current players that have spent endless hours farming obsidian mats, grinding that gear, and fighting the ridiculous regrade system for obsidian, did not do so in vain! Personally I am not a fan of obsidian gear because of this, but there are a lot of players here that did it, this should not be overlooked.
I feel the trading system (Trade packs) needs to be left alone as well. Not sure if the nerf began in 4.5, but i do know it happened! Trade packs are a VERY important and often used gold making system, LEAVE IT ALONE!! No i am not an avid pack runner, but here is my reasoning. You will not only be clipping the ones actually running the packs, but you will be clipping a VERY important part of the pvp system itself. How many players pray on pack runners? By land or by sea, many of you do it! So nerfing this system will clip the game in more ways then one.
Not sure if this happened in 4.5 - PLEASE DO NOT put that reject of a system in, where larder packs have a timer on them. This may just be a rumor i heard, or that it happened in 4.5, but what this system did is, once you pulled up a larder pack, you had "X" amount of minutes to turn it in or it started depreciating in value. THIS IS JUST RIDICULOUS!! Again i am not 100% sure this actually happened, but if it did, PLEASE DO NOT DO IT!!
As for the auction house, PLEASE do not implement that the system were people can buy/post partial stacks on the auction house. This will DESTROY the auction house competition. Let me explain. You have these players that absolutely insist on destroying auction house prices (they find it funny), or players that refuse to pay full price! So they post a large stack of an item on the auction house for an extremely low price driving prices down. Now seeing that people can buy partial stacks, players will just buy from that extremely low prices stack, instead of paying actual prices, which in return, anyone that is trying to sell an item now is FORCED to underbid that price, thus prices will crash!
From personal experience, i left at patch 4.5 because the changes made to the game were just sickening! I am curious to see what happens on rage at that point. So far the dev team has done a fairly decent job of making sure we get what we want and i am sure they will listen to what people are saying, and not just the majority, the little guys to! 4.5 and above wrecked it for many players.
These are just some of the things i have seen and/or heard about when it comes to patch 4.5 and above. I am sorry if my opinion offends some, but this is just how i see it! I am curious and kind of excited to see how 4.5 and above plays out on Rage.