Asheras wrote on Sep 3
rd, 2019 at 6:18pm:
You clearly aren't actually playing on the HC server.
That's funny because that's exactly what I was thinking about you based on your posts.
Anyone who's spent more than 30 minutes on the HC server knows good and well that the majority of the death announcements are for sub level 10 toons. Guess where your supposedly minor p2w boosts provide the most benefit?
The benefits of the p2w stuff have a much more significant impact in the lower heroic levels where the gear is shit and where toons don't have access to T5 enhancements and enough points to fill them.
Once you start moving past the level 10-12 mark, the p2w stuff hits an increasing point of diminishing returns because it gets eclipsed by named gear, reaper points, T5 enhancements, better spells, etc., but as the death announcements on the HC server show, a lot of people struggle in getting past level 10ish, so those benefits could be significant.
And I say this even as someone who's used a small amount of p2w on the HC server. I bought a heavy fort aug from the NPC with astral shards and a cake when I went unconscious during an earthgrab while soloing at level 8 or so.
The cake is an excellent case in point. Without that cake, there was a >95% chance the toon would have died. With the p2w cake, the toon lived. So yes, even just a simple p2w siberys cake can make the difference between living or dying.