In WildStar , the current item system is being revised, and in the new year, players may exchange their current items for the new version.
The US site mmorpg.com was invited for a major interview with Carbine and had a chat with the various departments, including the item designers. In the “Gear-Progression”, which is how players obtain better items over time, there have been some well-known difficulties, so this is now one of the biggest sticking points for the next quarterly update in early 2015.
They want to overhaul the entire loot table in the raids so that the items better fit the classes they are intended for. Veterans do not have to start all over again. There will be opportunities to exchange the “outdated” gear for the newer version. However, it will not be a one-to-one exchange – certain “currencies” or “tokens” will probably be needed. There is also talk of a vendor where items can be purchased in exchange for a currency.
At the moment, none of this is set in stone, so it may still be revised.
Mein MMO says:
This sounds quite similar to the “token” system from World of Warcraft. A while back, we wondered how WildStar would solve the problems that Vanilla-WoW once had. And it is now clear that a pattern is emerging where the same results are being achieved as Blizzard did back then: token vendors, 20-man raids, everything not being as hardcore and “eat or die” as it once was.
The item system of WildStar, where very little dropped and when something dropped it might not be the right thing due to a wrong rune arrangement, turned out to be too frustrating over time, even for the hardest players.
