gear

This week's Massively Overthinking is fully inspired by the unicorn backpack meme, which Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss tweeted out last week with the caption "stats over looks any day." You know we have to talk about this.

This weeks marks the eleventh anniversary of the launch of The Secret World. While the game is still playable (for those with existing accounts),...

Anyone looking forward to World of Warcraft patch 9.2 being playable on the game's test server in the near future should temper those expectations somewhat,...

You know what I want to be when I grow up? A boss. Not the kind that starts a business living in a car...

So, you've picked your class in Path of Exile. And now you've started to play. Huzzah! Now you get to begin your story as...

Every so often, usually when it comes to World of Warcraft, I hear what I've always thought of as the Peacock Defense for making raid...

The designers on Star Wars: The Old Republic aren't totally happy with some quirks of the Masterwork gearing system at the moment. It's too...

In the real world, walking up to someone and asking if you can put your dragons together will probably get you arrested. In OrbusVR,...

One of the most insightful comments I ever saw about Darkfall (yes, Darkfall) was that, realistically, in a game with open PvP and full...

It is possible that Revelation Online could have used a thesaurus for its latest feature, as "stripping your gear" produces a mental image that...

When you dive into Chult for Neverwinter's next expansion, you're going to be facing new threats. And what goes well with new challenges? New...

Players who logged in to Star Wars: The Old Republic after patch 5.1 and jumped right into PvP probably noticed right away that their...

When Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne launches, we will all be very tired of typing out that lengthy title...

Gear is important, even in DC Universe Online. Sure, the idea of collecting stat upgrades with equipment doesn't exactly mesh with the fiction, but...

If it's an MMO, it's going to have gear. And if there's gear, then it's going to have stats. And if there are stats,...

If you're big on endgame content in Allods Online, you probably have strong feelings about how you get geared up. You might be frustrated...

Cosmetic options are a very big part of Star Wars: The Old Republic, so adding a new cosmetic option to the game is going...

APB: Reloaded has posted a new dev blog this week all about how character wearables are designed and inserted into the game. "The character and...

The New Order hitting Allods Online is going to be changing how players acquire gear in a big way, and it's going to be...

A Massively OP commenter recently opined that "without gear progression, is a MOBA not an MMORPG," and I would really love to talk...