"You still have inferior gear compared with those who have fully heated gear, so if you want to be as "good" as the latter you DO have to climb it."
-.- and by how much? 20 points of damage? 30 points of extra damage? So what? And so what if you can't beat the elites in LD, the fully heating of your gear is the least of your concerns, the UVs, what about the UVs? Get them!
@Mad-wolver
"You're basically saying no one says you have to finish the game, even though the creators made it near impossible for non-payers to do so."
Plz, tell me, HOW DO YOU FINISH A MMO? MMO HAS NO ENDING, SK doesn't end with you beating vana, it doesn't end when you reach 45K prestiege, it doesn't end when you collected all the weapons and heat them all up to level 10, there will always be new stuff to do in MMO, it is how it is for a reason, we will probably never open the core (the key is inside the lab BTW, go and look for it, the Spiral Order never considered using it to open the core)
Lolz you edited your comment. Sorry about the caps. I'll behave now.