Quite frankly if I lost all of my looms or someone decided to make everyone have a lvl 35 build This would cause me to never play again.
Disclaimer I am an entitled whiny cunt and I earned my shit removing my shit would lead to me and like-minded players never looking at cRPG again lol If this is the course of action you want then, by all means, go for it. I'm just a balancer I'm quite sure I won't be missed at all.
maybe some partial wipe would be most ideal. The day the market was implemented was the day gold and looms started to not make sense. I remember when I was the only dumbass with a +3 stick and it was because people had to actually retire and most wouldn't waste looms on such a weapon.
Maybe wipe looms and give people 1 lp for each gen they have? which would practically only harm people that only earned their looms via gold. This would more than half my current loom pool I have and maybe an entire gold wipe is in question to make gold relevant again? fuck if ik. A wipe might only hurt more than you intend.
I only said "give all level 35's" because it wouldn't bother me to give the same footing to others esp new players who will never close the gap, as long as I dont have to regrind it all out again. I dont really care about my loomed items, I care about the extra att/skill points.
My main Asheram is lvl 34 with 200mill xp to lvl 35, he is also 61 gens, so if they use your suggestion I would still have 61 loompoints for him, 25 loompoints for Skillless who is 25 gens, 17 loompoints for Warclock and 17 loompoints for Runs with Scissors, that would make the total 120 lp that makes 40 mw items. Currently I have 49 mw items and 14 unused loompoints.
So if this theoretical way of the wipe happened I would only lose 9 mw items and 14 unused loompoints but I would still quit the game and never look at it again if I had to regrind out levels again esp in the current system. If this was still pod and level 35 was still the retirement level then yeah I would still play even if all was wiped and no looms for gens were given because I had fun at the lvl 34 stage that leads up to the lvl 35 retirement level. I cant say that I have the same amount of fun at the current lvl 30 stage that leads up to the lvl 31 retirement lvl, Dead_Wight is at that stage- lvl 30 with 0 loomed items.