Lul, agreed with the poster above me quoting you. Nobody who collects 0.5 doesnt care about neckbeards giggling at your gear or atleast shouldnt. You can always just not play with people who are toxic like that. Not everyone is gonna care about your optimized 15 min speed runs etc. There is other types of players in the game who enjoy the game than minmaxers and overcompensators even tho usually they think there arent and shouldnt be.
That is a fair point. Though its still unfortunate that those sets are for the most part, useless. Will some people collect them? Sure. Everyone will play the game the way THEY want to play it. But if they (the sets) were valuable, more people would collect them. That would be better for the game. That would be more authentic. A lot of unfortunate players who aren't aware of the meta, may actually collect the set for performance reasons and be met with the startling realization that their set is garbage.
What really bothers me is how much effort went into designing the sets, their placement around the world and the adventure that was associated with collecting them... Most of that content is just useless (from a performance/efficiency standpoint). For most players who would love to collect their sets (me included), I simply wont be able to justify the investment of time for a set that I wont be wearing.
what would we have to remove from the game, or at least kick down to a later phase of content, to make T0 and T0.5 sets useful?