Shouldn't the way to improve the power available to players be by extending the higher level game? Sure, we'd need more areas/mobs/stuff in general but it is doable right?
For me, autocrits were the great equalizer - no matter who you were autocrits were the be-all-end-all of you. That being said, what if autocrits were reformatted to ignore a certain amount of armour rather than completely ignore all defenses? So instead of you swing your sword, they dodge, you get your plasma IK autocrit and they die... you have to connect with your blow, and then the autocrits are limited in the scope of what they can do - so no IKs, stuns > X are reduced to X, special effects don't happen (ie, no drop all), etc? Then you'd still be able to have an autocrit that would make you feel like you had a chance against the big bad so-and-so, and it would in some cases give you a real chance to do real damage, but wouldn't be as be-all-end-all as previous.
