Why Are There Gold Items?

Uhmm why are there gold items? Ever since Deldrimore's War Camp was created nothing but green items have been added to the game so why dont you take out all of the gold items from fow and add more green items that are worth 5k each? Then I can spend 2 hours farming and make 4k instead of 6k?

Sarcasm? Golds are superior to greens in many ways. Being rarer, they give you the feeling of having a unique item. They're moddable, they might have a lower req, they might have better stats (I'm thinking about shields). And you can get every skin there's ingame.

green weapons are a "shortcut" to perfect modded items with a decent requirement.

While they are widely available, usually at affordable prices, they cannot be modded, not salvaged, and always have the same weaponskin. Gold weapons however can come in any skin, can be modded just the way you want it, and can come in any requirement (for max dmg it ranges from 7 to 13 though).

Greens are a shortcut, golds are for people that want more options on looks, stats, ...

i used think greens were cool.. experience taught me golds were way better, then recently I discovered how awesome collectors weapons are!

generally Greens will be a common and cheap version of getting good stats and probably a good skin to boot, best thing about greens is you don't have to fork out stupid amounts say for a 15^50 Axe (Razorstone is what 30k now?)

greens r the good cheap stuff
gold is the rarest and coolest thou

you cant have req 7,8,10,11,12,13 weapons on a green. you cant mod green weapons. green weapons dont have any skin. No green crystalline is tehre? dwarven? serpent? Useless thread.

Now think of the definition of the word "rare". As long as there are greens and golds, golds will always be rarer. Greens aren't always the way you want them to be because each different green has its own mods and cannot be changed. Golds will always be superior to greens and their prices will always be higher. Imagine if there weren't any "rare items".

Gold items can be the most versatile but a chance for wanted modifiers is very rare. They also have skins which don't exist as greens. Couple examples:

Gold eternal shield

16 armor, req 8 strength or tactics
-2 physical while in a stance
-2 physical while enchanted

Gold artifacts

+12, req 8 death magic
+1 death magic (chance: 20%)
Halves skill recharge of death magic spells (chance: 20%)

+12, req 8 curse magic
+15 energy, -1 energy regeneration
Halves skill recharge of curse magic spells (chance: 20%)

Gold wand

11-22 dmg, req 8
+5 energy while above 50% health
+15 energy, -1 energy regeneration

As far as I know, these can only exist as rare gold drops.

In my opinion, greens are put in the game to cater to casual players who don't have the time to farm for gold items, and gold items are for more hardcore PvE players who are "perfectionists"