I think your system overall makes the most sense because how do they proceed from here??
If only 600 can go to 625. Then how do they bump it again? months down the road (hopefully) you would need to first get a 600, then umbral upgrade to 625 and THEN do something else?
They really need to start thinking about the future more the whole system is whacked. They are going to keep adding imaginary items to the game to keep this weird ball rolling.
Poor development process IMO
no dude. use ur brain⌠it will be horrible and destroy entirely progression.
u gonna buy something 550 and raise it until the end?
Well, it would be still 2 perks items. Because legendary is only for 600 GS.
So it wont affect top tier items.
What about items like âputrid fishboneâ or faction gear? Umbral shards could be a great horizontal system that allows you to progress via upgrades. I think 500-599 would be great 
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agree
+1!
Iâm still having named ring tier IV that droped in Depths with good stats and I want the option to upgrade it. That would be nice. Or winter merch, why not? I want to be able to upgrade any tier item with good stats.
I stand by my statement. Putrid Fishbone is a great example. It drops at the lower GS much more frequently because of the type of mob itâs on (a level 60 with less than 2k health). So unless the devs put it on a harder mob itâs working as expected I guess? Shortcutting it to 625 with umbrals instead of going out and fighting a harder mob to get a better chance of a higher GS rapier seems counter to rewarding people for harder content.
As a 595-600 weaponsmither, I will be closing my operations. It is not worth the time to try and craft a 600 on a 1/6 chance and have the other 5/6 rolls salvaged for 3 ori ingots (from 15k in mats on my server).
When you can get you expertise to 600 and farm dungeons for a small easy profit AND more 600 drops.
RIP crafting. Was the best crafting system but keeps getting shat on.
I was about to open a thread for this and saw this post.
I donât understand why would they make the umbarl shards to be upgraded only from 600 GS. So if I got god tier Great Axe with good perks and attribute but with 598 GS. So this axe is salvage kind ??
BUMP.
AGS please respond to our concerns.
My opinion:
Give a Option to Upgrade from 599 to 600, just this one gs not 598.
Than make it legendary.
BUT
The things you need to get this one gs to transform to legendary, should not be tradeble !!!
So no big companie could buy this, like guys who have everfall ore something
Agree
Umbral system wouldnât necessarily be short cutting though⌠It could be a system that offers an alternative line to progression. It could be as grindy as they want. It could take a month of grinding to earn enough shards to upgrade to 600. Which would probably be in line with levelling expertise. Having different ways of achieving gear is a good thing IMO. At the moment progression is still pretty bottle necked. This gives players more choices in gearing up. Iâm not proposing short cuts.
I am afraid that this will harm crafters a lot if this can be done with every T5.
It should be restricted to 590+ so those items still keep their value for the costs it took to create them.
Now this⌠THIS is Pod Racing.
Yes, donât exclude newer players from it. Wrap everyone up in the same warm blanket. Actually put everyone at the starting line here. (well, provided itâs 500)
It would be so bad. Markets that are already stagnant would be completely gone, no one wanted to buy goods, they would raise their stocks. I hope Ags doesnât do anything like that.
The market is bad because items do not decay or need crafters to be repaired.
It was crystal clear that the GS needs to be raised again and again to keep the demand up.
Even this new system is bad because at some time in the future people will have their gear and only raise it with Umbral instead of buying new stuff.
I guess they are planing to prevent this by giving upgrades through crafting but if no one buys it I am not sure if it is worth to raise your own GS by crafting expensive stuff.
Completely disagree