Testing the new update in PTR and I am very worried.
You can only upgrade a 600 piece of gear, so if you have a 599 Firestaff with enchanted and keen for example, it’s worthless in the next patch. However, if said item rolled at 600 with some awful perk-like kind then congratulations, it’s is now eligible to be upgraded to 625.
This is not only very concerning for crafters as if this remains the way it is, 99% of your crafts will be worthless but it is also concerning for non-crafters as unless you are in a company that owns everfall or windsward etc, you won’t really be able to craft even ‘decent’ gear, as the cost needed just to keep rolling until you get 1 decent legendary just doesn’t seem a smart way to spend money.
I really think this change needs to be amended to at least 595 gear able to be upgraded.
Let me just say, I am all for having GS increases in the future (even now). Except either make it so all gear is now old news and we grind for new higher gear or make it so all the high-end gear can be upgraded, not just those legendary
I JUST made a post about how hard it is to get BIS gear. I literally don’t have one piece of it after 900 hours.
This makes it even worse. I’m depressed. I don’t want to play PvE simulator. I want to play PvP. I guess this game just isn’t for me right now.
I have what I would class some next to BIS items. For example, I have a 599 health and divine amulet, the next patch this is now worthless. However, if it rolled 1 GS higher with an awful perk it would be good to go? Nah this doesn’t seem right.
Take for example any piece of gear 590-599 with 2 very good perks. If they were to allow to upgrade them to 600, they would become legendary and get the extra perk (good or bad). This would allow the creation of guaranteed legendary gear with 2 very good perks. I wouldn’t mind for this, but given how scarce legendary gear with good perks is, i don’t see it happen.
Maybe the solution would be to let us upgrade that purple piece of bis gear from say 590 to 625 but it will only become legendary at 625
This needs to be infinitely bumped, I totally agree. A sub 600 needs to be able to be upgraded if they are implementing this. Give it a random perk at 600 and go from there, easy
more grind , on top of grind with some grind and some sweet rng on rng on rng , Can any1 who wanted a GS incease 3 months into the game raise a hand ? this is fking hillarious . You have stats of your own game or what ? tell me % of active playerbase that has full 600 bis gear and that they are the only bored ones i guess and thats who u target to entertain ? what , the actual . fuck .
i suppose itll still be viable to have gear thats high gear score but not over 600, but it wont considered “the best” the difference from someone in 625 gear score gear to 590 prob will only be a couple %. I do agree though thats its not fair an should be amended that any gear over 590 (the current expertise cap) should be able to be upgraded to give a fair chance to everyone.
Even let us upgrade them and they never become legendary. It’s just the fact if it was 1 GS higher and had an awful third perk it would be eligible just seems like a really strange cherry-pick.
I jump on this train aswell. Every gear below 600 is devalued. Perhaps I will mass craft shitty 600 gear to make good money until AGS change it, because they will change that in some way.
Agreed, my dreadful legendaries have sold overnight thanks to this awful change. However, the BIS 599 purple crafts will be very hard to shift for decent money.
Maybe there is a silver line here with expertise being capped at 600, maybe this means we might get a lot more legendary drops. But it still adds a lot of grinding. I just got all my armor slots to 590 but no weapon is capped after more than 400 hours played. It just feels demoralizing knowing i have to start grinding again for expertise.
If they really want to add a new gearing system, this umbral shard could have been used to upgrade 590 to 600 for now. Then when a new expansion, with new land mass and new dungeons is being added, expand the umbral shard to the system is being presented now.