Anzak wrote:Ok lets take a step back here.1) Treasured weapons do not hit epic mobs. So now you can't get a rare crafted weapon and fight raid mobs.2) While SOE will not openly admit there is a difference in quality level of gear. 100 Mit on fabled gives much more than 100 Mit on treasured. So not only will you be down close to 500 mit from T6 fabled to T7 treasured you will also lose some hidden amount. This will make even started raids nearly impossible.3) Ok maybe not trash mobs but low end named mobs. I have a ring with greater than +15 to 2 stats +75 HP and +70 power and a few resists on it. Since the stats are key stats this makes the ring 100 times better than even the rare crafted rings. Sure I can get more on the stats with the rings or more on the resists but to get a good balance of both I'm better off with a treasured ring that was junk loot of a heroic named mob. Now a boss from and instance or the result of a ring event maybe but I would still expect that the good loot be atleast legendary.4) SOE has stated that they want you to be in T6 fabled to raid T7 low end content. This is why T7 crafted needs to be on par with T6 fabled. Like I said I would love it to be close if not the same stat wise. But level the effects on the fabled where the crafted has none. This gives the edge to the fabled but makes crafted desireable to more casual raiders who have a mix of fabled and legendary.5) Trade off. Again SOE seems to think that trade offs are important to casual players yet raiders don't need to make trade offs. Fabled gear has a nice all around stats and resists yet crafted is stuck with one or the other. Again get to the more casual raider who has a mix of fabled and crafted and you will see that for heroic mobs even instance boss the fabled more than makes up for anything you need to make the encounter easy. There is no point to trade off at that level because the mobs are outright too easy to worry about changing things around. Oh and just another point. I picked up the vendor loot off one of the named birds in the Nest. The Kettle something or other pot helm thing. Yeah it sucks it is only treasured the resists are not that great and the stats are a bit weak but it has 377 Mit with +66 to all melee damage. Which puts it at 30 more Mit that my Immovable Barbute. So I give up 18 HP and a bit in resists to get 20 Power and 30 mit. Sure there is a trade off there but wait. This was the trash vendor loot from that mob. The legendary item was something else. This is just a treasured item that blows away T6 and T7 crafted as well as the low end T6 fabled. Now the higher T6 fabled helms put this to shame but again for a casual raider you are looking at a mix of gear as some of that might be instance fabled which is just slightly better then rare crafted.Right now the crafted gear is worthless because not only is the previous tier better but it is extremely easy to get good gear from easy drops. Make a run into the sanctum of the scaleborn and tell me that a person completely decked out in T7 rare crafted could not replace most if not all their gear in a matter of a few hours as the pushed down to the lower levels. Why would I want to pay 4 plat for an item that an hour later will be worthless. Sure I can't predict the drops but I would expect that at 62 I would be hard pressed to find something better than rare crafted yet here I am looking at drops that put T7 rare crafted to shame with out even trying to look for these items.
1) Actually, treasured weapons can now hit epic mobs.2) No, this is not true. The problem lies in the whole level-mitigation problem, that STILL hasn't been fixed. And actually 323 mitigation on treasured T6 gear gave MORE mitigation % than 323 mitigation on T5 Fabled. See a problem there? I do.3) Imbued rings were overpowered, and they needed to take a hit, now they're better off.4) Well, you can raid T7 with T6 fabled, or farm T7 legendary drops that are equivalent to T6 Fabled to do it. The dragons in Palace of the Awakened drop 2 sets of Tank gear, 1 for plate, 1 for leather, there's your gear go get it, then start raiding T7, or just go back and raid T6 to get fabled up at level 70 to do T7 raids.5) So, you have a trade-off, live with it, you have to give up something to get something else. Crafted gear is nice if you aren't tanking and don't care about your resists.