Waist Armour or accessory

[Snugglebutt]

In the past waist was not counted as an accessory so people can be legitimately confused if they are long time players who are/were used to how it has been for a long time prior to this current change. This is as someone else said the first time it is counted as an accessory not an armour piece from what I remember. Left side was always armour in the past, right side always accessories. I too fell victim to this change and like the OP also first thought this is a glitch or bug because waist has always been counted as left side armour piece in the past.

[UBERHAXED]

In the past waist was not counted as an accessory so people can be legitimately confused if they are long time players who are/were used to how it has been for a long time prior to this current change. This is as someone else said the first time it is counted as an accessory not an armour piece from what I remember. Left side was always armour in the past, right side always accessories. I too fell victim to this change.

Even now, waist is not counted as an accessory. The dev team was giving the courtesy of having the waist upgradable with a lower cost item. Since waist pieces have the same main stats as accessories and all. But yeah, you could have just looked at the item required to upgrade. It's not like they "tricked" anyone by showing that it needed one item but actually needed another. 100% user error.

[Snugglebutt]

You know what I meant, treated as an accessory in upgrading.

It does not matter if SE changed it to be more beneficial to the players who wish to upgrade it for less. The fact remains it can be confusing for people who have always in the past had to upgrade waist items using armour components not accessory components. Perhaps you could show some understanding in why it might be confusing especially since the explanation for why it could be confusing to some is simple to understand and legitimate.

I am not having a go at SE for the change, I do not even dislike the change but I do very much understand why it would be confusing and create issues for those used to how it has always been in the past even if I had not fallen prey to it myself.

Unfortunately I did fall prey to it but I am not whining about that, I am just saying why some of us are making the mistake and the mistake is one with a legitimate reason behind it. I am not asking SE to replace items or change it back but I do think this is going to be a common occurrence for quite some time until people are used to a new way of handling a single piece of left side armour that now requires a (previously right side) accessory upgrade item to upgrade.