Augmented Gear Under Minimum Stats

[Driskus]

Hey there,

Anyone else noticed how a full set of Augmented gear lands you far below the needed stats to gather HQ items on the new nodes and will require some heavy overmelded to make up the difference?

Is this standard? Seems kinda bad given the sheer time someone would spend getting these.

Scrip gear isn't meant to be the best-in-slot gear. Its a stepping stone between normal gear and melded crafted gear. Typically you'd have to get crafted accessories and the offhand and meld them a bit. The rest you have to make up for by using food. This time around its actually not bad at all, and doesn't require much overmelding on the offhand & accessories to hit 1350 perception. See the post above for an example of the melds you'd need. If you were to overmeld the offhand more you can get away with lower-end food.