I'm not complaining about having to farm MGP; I've already got all the buyable minions, mounts, music rolls, TT cards, etc. so I've done a fair share of MGP farming already. (That, and I did get the Garo shield.)

This post is more complaining about the inconsistency. Why call it "Emperor's New" gear and then not even bother to stick it on the same vendor that sells all the other "Emperor's New" stuff? Like I said, the Garo shield thing is not a good excuse. It is in the nature of games like this for stuff to be made easier/cheaper to obtain over time, not to be kept just as difficult/expensive as it was simply because "that's how it used to be" or whatever. The Garo stuff is old by now. It had its day.