Make Darklight Gear purchasable again!

[Surian]

It now only drops from Dungeons and has no other way to obtain. Due to the horribly random nature of drops, a lot of pieces barely ever show up.

They had some truly unique looks to them, and some of the accessories were a valuable bridge between ilvl55 drops and the ilvl90 myth items. It would be great if we had another way to obtain these.

Myth tomes or Seals would be perfect. Heck, even pure raw gil would do.

[Surian]

Had a bit of a shock earlier when a new player went "This is my first time here" in The Praetorium. While he was wearing partial Myth gear and Lv.40-45 pieces in the other slots since there was nothing in between anymore.

Especially now that you can DYE the darklight gear, simply removing it and making people go from ilvl.40 to ilvl90 with barely anything in between is weird and terrible. Makes no sense.

We can exchange Darklight for seals now. Let us buy it from them as well with for example Seals or a miniscule amount of Myth tomes from the same npc's since they have a massive surplus of gear from everyone turning it in to them.

[Cyrusskorrey]

I agree whole heartedly with this. i recently made a new chracter and did the level climb,
im getting level 90 and 80 gear before i even see a single piece of DL gear drop.

a personal pet peeve with the way Darklight armor even drops in the dungeons is that it shares a chest with
crafting items. so you can do runs and never even see a single piece of DL.

also today i was yelled at by another player because my foot gear is level 55 while the rest of my gear is 80 and 90.

My request is if you are going to leave DL gear in dungeons and with crafting chests, then you need to bring back
philosopphy tombs so people dont waste their time farming a single run for a piece of gear that might not even drop.
ive been doing the 3 new duneons and have YET to see a single piece of DL gear for Healer drop.

content wasted. the only way DL is any good now is if you are farming dungeons on a main and the DL you greed is
for a 2nd job.

[Cyrusskorrey]

take it out of crafting chests and give it its own, or just give us back philosophy and make it purchasable again.

[WhitemageSerenia]

I actually agree myself. I recently turned in my Darklight Gear for healer since it was obsoleted, not knowing that it was going to be dye-able any time soon, so now that it *IS* Dye-able I find myself trying to get the tights again and they never show up. I've had this problem with the "expert" dungeons in general, considering the armor seems SUPER rare. I've never even seen the Pilgrim's Robe drop at all. But I've seen PLENTY of Lime Sulfur cooking sherry coke beastkin blood ect ect ect.
Personally I think the chests in that dungeon need to be reworked, I think the boss drop chests should ALWAYS be armor, and the side chests (the ones that drop the darklight accessories) should be the ones that can drop the craftables.

Heck, maybe even let the darklight accessories be random mob drops or something, Iunno. The way its set up right now, its seems really hard for a player to gear up. i70 just... seems obsolete now given how easy it is to get loot in CT (Unless the teams royally suck... which is pretty par for the course ><)

[ruskie]

They should just adjust it so that both philo mats and dl gear drop in the same chest.

[Grifstar]

I'm a little on the fence. On one hand I did forget how hard it was to do post/endgame from scratch (thanks to alts and what not), but at the same time I remember it even still it used to be longer and even stressful than it is now. Hell, it's possible to even get the first part of the relic quest done with only a ilvl60s-ish now, thanks to the roulettes and high lvl players in them. That sort of thing was practically unheard of without a good FC. Although that still means you should have at least a few Darklight-esque pieces, which if RNG hates you, really sucks.

I definitely wouldn't mind seeing Darklight come back as super cheap myth items though. Honestly with the introduction of brand new (and quite fancy) lvl 70 in the patch anyway, it does seem a little unnecessary. Keep the new stuff as dungeon drops, they're super nice should you happen to get one early on; but sometimes there's always that one piece of equipment you just want to replace that you can't find anywhere.

Crafting materials though I don't mind too much because I hated having to use tomes on those so drops are convenient |D;. Maybe make those the normal chests, and keep the boss chests for gear.