Thread: Gear idea for 4.0 onwards

I have seen many people complain about gear customization and unique abilities on gear since the game launched, and it has become clear that these unique abilities are not coming to the game anytime soon.

What I would like to see to remedy this problem is an augment system. This system would have an additional slot(s) in your gear window and would allow you to slot augment crystals into your character. Instead of abilities being on gear, they would be a separate entity contained within these crystals.

Equipping these crystals will give you a unique buff like:

- increased movement speed (stackable with sprint and swiftsong etc.)
- increased mount speed
- visual effects
- discounted teleports
- transmutation

and more.

This could potentially be used for battle effects as well (as people have been screaming for), but that is extreamly unlikely to happen for balance reasons and hostile PF reasons (LFG - must have doublestrike augment)

Not having these adjustments available makes me happy I don't have to deal with them. And you're right in that it would create an environment of "if you don't have this augment you can't play."

I could see augments for visual effects or non-combat bonuses like reduced teleportation fees, or a movement speed buff that is deactivated during battle, but anything that affects you in battle is going to be taken into consideration by efficiency-minded players, which will largely shut out new people from easily taking part in content, and SE seems to be firmly against anything that could potentially be a wall to new players, especially players who are new to MMOs in general.