Patch 4.2 micro-site updated

**era1Ne** · 01-25-2018 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by Vidu

Funny that I've got an opposite view here: I'm very happy to get former raid/dungeon sets as crafted gear again. First off because that normally means its dyeable now and second off all: I've got easy means to get it now. I'm keeping several VA-pieces (aswell as pieces from all other 24-man-raids) with the thought "Maybe I want to glamour this one day..." - if I can just re-craft it, I can get rid of those!

Thats a very good point and running old content can be difficult at some point, because many people don't run it anymore. I like the decision, since some old gearsets really look great and this also helps the developers, because they don't have to create even more gearsets and especially weapons. Think about it for a second, we probably will get 2 jobs every expansion and this means going forward the amount of work, they have to do will only grow over time. Somethings got to give imo.

**RiyahArp** · 01-25-2018 11:12 PM

I can't blame them because we have 6 archetypes, and about 5 different gear sets per patch if not more: crafted, expert armor, omega armor, tome armor, pvp armor, etc. The patch cycle and content treadmill forces them to make a lot of gear, and in general I don't think its sustainable any more. At some point they are going to need to slow down content and make it last longer, because they are going to run out of shortcuts to help with this: i.e. no gear to recycle.

I think they are going to have to move to full yearly patches or something.

**jameseoakes** · 01-25-2018 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by RiyahArp

I can't blame them because we have 6 archetypes, and about 5 different gear sets per patch if not more: crafted, expert armor, omega armor, tome armor, pvp armor, etc. The patch cycle and content treadmill forces them to make a lot of gear, and in general I don't think its sustainable any more. At some point they are going to need to slow down content and make it last longer, because they are going to run out of shortcuts to help with this: i.e. no gear to recycle.

I think they are going to have to move to full yearly patches or something.

They already slow down in 4.1 which only had 2 gears sets

**enthauptet** · 01-26-2018 02:22 AM

Please make original crafted gear again! We wanted dye-able 24-player raid gear, but the gear to be dye-able and not "new" gear which is dye-able... We want more new designs again like ARR and Heavensward! This is just disappointing.

I posted a long time ago to add a second loot drop in old raids and that would be a much better solution than this. Now it once again lowers incentive to run old raids and also reduces new original content.

Regarding Zeta, I do not care too much, I imagine these are not dyeable and they don't glow so it does not matter much. I just am bummed out we are missing out on yet another set of new gear we could have gotten instead.

**Valkyrie_Lenneth** · 01-26-2018 02:24 AM

Originally Posted by enthauptet

Please make original crafted gear again! We wanted dye-able 24-player raid gear, but the gear to be dye-able and not "new" gear which is dye-able... We want more new designs again like ARR and Heavensward! This is just disappointing.

I posted a long time ago to add a second loot drop in old raids and that would be a much better solution than this. Now it once again lowers incentive to run old raids and also reduces new original content.

The i90 crafted gear was recolored versions of BrayFlox gear.

Also, they can only do so much design work. assuming what Yoshi-P said is true, it takes about a year to design and implement each gearset. We got 3 unique sets this patch, possibly 4 if Eureka has unique armor.

**enthauptet** · 01-26-2018 02:27 AM

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

The i90 crafted gear was recolored versions of BrayFlox gear.

Also, they can only do so much design work. assuming what Yoshi-P said is true, it takes about a year to design and implement each gearset. We got 3 unique sets this patch, possibly 4 if Eureka has unique armor.

Well that maybe true but it was still original ARR content at least. Now we are just borrowing from old expansions, no reason to excuse bad behaviour because it was done in the past. And Eureka isn't going to have unique armour, it's going to upgrade our antiquated gear for the relic armour questline. Yoshi pointed at this being the case a few times. "wait and see how to make it dye-able," "the new relic is eureka!" so yeah, the 290 gear is the eureka armour/weapon.

**Rokke** · 01-26-2018 04:22 AM

Too often the 24 man sets has a fun design but the colors are ugly as hell. I use the VA tank and caster sets pretty regularly, but I haaaaate the purple and grey accents Im stuck having to work around, so finally being able to have them in jet black will be great.

The tome gear is kinda ugly and the dungeon gear is boring, but the sigmascape and pvp gear are both nice... so I guess it balances out lol

Also wheres the caster design winner set? I want my chaps, SE

**Ghastly** · 01-26-2018 09:13 AM

It won't be until May until we maybe good a good hairstyle again :x so far stormblood's been the worst in hairstyles and besides some crafted glamour the worst in glamour also...
Have their designers lost their minds? Lack of ideas? Something has to be done..we want flavor..not the same food every day.

**Beckett** · 01-26-2018 02:57 AM

Oh man, I thought the Fashion Report sounded like a neat little diversion before, but now that I know who's running it, I'm super excited!

**Clover_Blake** · 01-26-2018 05:29 AM

I think we get the same number of new sets in every patch, and the rest are recolours or dyeable versions of previous sets. I personally love that; having to farm Void Ark on one of my alts would have been a pain, and it wouldn't have been dyeable either. This new release is good for me, at least.

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