Availability of weathered "Gerolt's Masterwork" weapons

[Iscah]

(This was a bug report but it's been pushed into General Discussion.)

The introduction of pre-upgraded weapons has caused a weapon appearance to become unavailable for glamour purposes.

Date & Time: any
Frequency: always
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NPC name: Aelina (shop category: Gerolt's Masterworks)
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Area and coordinates: Revenant's Toll - Mor Dhona X:22.6 Y:6.7
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The simplification of weapon purchases in 5.3 was mostly a good thing, and from a glamour perspective the only difference for most of the affected weapons is that they are now dyeable.

However, the weapon series collectively referred to as "Gerolt's Masterworks" doesn't become dyeable when upgraded, but instead acquires a strong glowing effect. Thus the non-upgraded "weathered" versions of the weapons had a separate value for glamour purposes.

The weathered versions are now entirely inaccessible because the shop only sells the upgraded glowing versions.

Can this please be reviewed to make the weathered versions available again somehow?

[sprdougherty]

Just started looking into this myself and was disappointed the non-glowing versions aren't available, generally not a fan of glowing weapons. While the models have been used elsewhere, nothing has reused their skins. Were they to be reintroduced, the 2.5 dungeons (Keeper, Amdapor/Wanderer's Hard) could be a good place to drop them from, as they are the same iLvl as the armor dropped from those dungeons. The systems to upgrade them are still present as well.

[Iscah]

I assume the upgrade systems are just in place in case someone has the weathered weapon and upgrade tokens still on hand (and in this case doesn't realise the value of what they have!).

Making them to drop from dungeons could *maybe* work, though endgame dungeons are generally a frustrating place to put gear drops since they're entirely RNG-based. I hope they'll introduce guaranteed drops like the levelling dungeons get.