people are seriously complaining about recycled gear now?
there have been more armor set designs introduced in any single major version update of 2013 than there was for the WHOLE of 2009. Take it from the person who mines this shit. Recycled gear dats is not the least bit of concern at the moment.
Before we forget some of the new armor dat sets we've gotten. Does nobody remember these at all?
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I think its pretty refreshing that some of the older designs are making a comeback. It gives longtime players a slight sense of nostalgia and a bit of dissonance when they see high level players decked out in 'newb' gear
Kam'lanaut and Eald'narche hard mode fights could potentially be very interesting. Not sure if anyone really remembers, but the fights had some unique mechanics attached that they could expand on and make pretty cool.
Great Wheel is going to make the standard RNG + PLD strategy extremely difficult or impossible on higher difficulties. I'm interested in seeing what people come up with for VD on it.
Kam was awesome. Not sure about other servers but we always called him super man for the way he would fly around and pretty much own anyone and everyone all the time. Led to some weird semi kiting in small area strats sometimes lol. But yeah was one of my favorite fights. Hate how much you could pretty much ignore all the things that made the BC fight interesting and just zerg in apoc nigh.
As far as trying him on VD... that sounds like it will be real fun. Eald... well Exoplates will make initial hate fun especially for melee methods. His moving around and annoying moves in 2nd form will be all kinds of chaos lol
Could see them making his enspells undispellable and having them grant additional benefits besides elemental absorption.
Eald'narche could have regenerating Exoplates and stronger Orbitals with additional mechanics attached, like maybe they self destruct if left alive too long or something, or they could act like Chirada/Suparna in XIV's Garuda fights and give him buffs if they're alive. Second phase would make RNG strategies almost impossible too since he doesn't have static enmity when he's teleporting around.
I hope this update springs another awful promotion video, Square needs practice with WMM.