New-ish player feeling completely screwed by 3.0 gear update (bug?)

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These are my feeling on the subject:

Logic behind 3.0 changes

@Jeto I know you and the team are swamped, but I thought I’d try my luck and tag you anyway. There are parts of this update that make lots of sense, and a few that really don’t. Battle scrolls. This, like the spellbook, kind of makes sense. Treating the warrior and the weapon as two separate entities has a certain logic to it: in real life a great sword is no help to a novice with no training. But, the number of glyphs needed to get a scroll to level 50 is insane. Armour glyphs alone are 96 …