The Gear Rework

As an end-gamer, this update has been both great and very bad:

  • Great, because my Mythic Level 50 items gave all my Level 50 Characters fully maxed out Battle Scrolls.
  • VERY BAD, because the gear rework deleted the value of so many glyphs that cost me time and money (as I explain in detail here).

As an end-gamer before the gear rework, I put money and a LOT of time into getting glyphs to upgrade multiple offensive, defensive, and utility items to Level 50. However, the only glyphs that were converted to anything of value post-gear rework were the 10 weapon glyphs, 10 armor glyphs, and 10 accessory glyphs used to upgrade one item from each category to Level 50 (which each resulted in a maxed-out battle scroll post-conversion). Aside from those 30 glyphs, all other glyphs that upgraded my other items up to Level 50 pre-rework were otherwise converted to a value of ZERO post-rework - in other words, those glyphs were completely wasted, thrown away, and vaporized. This was a baffling and totally unnecessary devaluation of the time and money invested into those glyphs, and all the developers needed to do was refund those extra glyphs - just like they did for the Spell Rework. And I still have not heard from developers why they don’t plan to refund our vaporized glyphs @Jeto @Mother_Morgz @Kafka. In the absence of further clarification, I can only assume it’s to try to squeeze more money out of us.

So yeah, it seems like we have the following two big problems:

  1. For low-to-mid level players, post-rework progression is almost completely dependent on RNG if we don’t have an option to manually upgrade item rarities. This could be fixed by allowing Followers to upgrade item rarities.
  2. For mid-to-end level players, high-investment glyphs were completely wasted if they were used to max-upgrade (Lvl 50) multiple items in a specific scroll category. This could be very easily fixed by refunding only the glyphs invested in Mythic Lvl 46+ items did not contribute to the character’s scroll levels (i.e., glyphs invested in other Mythic Lvl 46+ items aside from the highest-level item in each scroll category).
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