He is.
See , they poured him a glass of champagne and clapped their hoofs when he came with the idea to turn epic gear augument slots into the lucrative system from cash perspective it is now.
Before it kept players in the endless grinding Limbo, but didn't produce dollars, now with all the rainbowy gems dropping in chests and possibility to trade for them at collectors like ones in Marketplace or Gianthold they're profitable.
Exeptions bein' of course only useful or convenient ones like deathblock, vitality, +1 Exceptional bonus to a Stats, higher percentage striders, false life, good luck ones, and other most sought after that can't be traded for at collectors. Overlook? Heh, not likely.
Now if they can be obtained more quickly then by amassing epic tokens and visiting 12 Enclave & with the new epic items not needing shards, seals and scrolls, you wonder how they can keep us in formerly mentioned Limbo?
Easy. Degenerate devised a plan for that as well.
Multiple variations of same named items with the slots to put those rainbowy auguments in. Also, see how he left older epic items untouched and they still require that sss trinity, though they did convert augument slots on them to be compatible with cash milking gems. And items lower then the epic ones got a retroactive change to get slots for gems as well. Fucking diabolical.
Maybe he's just playin to be a simpleton like Spacey in The Usual Suspects, but highly unlikely, just look at the fucker. Sure, they pull his strings too and feed him fhaufhages while they're taking a dump so he can enjoy that sound of "plunk", blasted plunker, but him being him, he fuck up even that, and a plethora of other things at that.
So ye, retard's to blame.
Graphic department, with new textures and meshes, did fine job as usual, that's to be expected since in such a commercial firms eye candy is always a priority to mesmerize kids, hell, even the new Enh. system isn't that bad, it requires adjustment as all new things do, but it's in line with ED's and brings some consistency to the game system as a whole, but lootz wise, royal fuckup.
Oh, forgot so let me modify
rest wrote on Aug 21
st, 2013 at 5:56pm:
I have some mournlord (or whatever the fuck they're called, the undead killing ones) shortswords i masterfully crafted and put ghost touch on. Originally ML 8 -> down to ML 6 with MC -> back up to ML 8 with ghost touch. They have not changed, and I made them the day before the update. I don't know what other challenge gear you're explicitly talking about.
Ring of Stalker and Rock boots on me perma lvl 11 alt that should've stayed at min lvl10