Nope - feywild is not competing with Sharn set - they want to sell all 3 xpacs and the loot has to complement each other, not compete.
So an ideal gear set up at cap would be: Sharn set, 3-4 gear piece from feywild, maybe LGS and soulforged augments from RL raids. Hence the same bonus which conflicts with sharn set is moved to 5-7. Either you do sharn + feywild or go full 7 piece feywild.
This setup is way better, just the bonuses needs to be tweaked a bit.

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 9:50am:

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This is also true, most likely we will see feywild stuff used as fillers for the the 3 (maybe even 4?) pieces assuming they won't upset the gear tetris balance?

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Actually went to check both preview and, fucking hell, you're right. Guess Lynn thought that the 3 pieces bonuses were too much of "low hanging fruit" and killed them right away. Now if we want the good stuff we will have to sacrifice more slots and the sharn sets (most people won't of course). Not too happy about it but, at least, I know that whatever gear I farmed from sharn will be quite relevant for a while.

They just held their horses in the sword & shield race [confirmed].

That's the idea not to get better with gear, but to have more options.

Bringing better and better loot makes old content obsolete and they wanted to stop that. If they keep the progress speed as they had preRL -> RL -> Sharn, Feywild would obsolete LGS at that point.

There is new page in history to be revealed that brings lot of new stuff. Legendary levels with Legendary destinies - and there will be a place to create gear with ML:31 up to ML:40 [new milestone]. Expect all heroic raids/quests/chains, that were epic'd, now to be legendary'ed. Expect tomes up to +15 brought to ddostore etc by slow steps (+9 gonna be introduced very soon). Raining coins...

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 9:10am:


Lyn’s already proven that she’s not all that bright.  I mean, it’s not like there’s any actual talent working at SSG anyway.

Technomage wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 2:15pm:


Pretty sure all the non-shit art is farmed out because these guys would spend most of their time spilling, then cleaning up their finger paints from all over the floor.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 2:43pm:



YOU SHADDUP!

HE DOESN'T EVEN BEAT ME [as hard as he used to]!!!!

They should create a way in the augment system to be considered as part of a set ( like one for each set) so you can have more flexibility on it. that should fix this and keep the basic idea intact.

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 4:14pm:





I will say it's a little tricky. Assuming they want to flatten power. But, they're literally making the sets WORSE than Sharn. WTF?

Head-Meat wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 5:48pm:


Well, the page where you can buy the expansion lists November 4th as official launch (written in a size 2 front at very bottom of the page) but also December 4th in case of delay.

Considering that it's October 27 today, if they don't bother with another preview, those might be the official versions we get.

Edrein wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 6:39pm:


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Head-Meat wrote on Oct 27^th, 2020 at 8:04pm:


Due to the lackluster design, weird way of making the 'low hanging fruit' bonuses stack with sharn sets and the fact there's really no reason to go full 7pc Seasons. The entire design philosophy of not ramping up power creep for the sake of more lateral gear progression fails.

If we're still stuck wearing sharn sets as a base; then the pool of gear has simply turned into the phrase "Wide as an ocean and as deep a puddle." There is no real choice; it's an illusion of choice.

Until there is statistical change we're stuck wearing the three pieces of sharn gear; for non-casters that means gloves, necklace, and armor will forever be locked as far as we know. Which in turn means that any gear that might be neat options for those slots cannot be used, because again we're locked into The Family.

The system is proclaimed to promote flexibility but it doesn't. Lynabel keeps stating that the design is 3x sharn and 3-4x Feywild. That's neat; but it doesn't fix the fact that people would like to wear a different piece of armor or a different glove. But you can't because the set bonus is king.

The proposed set augments won't be able to fix the situation unless you're wearing raid loot or something with a set bonus you don't need given it overrides and mutes pre-existing sets on gear. Which with that being the case it would make far more sense to just let us craft The Family as an augment outright by using the same in design system, just cutting the weird middleman out.

Then you would finally be able to participate in this weird 3/3-4 system Lynabel is talking about, while also being able to slot your gear in a flexible way. Instead of being stuck with certain slots forced into a rigid position.

Now does that make sense?

Oh Arkat, you poor fool. You should have never copied and pasted my summary on the motherboard.

I'm persona non grata and once they realize the source wasn't the mobo, they'll look here and then boom. Instantly ignore the feedback because of the writer.

Though I do appreciate the small bump to my ego.