Luck does more than most realize, from increasing the number of crap items on a corpse, to increasing the crap mods on the items, and such... doesn't always mean you get good stuff... or better stuff... IMO most the mods on things are irrelevant and don't even compliment one another in a way that would be remotely useful... How many times I've checked off needed things only to find it's lacking that ONE most important property...
Mage weapons lack Spell Channeling.... what mage would use a weapon if they can't cast spells and keep it in their hand????
Bows... lack SSI... no archer uses a repeater it's like using a pea shooter to kill a grizzly bear... Most archers either chose a Composite, Short Bow or Crossbow... only in PvP would I use a Heavy... and then it's just to knock someone off their mount... after that I honestly am not going to use it so it wouldn't need SSI .... but a Composite or Regular Bow or even a cross bow it's a MUST. Same with Mana Leech.
As a dexer for armor I'm looking for LMC, MR and anything to improve my stamina/Dex... I don't want LRC... or anything like that and you ever notice how when you find an item with Reflect Physical on it 9 times out of 10 it's got REALLY high Physical resist??? If you want to build a good Reflect suit then physical has got to be the LOWEST of your resists... that way anything or anyone with consecrate will be getting the full effect of your effort... and as a mage I want the thing to be light.... I'm not going to make my mage a tank therefore it baffles me why so much mage stuff is 95 str requirement or more... who's going to wear that??? One curse and it's in your bag not helping you at all...
Most times what I want on my weapon are DI, ML, Hit something, sometimes area effect stuffs, SSI and Hit lower whatever... I do NOT want MR, SR, or other crap that ought to be for mages... seems most items are 1/2 good for a mage or 1/2 good for a dexer but not good for either and not good or useful for someone that's both... Much of the mage appropriate jewels lack FC/FCR... which IMO is a MUST have for a mage... Sure a chivy dexer might want 4/6 casting but not everyone needs 4/6 casting ... I just want to have the stuff pick one or the other not try to be both .... Because when it tries to satisfy both classes it fails at both...
The drops for the event show how clearly the DEVs completely fail at understanding what is a good weapon... Drives me nuts that the composite bows and Yumi's do NOT seem to drop... Just bows, crossbows and heavy's .... nothing else. Meanwhile I've seen my share of Katana's and Krysses... and even some cleavers, daggers and other decent weapon styles but the Archer is denied their most popular weapon of choice... guess that tells us how they feel about archers eh?
Just getting more and more frustrated...
Things I have enjoyed though would be the Frightened and Terrified NPC's what a HOOT... I saw about 6 of them running in and out of Castle British... screaming and carrying on... a few would run up to me screaming and such was hilarious... And it's always nice to see good lore and old friends like Shimino, Dupre, Sherry and such... Makes me miss Dawn even more.