You left out that in 8 months it will be almost useless and have very little value, because "the next great thing" has already come out
And that is a very good point, a good example are the Doom arties very few of those are even worth owning now days. Armor of Fortune and Orni come to mind. But even then I can get loot pieces and enhance that are better, or reforge and enhance and imbue up to 10 luck shy of the AF that has much better resist, lrc and other props. Then factor in the buffs that can be added to armor..... Don't get me wrong I am happy my crafters are useful again. Seems though new loot should be thought out to compliment the older existing best items instead of make them obsolete and of little value. Given the past time invested in obtaining a piece like a AF for example why not follow that with Sleeves of fortune, later legs of fortune, cap of fortune, and gloves of fortune, already have the mempo
Top it off with the soles, 140 conjurers garb and the turn in jewels for a complete set of fortune armor with some buffs with the full set. AND NOT MAKE THEM NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN except my the most grinding elite, that the RNG does not hate
Give everyone the opportunity to have nice things with out having to spend a couple hundred million. I forgot to log out and left my main toon on the porch of the wolf house a couple nights ago, while feeding the livestock. Came back in and a couple of reapers had spawned and killed me. I never use insurance so everything except the blessed items were gone. Tallied up the cost in gold of that loss and it was around 180,000,000 gold give or take 5 million. Not a huge deal for me as I keep 5 sets of duplicate armor for every character, not a great deal either because it was a stupid way to lose a bunch of stuff. It did get me to thinking though that a new or newer player or even a good number of casual players are not going to have 18 years worth of horded gold and items to fall back on. Yeah I know you can insure stuff and bless everything with enough gold now days. But I am old school in that regard. But it happened that insurance money in the bank runs out, there have been bugs that have cause blessed items to become unblessed, and insured items to stay on the corpse over the years. Not to mention the things that sometimes just seem to go poof during a transfer
Someone without the resources to easily replace high value equipment and items might just call something like that a game ender. Again not saying it should be super easy to replace stuff but it should also not become your lifes mission. Slugging it with a champ that takes a hour or better to kill over and over or paying 40,000,000 -100,000,000+ for one piece of a suit ain't fun in most peoples book. Doing it 5-10-20 times sure hundreds of time unless your are really lucky..... most people just say screw it.
