Black Ice Gear and Lack of Diversity

domjot

With new content being added that will only work if you have the new Black Ice gear it essentially makes all previous T2 gear obsolete.
I would much rather in addition to the new Black Ice gear would be to have Black Ice Infused gear where you could use a combination of Black Ice crafting and armor crafting to basically make an existing T2 armor set into a Black Ice version of that set. Giving the armor the Black Ice dmg resistance, and a bit of tenacity. That way people can keep the gear and set bonuses they like without everyone being pigeonholed into one armor set.

nukainotas

I don't agree with OP.

There are looks and there are stats.

With transmute you can have a looks of any gear you like.

And we all want better stats, Black Ice gear provides that.

As a result you have better stats and the looks of your choice.

So at the end do you really care how the set of stats is named, be it a "Black Ice" or "High Vizier's"?


More important issue that i see with Black Ice gear - at least for my class (TR) there is way too much armor penetration on it.

With full Black Ice equimpent + Gemmed Exquisite Shirt and Pants i am almost at the arm pen cap (24% resistance ignored).

So my two artifacts with armor penetration (Lantern and Thayan book) and my dread ring 250 armor penetration boon (alternative is 3% deflect severity, which is worthless to me) i will be well over the armor penetration cap.

While this is probably good for PVP, but for PVE it will be a waste of stats.

I really hope they change something and take away some armor penetration from Corrupted/Purified Black Ice gear, adding more recovery instead.

cooljinx

I agree with the OP, the Black Ice gear is clearly designed to replace all other existing sets while offering a questionable choice of non-varying stats and the 4 pcs bonus only useful in the new zone. The OP mentions nowhere the gear looks, by the way.