I do respect your argument, however... The Nex sets, Torva for example had higher strength bonus than bandos, greatly higher defense (as it was t90), and to top it all off, a constitution (hp) bonus. The melee armor proposed only features VERY SLIGHT attack bonuses and the same strength bonus as the current BIS, Bandos. This armor, being at a high rarity could never degrade the usefulness of the Bandos gear.
As for the ganodermic, korasi, boots, gloves, etc....... The boots came out already, the Jewelry came out already, The new capes are underway, and a new high hitting, accurate, non spec weapon is being added (elder maul) I suppose we don't have new gloves except for the zenyte bracelet... still.... it seems silly to me to add brand new peripheral items, and leave out new armor, we are stuck to bandos, arma, ahrims.
I'd be more than fine if they kept only the robes, as magic needs a serious balancing with the other two combat styles (at least in a PvM setting)
And seriously, if it is going to be as rare as they say, and as difficult as they say. I highly doubt any of the PvP community will see much of that armor.
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Also, the armor repair cost is high, and it is in COINS. This will help re-balance the GP, as months ago there were bad duping glitches for GP, not sure how they pulled it off, something about the rat pits.
09-Oct-2016 15:31:56