What does epic shavarath mean to you?

**BMurph** · 07-14-2015, 03:33 PM

Now I know that this is it's own story line compared to the old shavarath, but honestly for me the first thing that came to mind was epic ring sets. Something that at this time would be perfect for filling in the missing item slots and if done right, would add to a great end game for item farming. At this time, there isn't much reason to farm raids aside from going for tier 3 thunder-forged weapons and the few MoD or FoT items for niche builds. The ring sets, by design, were meant to provide that "one" item that each build needed to finish out their itemizing. Granted at this time the old set is horribly outdated and useless aside from say the AA ring set, but that just shows how much this could help. Also, it would allow for unique properties instead of the cram as much stats onto a single item as possible that we have been seeing lately.

As an example, here's what ring sets for Warlock could look like:

Enlightened Spirit set - Reduces the cooldown of aura procs by 1 second.
Tainted Scholar set - Provides 10% (amount may vary) bonus spell crit damage.
Soul Eater set - Vulnerability now stacks up to 30 times for your attacks, spells, and abilities and stacks once every 2 seconds instead of 3. (not sure how difficult this would be to code though)

then some examples for Rogue:

Assassin set - +2 stacking bonus to assassinate and entering sneak mode makes you invisible for 1 second.
Thief Acrobat set - Tumbling takes half as long and provides an extra +2 to dex and str for 12 sec after tumbling.
Mechanic set - You now auto search traps and secret doors as you pass by them.

There's a lot of possibilities with ring sets and with providing unique bonuses that work with each enhancement tree, which was what I believe a lot of people were looking forward to with epic sharavath, I know for one I was. I'm saddened that the new set of items is just starting to feel like rehashes of the loot we've recently gotten. Sure some of it is nice, some of it different people could make use of, but I think overall it was a let down of what some people were looking for, especially when thinking of "epic shavarath".

I would list more ideas, but my past posts seem to have fallen on deaf ears, or at least no responses have been given from the dev side, so I feel it would be a fruitless endeavor at this time. I apologize if this is in any way demeaning or feels hateful at all as this is not the intent as I have a lot of respect for the devs especially with the increased forum interaction lately, this is just an expression of my disappointment of an opportunity that could offer great item possibilities, but just ended up feeling wasted.

As always, anyone is free to chime in for their own thoughts, and devs are greatly encourage to provide feedback as well. Would like to know that at least one post makes it through the clutter to them. XD

**moo_cow** · 07-14-2015, 08:36 PM

I was hoping for sets too. That would have been fantastic. Amrath truly was an area where anyone could get good loot. Not so much on the epic version though.

Also highly disappointed with 3 quests and 1 raid. Seems a little light. I can already tell I'll be leaving after 1 week of the update.

**Ape_Man** · 07-14-2015, 09:08 PM

So far, maybe about an hour or two before it gets relegated to the bargain bin.

**Drwaz99** · 07-14-2015, 09:10 PM

I had high hopes of something that would keep me occupied for more than a blink of an eye. But it's seriously looking like it's back to boredom for me.

**axel15810** · 07-15-2015, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by moo_cow

Also highly disappointed with 3 quests and 1 raid. Seems a little light. I can already tell I'll be leaving after 1 week of the update.

I'm somewhat let down as well so far when it comes to the quantity. There's only 3 quests and they're all fairly short. Especially Demon Assault which took 10 minutes to complete first time through... when it was over my initial reaction was "that's it?" It does feel a little light. They could have combined Demon Assault and Devil's Details to make it one quest and even then it wouldn't have been that particularly long of a quest. Even if they combined all 3 into one quest it still probably would take less time to complete that than most take to complete ToEE part 1.

However, I'm totally OK with this as long as we get a complete raid that takes 30-45 minutes average completion time and doesn't feel shortcutted. Now if all we get is another raid where they cut out the beginning and middle of the experience and only give us the end boss fight then yes, I'll definitely feel a little let down. I want a deathwyrm, shroud, chronoscope, tempest shrine, ToD type of raid. Not another Mark of Death, Fall of Truth or Fire Peaks.

I know dev staff is short these days and this is probably not realistic for one update anymore, but how awesome would it have been if we could have gotten say 3-4 old shavarath quests epic'd, new ring sets with epic ToD, PLUS 2-3 new quests and a new raid?

Maybe I need to come back down to earth. I think ever since we got so much with MoTU and Shadowfell updates my expectations for the quantity of new content we get with updates is too high.

As far as the OP topic, rings does come to mind for me too. Hopefully one day we'll get the old shavarath epic'd with epic rings.

**Severlin** · 07-15-2015, 04:45 PM

We need content with a variety of completion lengths, particularly at level 28. Temple of Elemental Evil is fairly long, these are meant for players who want to complete some content and don't have as much time.

Our goal for the raid's length is somewhere in the ballpark of the Fire on Thunder Peaks raid.

Sev~

**Drwaz99** · 07-15-2015, 05:03 PM