Opportunity

Itemization of raid vs non-raid set items in recent content leaves something to be desired. They are basically separate items that require a significant deal of "gear tetris" to regain lost abilities.

Case(s) in point:

The Part of the Family neck upgrade loses True Seeing and Relentless Fury, two excellent and challenging-to-otherwise-slot buffs.
Hruit's gloves loses Devotion
Wallwatch loses Tendon Slice

While the "upgrades" do offer different stats, the losses seem a bit much for the effort required to attain what should be a better version.


Solution

1) Make the raid versions of set items an alternate slot
2) Only add new/upgraded stats to raid versions
3) Allow all set items to be upgraded in a meaningful way via specific raid runes


Misc

Please be open to viewpoints from people who raid.

If you don't raid for whatever reasons that's OK. No one is trying to imply anything about your ability/skill/playstyle/time.