haha, and just wait, Ion will make it 489 a couple weeks in just like 10.1 ahahaha
That's an L in my opinion. Crafted gear is still going to be too good and easy to get. 3 ilvl is not going to make a big difference, especially with embellishments on two of them.
3 levels under the best gear, acceptable. Reading the comments, that's extra humour for my day.
With those costs it should be equal if not higher ilvl than mythic raid gear...
A LOT of embellishments got nerfed. Sporecloak got adjusted to possibly be better offensively but worse defensively. I might just keep lariat in early season at this point even without sockets on the non neck slots.
Its an acceptable middle ground. Hopefully itemization wise it will actually make embellishments not worthless.Personally I don't see the problem with it being max ilvl when the acquisition of the pieces is already time gated both by the game limiting you with sparks early on and with crest fragments requiring to be farmed at all times. Not to mention that S2 was the most enjoyable to my taste, fast and easy. Plenty of extra time for people to do other things from playing other games to hopping on alts.