RED micro-site now out!

To be honest, I don't know if "装备道具" means set equipment or not. My interpretation is, no it doesn't mean so, because 装备 and 道具 both mean equipment, and in the images both terms were used interchangeably. I will reserve judgement on this until we get more information. Losing that much %Boss and %IgnorePDR from RA is very painful though, and I am very sure nobody wants to lose their Tyrant's superior item tag just for a lame increase in item level, not when there's no further point in increasing the item level and a further enhancement gives paltry bonuses.

On a side note, the benefit of this carrying-over is: 1) you don't need to rescroll your perfectly-scrolled (or THEN-perfectly scrolled equipment... given how they dish out new and better scrolls...) equipment, and 2) you don't need to re-enhance your equipment, except for the last star "slot" (if you so feel that it is worth it to further enhance it, given that enhancement stats are fully carried over). That also implies that 3) you need not perfect your, say... Empress weapon, and still allow it to have its potential rank.

The obvious downside is... you lose your perfect potential, and as of now we don't know if the base stats are carried over (i.e. stat-for-stat), or if bonus stats are carried over (e.g. base 120 +35 WA from scrolling 7*5WA scroll ---> base 125 + 35WA from scrolling). The best outcome for us is the latter, and if it's the former it is... dumb, as of now.

It remains to be seen if your slot count for the carried-over Vortex equipment is going to be 0, or 7. Either ways, you don't actually lose money from scrolling, and if it's the latter you stand to gain with further scrolling (but yes you still have to use lots of money to further scroll...)

Just how much stats does one last enhancement on a normal equipment (say... 11th --> 12th star) give?

Hadriel

I don't think Tyrants can be transfered over. On GMS microsite it says Fafnir and Empress only.

Also, it depends on the player. Boss/Total adds up very quickly and is additive. A 30% Boss loss for me is less than a 10% dpm loss. I am not good at maple math, but if the stats do indeed transfer over and you gain slots, the total attack and all stat I get at the end of the day definitely should be worth that boss% loss. The PDR is an issue, but PDR can be managed. I would just replace the pdr loss with a 30% pdr line on my new emblem which is greater than the total pdr RA equips gives due to multplication. Partying with PDR casters also would help. If your not funded, then...well, yea, it might hurt and it still might hurt if your funded.


With your side notes, yea, pretty much I agree. Although, the way the phrase how they are taking a star away makes me think we get new slots. They could have just said, we are taking a star away so you can spend more money to get it back or gain a bit of attack. But instead they said, they are taking a star away for further enhancement. Then again, if you play the word game with Nexon, you probably will lose.


With normal equipment, well I assume you would only be doing this on your weapon, in which it depends on your funding and how you scrolled the weapon. But on average we are talking about an extra 5-8 attack gain.

Edit: I just realized that Pnedant/face/eye arn't part of the 6 equip set, I thought they were. That makes the already hard decision harder a. Honestly I need more info, but I can't condemn the thing yet, especially since this is CMST that seems to treat thier equips differently.