Armor

Alpha-1 weibliche Plattenrüstung 3D render.^[1]

Wir wollen realistisch mit der Anwendung der verschiedenen Rüstungstypen sein, wie in dem Fall mit der Plattenrüstung. In dieser Hinsicht gibt es Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Geschlechtern, die Rüstung soll die Figur des Geschlechts betonen sowie realistisch und zutreffend zur jeweiligen Umwelt sein.^[1] – Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 Lederrüstung 3D renders.^[2]

Rüstung 3D render von Brad Constantine.^[3]

Rüstungstypen in Ashes of Creation:

Alpha-0 Mace.^[11]

Kaelar Tank armor concept by Mat Broome.

Die Ausrüstung hat etwa einen Einfluss von 40-50% auf die Gesamtmacht eines Spielers.^[12]

List of armor

Item	Type	Set	Rarity	Level requirement	Source
Band of Concentration	Jewelry		Rare	1
Chain Pendant	Jewelry		Rare	1
Cloth Belt of Dark Fortunes	Belt	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Cloth Boots of Dark Fortunes	Stiefel	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Cloth Epaulettes of Dark Fortunes	Shoulders	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Cloth Gloves of Dark Fortunes	Handschuhe	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Cloth Hood of Dark Fortunes	Helmet	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Cloth Leggings of Dark Fortunes	Pants	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Cloth Robes of Dark Fortune	Chest armor	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Cloth Sleeves of Dark Fortune	Wrists	Dark Fortunes	Epic	15	Crafted items
Ethereal Plate Gauntlets	Handschuhe	Etherial	Rare	1
Ethereal Plate Spaulders	Shoulders	Etherial	Rare	1
Faded Breastplate	Chest armor	Faded	Poor	2
Faded Plate Boots	Stiefel	Faded	Poor	2
Frayed Cloth Gloves	Handschuhe	Frayed	Common	7	Quest rewards
Imposing Plate Belt	Belt	Imposing	Rare	9	Crafted items
Plate Belt of Dragons Protection	Belt	Dragon's Protection	Legendary	15	Crafted items
Plate Boots of Dragons Protection	Stiefel	Dragon's Protection	Legendary	15	Crafted items
Plate Cussies of Dragons Protection	Pants	Dragon's Protection	Legendary	15	Crafted items
Plate Gauntlets of Dragons Protection	Handschuhe	Dragon's Protection	Legendary	15	Crafted items
Refurbished Plate Boots	Stiefel	Refurbished	Uncommon	8
Refurbished Plate Gauntlets	Handschuhe	Refurbished	Common	7	Quest rewards
Ripped Cloth Boots	Stiefel	Ripped	Uncommon	8
Torn Cloth Boots	Stiefel	Torn	Poor	2
Torn Cloth Robes	Chest armor	Torn	Poor	2
Transcendent Plate Helm	Helmet	Transcendent	Legendary	15	Crafted items
Worn Breastplate	Chest armor	Worn	Common	1
Worn Cloth Belt	Belt	Worn	Common	1
Worn Plate Boots	Stiefel	Worn	Common	1
Worn Plate Cuisses	Pants	Worn	Common	1
Worn Plate Helmet	Helmet	Worn	Common	1	Vendor
Worn Plate Vambrace	Wrists	Worn	Common	1

Stats on gear

Crafters will be able to assign different skills/abilities and stats on gear.^[13]^[14]

Master crafters will be able to influence several (but not all) stats on their crafted items.^[13]^[15]
- Stats on crafted items will vary based on the item's rarity.^[16]
There will also be methods of moving stat blocks around but this won't necessarily be an easy task.^[17]^[13]
All gear will be able to be assigned any stat.^[13]

Crafters will be able to 'rejigger' stat blocks; and there will be a couple of other ways to move things around to create both the look and the stat block that you're looking for. It's not always going to be easy. There will be a lot of challenges involved with that. But the goal is to give you guys the option to customize your gear the way you want them to be.^[13] – Jeffrey Bard

Not all armor sets will be the cookie cutter kind of set. They will have the influences from the crafter available in it, if it's a crafted set.^[14] – Steven Sharif

Gear is broken down into Core Stats and Additional Stats.^[18]

Ausrüstungsplätze

Alpha-1 character sheet early concept UI by Ryan Pearson.^[19]

Es gibt 16 Ausrüstungsplätze in Ashes of Creation:^[20]

8 für Rüstung
5 für Schmuck
2 für Waffen
1 für Fernkampf

Armor characteristics

Kaelar armor.^[21]

Armor characteristics are in general determined by the "type" of armor (Light, Medium, Heavy).^[17]

Stat values will be predominately the same but may be able to be adjusted by crafters who are capable with that type of armor.^[17]
- Physical Defense Mitigation.^[17]
- Magical Defense Mitigation.^[17]

Certain armor types are going to have certain type of predominant stat values. So there's going to be certain waterfall stats and/or certain primary attributes that are available on certain armor types; and then if you want to have the one that's not more prominently available- those will be rare to get- you'll have to elicit the services of a crafter who's very capable within that particular type of armor in order to get the non-traditional stats and/or waterfalls available. So there's still the ability to get whatever on these but they're going to be more predetermined for certain types of stats and waterfalls.^[17] – Steven Sharif

Set bonuses are granted to wearers of exclusively one type of armor, for example: all cloth, or all plate.^[17]^[17]^[22]

There'll be certain types of set bonuses granted across specific full sets or partial sets of armor types. There will be a similar function in how damage is mitigated based on the type of armor you're wearing and how that relates to physical or magical incoming damage. So that's something to keep in mind. It's going to be situational what type of adversarial foe am I facing and what armor is the best against that to mitigate damage.^[17] – Steven Sharif

The "type" of armor (cloth, leather, plate) a character is predominantly wearing is visible in their nameplate.^[17]^[23]
- There will be strengths and weaknesses for armor sets that opponents can exploit with gear enhancements, for example.^[17]

You're going to have certain strengths and weaknesses of armor sets and those can be specced into by your opponents. For example, I might place some type of elemental enhancements on my weapon that horizontally changes my outgoing damage and that's going to reflect based on the opponent on my target opponent and what type of armor they have available to them to counter that.^[17] – Steven Sharif

Itemization choice may potentially play into universal skill sets such as Dodge, Parry, and Aktives Blocken.^[17]

We're playing a little bit with the idea of these universal skill sets, such as dodge, parry, block, active blocking, stuff like that; and progression within those areas. There is something to be said I think for incorporating itemization choice as part of that system as well; and how it might affect that system. That's something that I think is going to be coming up in the pitch phase here shortly from design as we implement those universal skills. So you can look out in the future for more information on that.^[17] – Steven Sharif

Light armor

Kaelar Level 20 robe set 3D render.^[24]

This set is a level 20 set and this is not cosmetic. This is an in-game achievable armor set I believe.^[24] – Steven Sharif

Light armor (also referred to as Robes and Cloth armor).^[25]^[26]

Light armor is more mobile than heavier armor.^[27]
Light armor is geared towards magical damage mitigation.^[28]^[29]

Medium armor

Level 10-20 crafted leather armor set 3D render.^[30]

Medium armor (also referred to as Leather armor) can incorporate robe, chainmail, and plate, influences.^[25]^[26]^[31]

Heavy armor

Tier 5 in-game earnable Kaelar plate armor 3D renders.^[32]

Heavy armor is predominantly plate metal, but may incorporate other influences, such as leather.^[31]

Heavy armor typically has more HP than lighter armor.^[27]
Heavy armor is geared towards physical damage mitigation.^[28]

Class weapons and armor

Waffen und Rüstungen sind nicht für bestimmte Klassen gesperrt, aber bestimmte Klassen sind mit bestimmten Arten von Waffen oder Rüstungen effizienter.^[33]^[34] Bestimmte Fähigkeiten erfordern, dass bestimmte Gegenstände ausgerüstet sind.^[35]

Weapons are intended to be somewhat agnostic in the sense that you can find a way for a weapon to be utilized by different classes. Not just the rogue is going to be able to use daggers. Because if you restrict equipment through that, it makes the economy more difficult to have sustainability across the market of items.^[36] – Steven Sharif

Rassenspezifische Waffen und Rüstungen

Armor racial appearances in early Alpha-1.^[37]

Violet light and myself are wearing exactly the same armor set right: Same stats, same everything, but it drops for her it looks one way, it drops for me it looks another way; and... a small part of that is gender, but then the other part of it is race. So because I was a Vaelune in that playthrough my armor was in the Vaelune style; and when she picked it up it was in the elven style because she was an elf. So that kind of gives you an example of sort of the breadth of looks that we're going for and how we kind of try to capture like who you are as as a character and kind of allow you to kind of build your look that way.^[38] – Jeffrey Bard

Dünir and Empyrean racially styled armor concept art by Keith Kovach.^[39]

Waffen and armor are not race locked, but armor will take on a racial appearance.^[40]^[41]

Erscheinungsbild der Rassen of gear is focused on Armor, not Waffen.^[42]

The customization of equipment per race is really focused on Armor sets not Weapon props. Weapon props will, from a model standpoint, will translate pretty one-to-one across the races.^[42] – Steven Sharif

Let's say for example you have the Eagle set or something, right: The Eagle set has in art, it has a thematic design that's going to include certain attachments to the armor. It's going to include color palette and theme. It's going to have some aspects to it that define it as the Eagle set, right. When a Elf wears the Eagle set or when an Orc wears the Eagle set, you obviously have two different cultures there; and you don't want to stomp out that culture by assigning a de facto 'This is the Eagle set and this is how it looks on everybody.' What we want to have is cultural influences play a role in showing how that set looks.^[42] – Steven Sharif

Erscheinungsbild der Rassen of gear sets is tied to the character model of that race.^[43]

When you say, what if I'm an Orc but want to look like an Elf and I want my Eagle set to be the Elf representation? Well the issue becomes there that you know Orcs have a different organic model. You know, their body is different than that of the Elf. So, from a scope-creep standpoint, it's one thing to add different influences that represent the cultures that are donning the armor; it's another thing to adapt each influence as a matrix that can be worn pretty much by everything. From a scope perspective, that's a very difficult task for the character artists to kind of tackle. So instead what we've done is, in order to facilitate a variety of cultural representation between the races but allow for the sharing of assets like different armor sets, we give different representations of those armor sets to each race.^[43] – Steven Sharif

Appearance

Alpha-1 female plate armor 3D render.^[1]

We want to be realistic with the application of particular types of armor, such as plate armor. In this regard for the different sexes there's a fine line that has to be drawn between accentuating the form of the sex as well as making it somewhat realistic and actually applicable to the environment.^[1] – Steven Sharif

Ausrüstung soll realistisch aussehen.^[44]^[45]

Es wird keine "übergroßen" Waffen geben.^[46]
Ausrüstung wird nicht übermäßig sexuell aussehen.^[45]

We're going for kind of a more realistic look; not necessarily realistic setting, but we want our characters to have weight and kind of feel like they're there.^[44] – Jeffrey Bard

I'm more of the mind that it wouldn't really serve a purpose to have bikini plate armor, just in like reality, if you're going to have armor, it should be protective. I think from a fashion statement is enjoyable for some people, but it's a kind of an immersive issue.^[44] – Steven Sharif

Ausrüstung wird Optische-Slots (Transmutation/Transmog/kosmetische Slots) haben, die das Aussehen eines Items kopieren können (in einigen Fällen).^[47]^[48]

Es gibt Regeln für Anwendung von Kosmetika auf bestimmte Gegenstände, im Gegensatz zu Kostümen, die keine Stufen-Beschränkung haben.^[49]
Rüstung wird sich visuell an die Rasse des Trägers anpassen.^[42]
Kosmetische-Slots können vom Spieler ein- und ausgeschaltet werden.^[50]
- Bei Belagerungen oder anderen groß angelegten Schlachten kann automatisch ein "Standard-Spieler-Erscheinungsbild" angewendet werden, um die Client-seitige Leistung zu verbessern.^[51]^[52]

Spieler können die Farbe der Ausrüstung mit Farbstoffen verändern.^[53]^[54]

Helme können ein- und ausgeschaltet werden.^[4]

Haare werden wahrscheinlich ausgeblendet, wenn der Helm angezeigt wird.^[55]

Partikeleffekte werden verwendet, um die Wichtigkeit und Seltenheit einiger Waffen visuell darzustellen.^[56]

Waffen können eingewickelt / umhüllt werden.^[57]

Appearance slots/Transmogs

Ausrüstung will have appearance slots (Transmutation/Transmog/cosmetic slots) that are used to copy the appearance of an item (in some cases).^[47]^[48]

There are rules when applying cosmetics to specific items, unlike costumes, which don't have level restrictions.^[49]
Cosmetic slots can be toggled on or off by the player.^[50]
A "default player appearance" may be automatically applied during sieges or other large scale battles to improve client-side performance.^[51]^[52]

Zubehör

Zubehör können als Akzentstücke neben der Rüstung freigeschaltet werden, um einen individuellen Look zu kreieren.^[58]

Es wird hunderte Zubehöre geben, die von kleinen Knöpfen bis zu Brustplatten reichen.^[58]

Dyeable items

Farbstoffe only affect tagged portions of dyeable armor or cosmetic items.^[59]

The dyeability of costumes depends on the specific costume.^[59]

Outside of wanting to keep maybe some identity from a lore perspective; for example if you have like a white lion's suit of armor, you may not want that white lion suit of armor to be black or blue. So, it's possible. It depends on the costume itself.^[59] – Steven Sharif

Backer only armor skin

All Kickstarter backers receive a unique armor skin set.^[60]

Modular armor

Kaelar base level Ashes of Creation Apocalypse robe set.

You can kind of start to see like some of the components that we put together that we can mix and match and kind of make new armors from. This is kind of like the base chassis for all of that.^[61] – Jeffrey Bard

Your base look for the character can be pretty boring, but what Steven gave us a challenge with from day one was to make sure even the base look, the t-shirt and pants, looked amazing... This is your zero character, if you will... Then you can go in and customize everything from the shoulder pads to the elbow pads, the belt that goes around them; do you want duel belts, you want to harness the clothes in the front. So every piece you see on here you can actually customize that at the front end. So what we do is we scale that up from zero, ten and twenty... We scale it up and we customize it; and then I want to really stress that each one of those looks as you progress is different. We're not just repurposing the same armor pieces. We're making unique sets that complement each other as you progress.^[61] – Mat Broome

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse will have three different armor themes: Plate, leather and robe.^[62]

You can actually have three different types of themes: You have plate, you'll have leather and you'll have robe. So for every armor set that we're showing at each one of those tiers, you're actually gonna have nine unique looks to pick from.^[62] – Mat Broome

Kosmetikshop

Ashes of Creation cosmetic store.^[63]

There is going to be legendary cosmetics that can be earned and achieved in the game through the game systems, but that's going to take a significant amount of effort and work; and those cosmetics are going to be on-par with the cosmetics offered in the marketplace... What that does is it provides additional revenue to the company so that we can continue to fund the development of content as well and bridge the divide that not having a box cost would have and not having any pay-to-win mechanics whatsoever.^[64] – Steven Sharif

The Kosmetikshop enables players to purchase Cosmetics for use in Ashes of Creation.^[65] The cosmetic store offers limited time, limited quantity items to help sustain game development.^[66]

Equitable cosmetics, both from a quantity and quality standpoint, are achievable through in-game means.^[66]
Nothing in the cosmetic store will be pay to win.^[67]

Nothing in our shop will ever be pay to win as we believe this practice greatly hurts the MMORPG genre.^[67]

Cash shop cosmetics will offer a diverse selection of unique looks.^[68]

I want to incentivize purchase in the cosmetic shop for sustainability of what expansions we have intended, since we are not a box cost. I want to incentivize purchase by offering limited items: limited time, limited quantity, so you have confidence that when you purchase them, they won't be offered later on in some other way.^[66] – Steven Sharif

All cosmetic store items will be non-tradeable.^[69] There will be no gifting mechanism for cosmetic items.^[70]

I don't want cosmetic items that can be purchased from the market to be transferable... because it is in a way a transfer of money for potentially something in-game.^[70] – Steven Sharif

Ausrüstungs-Sets

Kaelar tier 1 (level 10) early Alpha-1 cloth armor non-cosmetic set 3D renders.^[71]

Ausrüstungs-Sets (also known as tier sets) are a part of Ashes of Creation.^[72]^[48]

Different tiers of gear are accessible based on a character's level.^[72]^[48]
Players gain bonuses depending on the number of pieces of the set they have equipped.^[72]^[48]
- An overarching set effect is granted to wearers of exclusively one type of armor, for example: all cloth, or all plate.^[22]
- Certain set bonuses may trade off core gear stats.^[73]
- There may be set bonuses that members of certain communities will obtain based on gear set type.^[48]
There are passive abilities that can be chosen to become more adept with certain set types.^[48]
There will be viable non-set builds.^[73]
Erscheinungsbild der Rassen of gear sets is tied to the character model of that race.^[43]
It may be possible to store and swap gear sets with a single button press when out of combat.^[74]

Approximately 49 unique gear sets are obtainable in Alpha-1 from crafting, quests, drops and exploration.^[75]

These are unique sets with different stats, but some may be similar in appearance.^[75]

List of gear sets

Best-in-slot armor

Best in slot weapons and armor is based on a character's role and the type of monster they are facing.^[76]

Mana-forged armor

Mana-forged armor sets may be achievable in the Ashes of Creation MMO.^[77]

They also appear to be base variants of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor sets.^[78]

Verra will be filled with many sets of armor, each set uniquely carved into the history of the world. Mana-forged sets are distinctly vibrant with luminescent magic, pulsating across the body of its hero. We hope you enjoy them, and look forward to many more glimpses into the armors of Verra, waiting for their champions!^[79] – Margaret Krohn

Regalia of the Iron Lion

The Iron Lion is a fairly new order, one formed out of a desire to control the unknowable. With the rediscovery of the old world, many Kaelar wondered what lay beyond, considering the incredible power the divine gateways represented. To this end, the Iron Lion focuses not only on martial combat, but also on the art of dampening magic. Without such knowledge, establishing a foothold may be all but impossible - rampant magic is an unpredictable, and many times lethal, complication in any sortie. Due to this, the Iron Lion puts forth significant effort in studying and learning about the magics they come across, hoping to minimize the dangers they pose.^[80]

Gear enhancement

Ausrüstungsverbesserungen (Kraftsteine/Runen) können an Waffen angebracht werden, um der Waffe Elementar- oder Energieschaden zu verleihen.^[81]^[82]

We are very likely going to have a rune system and then we'll have the ability to sort of enchant weapons outside of that too... That's not always going to be like a vertical progression... Some of it's going to be giving up something to get something else; so maybe I do less physical damage but more magical damage, that kind of thing.^[82] – Jeffrey Bard

Fortschritt in verschiedenen PvP Systemen, kann man Verzauberungssteine erhalten, welche temporäre PvP-Vorteile verleihen. (Sockelsystem).^[83] Performance is measured over six month PvP seasons.^[84]
- Gildenkriege.^[83]
- Arenen.^[83]
- Karawanen-PvP.^[83]

It's not as though you're going to necessarily acquire these once and then you're set for your PvP enchantments, but instead you'll have to continually perform month after month in order to keep having those slotted enchantments.^[83] – Steven Sharif

Enchanting

There are two types of enchantments for items: Vertical and horizontal.^[85]

Vertical enchantments are a power progression for a crafted item. More damage or mitigations, added effects or bonuses. Vertical enchantments include risks. ^[85]
- There isn't RNG in crafting but there may be a small amount of RNG in enchanting.^[86]
- Over-enchanting items comes with a potential risk that the item decays or is destroyed if a safety margin is exceeded. This system is subject to testing.^[87]^[88]

When it comes to over-enchanting things, what we're going to do likely is have a safety- and this is something obviously it needs to be tested- but we're going to have a safety period of enchantment you know like in Lineage 2 I think you could enchant plus four or something. And so we're gonna have a similar system where you can enchant safely and then when you start to take risks, that percentage of potentially damaging your item either through the decay system or completely disabling it through the destruction system will be a risk that's present.^[87] – Steven Sharif

Horizontal enchantments are more situational. For example: I'd like my sword to do force damage instead of holy damage because the monsters I tend to fight are incorporeal.^[85]
- This doesn't make the item more powerful, but instead more applicable to different situations, and less so to others.^[85]
- This type of enchanting assumes no risk, just time and effort.^[85]

Enchanting services are sold at player stalls.^[89]

Enchanting does not increase an item's level requirement.^[90]

You don't really push a particular item's level requirement or the identity of that item. You can enhance it, you can add enchantments to it, but it's still the item it is.^[90] – Steven Sharif

Switching gear

Weapon swapping in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.^[91]

Weapon swapping in the Ashes of Creation MMORPG will be subject to a cooldown period following any damage taken or done by the player.^[92]^[93]

The cooldown will be in the range of a few seconds.^[93]

For the MMORPG we want there to be some time between damage received or damage done before you can swap your weapon. It's not going to be substantial. It will maybe be a few seconds.^[93] – Steven Sharif

Players cannot switch armor while in combat.^[92]^[94]

Trading gear

Ashes of Creation concept art.^[95]

There will be player to player trading in Ashes of Creation.^[96]^[97]

Q: Will Ashes of Creation have player-to-player trading? Will there be anything stopping me from gifting a friend that's fresh to the game a bunch of in-game money to help them get on their feet quickly?

A: There won't be anything to stop you from doing that.^[96] – Steven Sharif

Sharing gear with alts

Es wird eine komfortable Anzahl an Charakter-Slots für Alts (Twinks) geben.^[98]^[99]

Fortschritt ist in Ashes of Creation an den Charakter gebunden.^[100]
Ausrüstung kann zwischen Charakteren transferiert werden.^[101]
- Der Transfer von Ressourcen und Materialien zu Twinks wird nur über die Lagerplätze in Spielerbehausungen möglich sein.^[102]
Skins können den Charakteren innerhalb eines Accounts neu zugewiesen werden, möglichweise gibt es hierfür eine Abklingzeit.^[103]^[104]^[105]
Alts innerhalb eines Accounts können verschiedene Berufe haben.^[106]

Es wird für Spieler eine angemessene Anzahl an Charakter-Slots geben, da wir ein Abo-Modell-Spiel sind.^[99] – Steven Sharif

Item rarities

Item rarities in Ashes of Creation.

Legendäre Gegenstände

There is a small RNG chance of looting rare and legendary items or crafting materials from mobs based on the level, status and type of mob. This also applies to harvesting resources with a gathering profession.^[113]

There is a much higher chance that materials and unique recipes are dropped that can be used to craft items of equitable value.^[114]^[115]^[116]
Legendary equipment is only dropped by Legendary world bosses.^[117]
- Legendary equipment will have a roughly 6-12% improvement in base stats, subject to testing and balancing.^[118]

At each stage from Gatherer to Processor to Crafter you are required to have certain prerequisites before those elite types of materials can be essentially gathered, processed, or crafted.^[115] – Steven Sharif

Gatherers must have high quality tools to gather rare resources.^[115]
Processors must have high tier processing buildings on their freehold to produce rare materials.^[115]
Crafters must also satisfy certain prerequisites to craft legendary equipment.^[115]

The amount of effort needed and interdependencies across the different types of players – between raiders and PvPers and crafters and even role players and the taverns and businesses: the processors and gatherers – all of those systems will likely have a component that lends toward creating or crafting that legendary item... We want to stay away from the highly RNGd system, and instead take our multiple progression paths that we are offering the players and put the construction components for achieving these legendary items within them so it encourages communities to work together because it's going to be difficult for just one person by themselves to gather everything. Not to say that they couldn't in an economic sense, by buying those components, that's possible. But achieving them from a time investment standpoint we want it to be considerably less RNG focussed.^[116] – Steven Sharif

Discovery of legendary items will unlock further chapters of the Überlieferungen.^[119]

There are absolutely legendary items and they're not items that are attained easily nor are they granted out in a volume. There might even be items that are single items that will exist on the server at any given time.^[120]

A legendary weapon is easily distinguished by its visual appearance.^[116]

It will be a very ornate and detailed weapon, more so than any other weapon or piece of equipment in the game. It will also include some awesome looking effects that won't too gaudy, you know they won't be too bright and shiny so that it doesn't look good, but they will be subtle and people will notice it and know wow that guy has this weapon.^[116] – Steven Sharif

Legendary items are not intended to be temporary.^[121]

A notable exception to this is Royal mounts.^[122]

The fact there is only one of them... or very very few of them depending on what it is. I think that in and of itself is a balance component right and you need to make sure that the players who are striving for those legendary things and who are devoting the time energy, resources in order to achieve them are accurately rewarded... We do not intend on having legendary items that are temporary.^[121] – Steven Sharif