Quote Originally Posted by Verizal View Post
Based on this role, it would then provide a piece of gear with role-specific states (or set bonuses). The way that I believe it functions right now, is that you could theoretically switch trait lines before claiming/looting, and you would be provided with gear relevant to that spec (a feature I'm not necessarily opposed to). HOWEVER, I still need to play around with things a bit. Also, the intent would be to have this in more sooner than later, but I can't give definites on a release yet.
Hmm, that might help a little when you're after gear for your selected spec, but often I might use a spec because I already have the gear for it, in that case it would be counter-productive. And all the auto-selection mechanics are going against the "promotion of choice" that was one of the marketing points of the class revamp. Is it really such a big deal to add another option (like the "medal upgrade" option) in the EB UI to convert medals into barter tokens? So instead of one piece of gear you get one barter token, and barter cost for gear is 3-5 tokens (maybe 10-20 for golds if you're fancy). Would keep the current random aspect viable as it's way faster to get gear that way but minimize frustration for those people that prefer optimizing their gear.