Quote Originally Posted by Grimdi View Post
Well, they're removing gold items from instances, so you'll be disappointed anyway ...

As for concerns regarding survivability, the new 95 gear will give everyone a huge amount of vitality (all new gear has a large slice of vitality), that will likely offset most nerfs in emergency skills.
Thanks, good to know! Though it is indeed disappointing to know that gold items are gone - I only got one in about 15 character-months of playing this level cap (on the very first run, too... ). So nice, but so *very* rare...

I saw in another thread that seals are gone too (well, will only come from raids (not sure what raids), but the last on-level raid I ever saw was a Draigoch 13 months ago, and that one was like pulling teeth to get to happen...). So it sounds like we'll be going from a setup where scaled instances are the primary content to run, to scaled instances being completely pointless and irrelevant to the game. Or will we be running certain specific scaled instances for the cyan armor drops? Not for the jewelry, one assumes, since apparently that's what the Big Battles will be giving us.

Always happy to have more vit, so that part sounds good. I assume this is the Big Battles jewelry you're referring to? Nobody seems to have seen any sign of level 95 armor sets yet.