Hello,
I am (was) playing a melee character with dual wield raider axes.
Crafting this axes took me many tries, many runes and many broken axes.
When I started the game after the last patch, I discovered that these axes had just disappeared and were replaced with some random crap items (crescent axes).
These axes have melee lightning damage and lightning penetration which is utterly useless for a pure physical melee char.
I’ve read before that the axes should be “reworked” in this patch, but this is ridiculous.
I went to lastepochtools to check if there was any other of the new axes which would have been closer to my previous raider axes in terms of stats.
Just to remember the stats of the (old) raider axe were:
- 48 melee physical damage
- +2-5% critical strike chance
And here are the stats of the (new) crescent axe:
- 28 melee physical damage
- 14-28 melee lightning damage
- 7-14% lightning penetration
As everyone can see these two axes have very little in common.
While browsing the lastepochtools DB I found another axe which would be much closer to the raider axe in terms of stats - it’s called Eagle Wing:
- 48 melee physical damage
- +3-4% critical strike chance
- 3-4% increased movement speed
If you really had to “rework” the axes then it would have made much more sense to replace the old raider axes by the new eagle wings, instead of the crescent axes.
It really feels like I just wasted my time and now I have to fear that with the next patch again some items might just disappear / being replaced.