Kinda hoped some of you may have had something to add, or thoughts as to whether it seems viable idea or not

SeñorCinco wrote: »

There is no need to learn them, really. They can be crafted at the locales. I would rather they remain as is, to maintain some sense of uniqueness.

Not every set can be crafted. The really useful ones can only be dropped, and that's the problem presented by the OP.
I believe that's to keep a certain balance between dropped gear and crafted gear, so they both offer different kinds of advantage.
I hate it and I would rather be able to craft everything.

This would be nice, though I do understand why zos decided to have dropped gear have different bonuses. However some of them are quite nice compared to the craftable ones ive seen. Given i am still below level 30 so im not sure what else is available. But i believe it is the Warlock set that drops and it automatically gifts you more magicka when running low, which is great. However those pieces dont usually have the other benefits i prefer
Im sure they will add more craftable sets down the road, but being able to research or craft something similar would be nice.

Malediktus wrote: »

Maybe if it takes 30 days or so to research after you got all 8 traits for an equipment piece.

This was kind of the idea I was going for.

I am now V2 and am wearing 6/7 pieces of Kyne's Flight set (which is great for Bow using NB's as 3 pieces gives +6 weapon damage, and 5 pieces gives 30% chance to slow target for 3 seconds)

The V1 set all has great stats (i've upgraded them all to blue) including the bow (which has Frost damage built into it)

It took me from the start of Stonefalls to hitting V2 before I managed to acquire 5 pieces, and I wanted the 6th so I could keep bonuses while using different weapon if need be.

The drawback (if you can call it that even) is they have have the same Trait on them (% reduced stamina from sneaking) and they all (i believe) have Stamina as their armour bonus - I would love to be able to re-trait some of them, and tweak the Stam to Health/Magika bonuses

Being a Clothier of Medium Armour speciality (I have 5 traits on all pieces, and 6 on 3 (with another 4 being researched over the next 2 weeks) - If after I've managed to research all 8 traits on all 7 armour slots - there doesnt appear to be much else to do with the crafting side - so a future endeavour would be to learn new sets - that not everyone else would necessarily have access to at the same time (others might specialise on Spellbased armour bonuses, or some such)

It would definitely need to have a great amount of time involved in researching each piece (30 days may be justified considering the benefit of the final result)

Having the set bonus, in a preferred racial style (eg: Primal/Ancient Elf - with a Barbaric bow), with specified traits (Crit, armour % etc) to my (or another players) character would be highly sought after by most players (I would imagine)

It would also (hopefully) reduce the amount of spam messages in general chat channel of players LF pieces from other players who may (or may not) have been lucky enough to find one - but knowing a player could (potentially) craft any of the specific pieces would be a great benefit, and money maker for those interested in commercial gain.

They said the 'best' sets would be drops only for the raiders and dungeon runs etc, change this and too many of them would complain.

But the best sets would need crafting to upgrade them to yellow.

My issue is a L1 blacksmith can upgrade a V10 drop to yellow, no 'skills' required at all to upgrade the item. So the point of crafting skills are????

Then again, I leveled my trade skills from breaking down items alone to sell the parts.

I would love to learn the other sets so I can mix a set over different armor types (light, medium, heavy all part of one set) But from the dev comments on other posts like this, its never going to happen.

But if they allowed me to UPGRADE a dropped set (increase its level, change a V1 set into a V10 set) and at the same time change its look (apply a different motif) Then that would fix both worlds. (Raiders and Crafters)