T4T2FR34K wrote: »

It just amazes me that because I joined the game Oct 8th and the forums Oct 20th that it is in fact MY FAULT and so many of you jump to defend the staff vs your own peers...all the likes and agrees...how have you become so brain washed...is this some twisted version of the Stockholm syndrome...are you the actual team coming to champion your game with your Clark Bent pseudonyms...how is it that an OBVIOUS error on their part draws ridicule and hate towards the victim...will you tell your daughters/sons, your mothers/fathers the same thing when someone overtly/covertly does them wrong through neglect or intent...im curious...how do you look at yourself in the mirror?

thus we fall, they divide us

You haven't been playing long. So what you are lacking is perspective.

Okay, yes, they should've updated the item description when they made that change. That's their fault. Go submit a bug report. Post this in the bug report forum. Pester them to change the description to be more explicit.

But there's a snowflake's chance in hell they'll compensate you in any way. If you've played the game long enough, you'll know that gold mats come and go easily. Most people have golded out countless sets. And countless golded out sets have been rendered obsolete/useless with each "balance" patch. And that they consider such gold mat sinks to be a good and necessary thing.

Also, as people have pointed out, you should always test out a set before golding it. Always. The onus was on you to make sure you really wanted this before spending the resources. I'm not talking about item description or websites or anything like that--the research that everyone must do is actually testing a set out in live gameplay. Make a CP150 blue set, go play around with it. A lot of sets have behaviors, restrictions, or caveats that are not obvious or stated in the tooltip. I don't care that websites don't warn you. I don't care if the in-game description doesn't warn you. None of that is relevant, because the only research that matters is a live test, and there is no substitute for that.

And even if it wasn't your fault, they never have--and never will--compensate people for things like this. And this again goes back to perspective--if you've played this game as long as people have, you'll realize how petty this complaint is. I get it--you're new, gold mats are probably extremely precious to someone as new as you, so you think that this is a big deal. But it's not, and nobody will take this "refund" request of yours seriously.

But you could and should get them to change the description text, though.