Well, according to the most recent stream, Black Ice weapons will no longer require Hardened Steel weapons as a core.
Which is the most oblique fix to an “upgrade” actually being a down grade.
Potentially, the thought was Black Ice, with it’s cold snap ability, would be a PvP power house and this needed a stat nerf. Mind you, anyone who plays PvP with any regularity would note that cold snap is mild inconvenience at worst.
Dragonbone weapons now apply stacking Sunder on each hit. That, unlike Cold Snap, is a useful status anomaly and this one is happy to give up a little stat for such easy access to Sunder on weapons that normally wouldn’t have it. Your mileage may vary.
Also, farming Dragons is about as easy as gathering materials for Hardened Steel. While the feat was (is it still?) Level 60 gated, that’s done in a few days.
As far as Telith’s swords…
This one knows not. Perhaps they thought they are just upgrades on Hardened Steel, and consider the Heart a trivial component.
This one disagrees because of how long it takes to farm such materials, but that could be the tortured logic.
Moving on to the Khari gear…
Who the cluck knows, perhaps they consider the wine cellar it’s own reward and the RNG recipes to be for cosmetic purposes only?
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