Considering season’s starting soon and the patch today this topic might not be very exciting to read but… In the pre-release leading up to D4 blizzard mentioned several times how armor from the fractured peaks would look different than something dropped in Kehjistan.
Was this just completely dropped? The only exception I could see is that maybe the fur-lined set drops only in the fractured peaks while maybe the sand-worn set only dropps in the dry stepps or something but I haven’t done any testing to see if that’s true.
Having only one set be unique to each place also seems like a huge downgrade to what was originally promised.
Is there something I’ve missed? Also if I was right and fur-lined and sand-worn are unique to those zones what are the others?
I was trying to figure this out last night actually. The armor for each zone doesn’t seem to only drop in those zones but there are some sets that I think correlate to each area.
Fractured Peaks - Fur Lined and/or Weathered
Scosglen - Highland
Dry Steppes - Heavy and Glorious
Kehjistan - Sand Worn
Hawezar - Coven (this is the only one I am not 100% sure on)
I got my Coven in other places. It does not seem limited to one zone.
None of them are limited. That was the issue I had trying to figure it out.
This might confirm my worry that this talked about feature was dropped for some reason.
I mean the armor sets definitely correlate they just aren’t limited to the loot pool of those zones.
Boneweave is another one. Not sure if its Steppe or Kehjistan. Highland set, Striders, Weathered, Heavy, Hide, Warlord, Covens, etc
those ones specifically plus a couple I have forgotten seem to have their own zones they can drop in
That’s true but at the same time it’s one thing to say “armor dropped from certain zones have unique looks” and “some armors are designed in the style of certain zones.”
Honestly the devs are horrible with clarity and misspeak about things all the time. So I am not surprised. But I went around last night farming in different zones to try to see if only certain armor types dropped in certain zones and they don’t as far as I could tell. Though early on the only armor set I was missing was Glorious and it dropped when I started questing in Dry Steppes so IDK. Maybe they have an increased drop rate in their respective zones?
I didn’t really pay much attention though when leveling up. Maybe with season 1 I will try and see if there is more of a correlation when it all resets.
That’s possible too. I assumed stuff was just level based in general. Like I didn’t get exceptional stuff until around in my 40s. Now at 50 starting to get boneweave but I never thought it was zone related. Maybe it is. I did the story in order so if it happened to be zone related then I would have just assumed it was levels.
Yeah I’ll pay more attention to what happens when I play season
Yeah I did the story in order too but the problem is I got a bunch of stuff from Orbols and as far as I can tell that is just random and pulls from the entire loot pool. I think I was more paying attention to trying to unlock all the legendary sets so I wasn’t paying as close attention to the regular sets. The only one I definitely remember coming from a specific zone was Glorious.
Now that I think of it I remember unlocking Coven pretty early. Way before I was in Hawezar so either that theory is wrong or Coven doesn’t go with that zone. Hawezar is tricky because there are a bunch of influences in that zone. It is heavily populated by the Crusaders and Church of the Light folk. Thera are people native to the area but there also seem to be refugees from other areas and there are pirates.