CR changes only affects new drops, not existing gear

This comes many, many hours too late for player who saw that their entire stash contents of pre-farmed INF3 / Paragon 1000 items now had lower CR values than newly dropped INF2 items had, and salvaged their entire Stash contents.

The initial decision to not run a database update to adjust existing items’ CR (we know this is possible because it’s exactly what was done in the patch where CR was separated from attributes months ago) was pretty woeful. How could you not have foreseen that invalidating 1-2 months of your players’ time would be an issue for them?

Lots of people saw that newly dropped INF2 items had higher (indeed, much higher) CR values than absolutely every INF3/Paragon 1000 item in their Stashes, came to the resigned conclusion that their Stash contents had been rendered worthless, salvaged everything in there, and proceeded to start re-farming.

So, whilst you might be adjusting the INF3/Paragon 1000 items that players still have, I presume you’re going to do absolutely nothing for the players who salvaged them?

How did you guys not see this being the result of not updating existing items?

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