New Epic Armor

New Epic Boss Armors

Starting on July 12th, 2016, a new Epic Boss reward system was introduced with the returning Epic Boss Magician, allowing players to reach a new level in the Epic Boss reward tiers. As before, after first crafting the Regular version of the armor and upgrading it to level 35, you can collect 50 more materials (usually by reaching level 43 in the reward tiers) and craft the Plus (+) version of the armor.

With the new reward tier, once you have leveled up your + version (it appears that you only have to reach level 10) and collect 50 more materials (normally achieved after reaching over level 60 -- or have collected the materials from the previous time the boss appeared), you can craft the Plus Plus (++) version of the armor. Also, once you reach level 62, you will receive 50 more materials and can craft a fourth set of the armor (either + or ++).

It appears that this trend will continue for the foreseeable future; the rewards for a given Epic Boss may change based on the level reached, of course (such as Shadowforged materials).

Trivia

 * If the existing list of Epic Bosses is maintained, all of the previous Epic Boss Armors will have been re-used within just over a year. In other words, if a new Epic Boss appears every week as usual, Thunderbird (who gives materials for crafting the Avian Stormguard) would be reappearing on October 17th, 2017.


 * Using a rough calculation of the total stat increase per armor for the + version of the previous Epic Boss armors, there's roughly an 11 point increase in total stats (attack + defense) for each new armor. So, if that rate of increase remains the same, the stats for the Avian Stormguard++ would be about 726 stat points higher than Conjured Battlegear++, or roughly 2449 each for attack and defense (a total of 4897). These stats are significantly higher than the current Avian Stormguard+ armor stats and would be almost as strong as the strongest Epic Armor available, the Dread-pirate Finery, which has a total stat of 4952. This is still only conjecture, since the new ++ armors may have a higher rate of increase from one set of armor to the next.