Talk:Asherah's Armor/@comment-24088165-20131121084418/@comment-23870891-20131123071119

Moontide is what I like to call a prototype epic, or proto-epic. Gree was testing the waters with epics, and made one strong relative to what armors most people had. But to keep people interested they had to make the epic boss armors stronger then older ones so people would keep playing. This made current boss armors nearly on par with moontide in terms of stats. At equal levels moontide is actually inferior to boss+ armors, needing the huge investment of 29 expensive levels to gain a slight advantage. To keep the epics epic, Gree had to make them stronger. All epics after moontide follow this trend. As a result, moontide sits in a dead zone of too expensive and not strong enough.

Moontide lvl 70 ~= 2228 and Asherah lvl 70 = 2566, a difference of about 338 stats in Asherahs favor.

Cost-wise Asherah is superior. If one has the materials to invest in getting moontide to lvl 99, it would be better spent leveling up a second epic boss+ armor.