Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5158113-20131103020610/@comment-24108837-20131108102803

Packmann wrote:

For example, the distinction of whether an armor is craftable or not is important b/c non-craftable armors generally have better stats than craftable sets. This used to be relatively evident b4 recent Epic Boss stats started creeping upward, yet non-craftable+ versions are still better than EB+ armors. Normal non-craftables also level-up at faster rates than normal craftable sets. I don't think the term craftable is ambiguous, even expired Epic Boss materials can be obtained through the Summoning Stone (although it is a completely ridiculous way to gain mats) as long as you've 'Unlocked the Epic Boss' you can always get those mats. Since many older Epic Boss armors are now included in the fusion equation, knowing whether that particular armor was craftable or not would give you an indication about that armor's relative quality.

If you want to know an armours' strength you can also just look at the stats. Once you know the stats craftable / uncraftable adds zero information to it. Using craftable for low stats and uncraftable for high stats seems a bit silly to me. And as you say: currently the stats of newer craftable epic boss armours seems better than of older uncraftable ones.

Epic Boss armours are not craftable unless you can summon them. But what people can summon is not a  constant but dependent on the individual game history. Adding an epic boss armour to a craftable category would therefore be confusing and wrong from the viewpoint of new unexperienced players who can't summon it. We shouldn't do that.

Your older epic boss armours were always craftable in the past for players at the time. That is how the epic boss thing works. So as far as I know there are no epic boss armours that were never craftable. Maybe the very first 2 star ones, but you can not say they have better stats than craftable armours. On the contrary. Craftable 1 star + storyline armours often have better max stats than uncraftable 2 star normal armours.

The same goes for 3 star + storyline armours compared to older fusable 4 star normals. And 4 star + currently craftable epic boss armours compared to a lot of epic standards. Craftable/uncraftable says nothing about strength of the armour. And it shouldn't.