
Did the first few quests, and noticed the armour looked all different and non-halas-y. Then I got to the quest for the hat, and my tank was offered a boring looking standard barbute, no horny hat.

Aparently SOE ninja changed all the starter gear so it's the exact same gear with the exact same appearance in all the starter zones now. I remember when they added New Halas, everyone I talked to was saying how cool the starter gear there looked and how nice it was to be able to get something good looking from quests as opposed to paying for it for a change...should have known it was too good to last.

So what happened to those cool graphics? They added new appearance only stuff (with the original New Halas starter gear graphics) which is sold in New Halas by two merchants for gold and status points. Great, except those merchants won't sell to me because I am not Halas aligned.

Oh, but the stuff is heirloom so I could just buy it with a Halas aligned alt right? Yeah I could, if I had any Halas aligned alts on that account (which I don't) or if I had any free slots (which I don't). So instead of questing for my cool looking gear I would have to either delete a character or pay SOE another $10 for an extra slot or do the betrayal quest.
All this hassle to get something which I could have gotten without wasting any money/deleting characters/betraying my city a couple months ago.
