New Items - Progressive or Regressive?

[Zynzyn]

For month after month, year after year, event after event, the community asked for less vanities and more game-changing rewards for events. And yet, the main course of this latest Winter event is vanity again with some eggs and jewels on the side! The irony of this is baffling.

So the legendary gear inside the chests, again, very predictably, has worse stats than the Icescale sets and similar stats as that of the recently held older event gear. Why must we use older obsolete gear? Why is the newer gear not better ? Is this progressive itemization?

The Enchanted Eye of Syrillax did not return. Its a huge disappointment. As it gives the player some good crit and combined stats, it is needed to be at par with older players who played in last years Winter event. No, jewels with their level limit and single stat boost cannot make up for it, whatever you say. But alright fine it did not return.

So what is sts doing to phase out the event special Eye which it has decided not to bring back because a phasing out is apparently required? What will close the gap between the ones who had the good fortune to play last year and those who did not? For phasing out the old event special gear and eye jewels in those gear, may we ask what is being done? Ok fine dont phase it out. Atleast bring back items that are equal to the older event-special items. Progression cannot occur if we have to keep using older gear.

The stats of the new gear are not something that will phase out the old stuff. Why is it not? Is a full long year not enough?