actually, a number of the pieces of equip are pretty good. The helmet is better than any other eb helmet in my view. The mesmeric ring is also nice for spy defense in osw. The stats on the trinket are quite good as well. It's not just equip for the eb's. It's useful, even if it is very defensive oriented.
Its been out over a year right?...devs obviously dont care. They are literally telling you if you want good equip buy xtals and war. They wont kill their cash cow.
Gloves,armor and boots are great too...the worst equip is the dragon minion...his stats are the worse for the hardest that is to get the scrolls.anyway i agree that dragon equip is defensive...as it happened with the blue equip with exo...
We really don't need scrolls to be a pay to win item. Perhaps a spell that increases scroll drop rates is a feasible option for the devs although I feel like this would need to be gold or mith related. I doubt the devs would do this seeing as there is no real need to boost the drop rates currently. The dragon ebs are meant to take time to progress through. If only HTE were removed then they would be doing a better job at stalling for another set of ebs which are surely on the way.
I've done plenty of wars without xstals, it's always an option in indi if you're fast enough. I think I used 10 xstals during s4 in its entirety.