Hasla weapons was catch up gear too, back in the days when delphinad was the top tier in crafted gear.
History of Gear
"Throughout the development of Archeage we’ve always had really two options for gear. We’ve had the Crafted line and something other.
At first it was a difference of Crafted and Obsidian, but while Obsidian was a good catch up gear set, it became ridiculous expensive and time consuming in patches 4.0 and 4.5. While Obsidian gear made someone stronger than someone using Delphinda/Ayanad, unless you
1) got it to Epic/Legendary and
2) got it to Tier 7 (Tier 4 in 4.5)
You were sort of stuck with gear you couldn’t upgrade and you couldn’t risk regrading.
In 5.0 they have discontinued Obsidian Gear recipes, which means you can continue to use the Obsidian Gear that you have, but you cannot create any more Obsidian nor can you upgrade any Obsidian that you have. Obsidian can be turned into Hiram Infusions or Erenor Infusions.
The catch up gear is now the Hiram gear that you hear about in several places."
Archeage content creator that work with Trion for several years, and what is saying about gear.
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