Let’s start with the good.  Right?  Good news first.

• New Dye Kits (some of which are decent!)
• New Crystals

I’ll spare you the details, because you can look it up on Dulfy.  But yay!  This almost puts me in a good mood until I read some more.

Augments and augment kits.  What the fuck?  Not only is this going to suddenly cost us new materials, but it will also require old materials.  And a shitload of them.  It does no good to trade in all the rank 8 mats for rank 9 since the rank 8 will be very much needed.

• Augment kits: 11 different mats/items, not counting the mats that go into the component parts.
• Augments: 8 different mats/items, not counting the mats that go into the component parts.

Eyeballing it, this will more than double the resource cost of making augments and kits.  My idiots better be bringing home some serious hauls of mats with each mission to make up for this.  But they won’t because I don’t have the money to bribe them, or the time, or the urge to use a third-party program to give them tiny gifts while I’m AFK (getting banned, I think not).

It sounded so good when the dev post mentioned it, so kind to grandfather in the old materials.  But the execution leaves much to be desired.  Oh and swearing.  Lots of swearing.