[Gromdelin]

I found this over on the Sony boards.

Dev-Ngreth

The decision has been made to make no changes to the stats on cultural. We believe the armor to be unbalanced in its current state, but we are opting to take the "wait it out" approach rather than making changes to the armor. We will just let them become obsolete over time.

There are consequences to not making any changes. We do consider this armor and the combinations that it can make to be too powerful so we will not be able to continue cultural the way it is in the future. We have multiple options that we are considering for smithing and tailoring but it is likely that we will not include cultural armor in the future of either of these.

We will be making a few changes, but these are all minor upgrades that benefit some classes that were left out. We will be adding a set of seals with a chromatic focus, and adding bard instrument mods to some of the melee centric focus. We have no eta on either of these changes, though the chromatic focus is likely to go in sooner because it has been prepared already. We cannot put it in now though because it would not be able to be tested for the patch. The bard instrument mods will need some extra time and are likely to be a while.

[Wendaen]

this is good news, now i just need to find someone to make my tunic for me )
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[Shieara]

They also are changing the aa exp rate, but I can't link it. Most gaming sites are blocked at work.

[Dashlen]

The aa xp rate was not listed among the update notes for the 28th. Surely does not mean it is not going to be in effect when the servers come back up.

[Kalakob]

who knows when it will start

[Shieara]

Yah it was removed from this update for more tweaking. My sources say next patch.