[Salone]

That's another thing that has irked me, the yearlies. This year the yearlies are recolors of a collection of previous items that we've seen. Gallagher did an industriously amazing job of the massive range of recolors, and the labor involved is astronomical for pixel art, but I have to ask why we have recolors instead of new items?

I've bought my fair share of runes for the prospect of trading or picking up Monthlies and Yearlies, I won't lie. But the yearlies we have now are things we've been given before. I don't know if there was an issue with Trisphee's pixelists delivering new content that had to be patched up or if life things came up, and the massive content recolors has indeed allowed me to pick up variants of items I have missed in the past, but I do have to wonder why we're not seeing unique items. It seems that was the same case for the previous year's items as well, as I have many of the same thing, save for color variants. Are we just at a dead end for new unique Yearly items? I've been sitting on runes for a bit with the prospect of trading them, but most of the user base really has no need for them due to them already having the items featured in our current yearlies. Just seems there's no real reason to purchase premium currency if the things it buys are just rehashes, and it becomes worth less than aurum if no one wants it since they already have the originals of the rehashed items. It becomes a stagnant currency when it's designed to be the lifeblood of Trisphee.

There's great examples out there of legendary donation items. ml1201 has a wonderful avatar featuring quite a few. I'm a big fan of the Desert Nomad, and was happy to have picked one up back in the day on a trade. I see so many wonderfully inspired and perfectly executed examples of donation items of years in the past, and as they progress on it seems as if they've waned until finally our colorists are putting more work in to them than the pixelists. If we're down a pixelist or something, I would love to see more hired. Believe me, I have no problem purchasing more runes if it means we can see a return to the same standard of items we have had in the past. If our current lineup is overworked, is there any chance of finding another to help ease the workload?

EDIT: I would love to see style variations as well. As long as Trisphee has been around, we only have 2 examples of firearms, the weapons are nearly outlandish in their fantasy themes, and I can't help but feel that most of the casual clothing caters to a particular style. If we could see more examples of ranges of fashions and other items and accessories, and go in more than one direction with their design, that would be grand.

EDIT TO THE EDIT: Hi again. Sorry to whine. But it has just occurred to me that I've been posting more to save up for Eggs, which have original, unique items. I suppose the new question I'm asking is why do the aurum-related items have well-done unique items when the items that require premium currency consist of nothing but (well done mind you) recolors of older items? This just seems backwards to me.