I'm almost wondering if OOO is deliberately leaving T3 lockdown unbalanced so as to encourage smart people to build out and use 1* and 3* sets again. It wasn't that long ago that I was reading threads on the forums complaining about abandoned low-spec weapons (myself included).

But with T3 lockdown balanced so heavily towards damage and away from defense, resulting in spending more time dead than playing, I now have an excuse to dust off my hot edge and firecracker, cook up an emberbreak set, and go have some fun lighting people on fire in T1. Or, as I've been doing mostly, bounce people around with my baby nitronomes (aka super blast bomb) in T2.

Never before have I felt such an urge to make a Super Slime Slasher and go bash people with a shovel.

Given that they payout is the same in every tier, OOO might just be doing us a favour.