The update will be soon and what will become obsolete?EP5 looks awesome in Shaiya.Great new skills,new turf to roam, new gear and weapons(shaiya money)and of course the new level Cap.However,when the level(shaiya powerleveling)cap is raised and new gear comes out will all that time,effort and money spent on those high end gears be obsolete?You would like to know because if the gear becomes obsolete and you won't bother making your gear uber because you only have 1 shot at it.You can't afford AP every month by the cartloads,but with the large amount you have right now and you would like to make gear that will be uber in the present as well as having assurance that it will remain uber in the future.
Regarding the gear issue,you'd reckon that since the new armour or weapons are of higher level and the orange stats that can be obtained will be more,but not by much compared to the current goddess gear.Consider it as grinding in map4 using your uber 20-30 gear,you won't be able to dish out the kind of damage someone would at 54 wearing full goddess gear lapised to the max but you won't be bad either.You was using your 20-30 gear as a 54UM hunter and was able to deal over 1k dmg that consistently using the right ele.Now with full Legends and level 54 bow and your dmg exceeds 2k quite easily.As a comparison,20-30 gear did serve you well.So that imagine this situation with the new gears of EP4.5 vs the old one.
All you wanna know is will there be instanced parts of the maps and that being said,where we won't have to worry about petty KS'ing issues while grinding all the time?Couple things to address here for the original poster.You may already be aware of this,but your wording makes it unclear.The update we're getting soon and as in that likely this weeks maintenence is not episode 5,but episode 4.5 or some such.We may get a raised level cap to 65 with this update,but it isn't entirely clear if this will happen.What will be released for certain in this update is the caelum sacra dungeon jungle sky city and likely some new high end lapis to go with it.Episode 5 is more likely to get to us late in the year and this is the one that will include the level cap jumping to 70 and full maps to grind in.The diffence between which say,goddess dragon gear and goddess 60+ gear will be minimal as already stated.Its still going to be 6 slotted gear,with the same number of base yellow stats built in.There will be a small increase in base HP bonus and such and the orange stat potential will be a bit higher.