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Stats get transfered to the new equipment?

1. Does that mean you require Empress/Tyrant/Abyss gear in order to get the new gear?
2. What's the point in getting the new gear if they use the stats of your old gear again? Better set bonuses?
3. Isn't this update supposed to be part of their new plan to make the game less pay2win? (Sounds like it from how easy the bosses apparently are to kill.) Getting Empress gear without cubing, cash shop, or friends that do either of the two is highly unlikely.

1. No, you can get the equipment but it would be clean and worse than 140 clean(iirc).
2. Yes somewhat better set bonus(not that big iirc).
3. The whole idea behind it is that you're able to upgrade your gear without having to recube to unique/legendary or get it back to 10 stars(not sure if scrolling gets transfered too).