You can watch it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/soe/b/327199008 (it is 21 minutes 25 seconds long)
Don't want to watch it? Read below for its highlights, click any image for a bigger size, comments in [] are from me :P
Highlights with approximate timestamps where it starts:
Launching on August 15 (0:50)
FAQ and extra stuff up sometime on August 3 (1:20)
Augmentation system made easier, no longer need to use an augment pool, All Augments work this way now (2:35)
Get set of armor when you purchase it, find pieces from normal gameplay, can mix and match pieces, can swap it in and out, check appearance (3:10)
Appearance system, no stats, not selling power right now (4:00)
"Hundreds" of pieces of armor will drop in game for you to use (5:30)
New styles, new colors, drops from bosses, raid bosses, doing missions, achievements, tradeskill option (6:12)
Absor says mr toads wild ride is the best (6:51)
Get drops on the actual raid boss, loot from boss not chest, in missions it may be in mission chest, some rare NPCs have a chance to drop them, and some come from achievements, in the future more pieces may be gotten from normal loot, like level 10 NPCs for low levels, Level 10+, Tradeskills at any level (7:30)
Image of Armor Overview: (8:30)
Armor works for all races all classes, equal to the armor type you are wearing (9:38)
There will be achievements for collecting full sets, once you wear it (10:45)
Image shows how difficult pieces will be to get the further down the harder it will be to get, except for thought bubble at bottom, green stuff is generally easier to get then red stuff, blue stuff is in the middle (11:00)
Image of the Basic set of Plate: (11:44)
You get the Plate piece as imaged above immediately on buying it, if you wear plate (11:55)
Get a reward set that has all 7 pieces in it after you buy it, they fit on all races (12:08)
They fit on all races, image below of a Froglok in Basic Plate: (12:20)
Absor says armor is amazing on Frogloks [Finally a reason to play that race?!], backflip in that plate (12:35)
Bloodforge set which is the next tier: (12:50)
Female model in Leather Basic Set: (13:29)
Basic Cloth Set: (13:55)
Ebon/Violet Leather, thinks Tradeskillers make this set (Colors might be off of what they are seeing so it may not be exactly of the 2 sets): (14:22)
Violet Leather on a Female model: (14:50)
Valiant Plate Set, will be a little harder to get, middle of road, mission chests in Veil of Alaris: (15:00)
Noble Plate Set on a Froglok: (15:41)
[Looks to be Insidious or Bloodforge Chain](15:58)
Noble version comes from Achievements in Veil of Alaris [The Mercenary Chains that were on Test?] (16:04)
A lot of the stuff is gonna come from Veil of Alaris, will already be there not waiting for future (16:11)
Noble from achievements, Valiant from Missions, Bloodforge from level 80+ Rare NPCs, Insidious Set Raid NPCs of level 98+ VoA and possibly higher HoT ones (16:26)
[Looks to be Insidious or Bloodforge Chain] (16:30)
[Looks to be Valiant or Noble cloth] (16:39)
"Looks like our Insidious Set" [Looks to be the Plate set]: (16:51)
Bloodforge Cloth: (17:06)
Eternal Grove Chain Set: (17:19)
Sylvan is rare NPCs 10+, Eternal Grove is Raid NPCs 80+ (17:31)
Except for the original set you get, every other piece is trade-able, you can collect them even before you buy into the system, they are attuneable and heirloom (18:16)
Future: Holiday items, like a santa's hat for frostfell, wizard pointy hat, robes, jack-o-lantern head/helmet, close-faced helmets instead of open, robes still restricted to classes that can use robes (19:20)
