The best idea ever is.. TO GET RID OF RANK 8 RECAST. Make that crap obsolete.
Dragon gear was nice. Yeah, everyone had the same gear, but it was a lot more balanced. The moment rank 8 recast became an option is when balance took a turn for the worse. If the option to have something better than others is there, someone is going to go for it regardless of how much it costs or if it is a luck based thing. With how easy it is for some to get EC when 2x is up, the amount of people with such gear skyrocketed. Especially an assassin, which is the class that has it the easiest to farm EC. I mean really.. this is obvious.
The only way to fix this is to introduce the next gear set, which will be amazing if it follows the Dragon path.
Ascended Dragon Gear
And to give it some variety, make two different sets of each gear type. Defensive and offensive. Actually more than that will be needed because some people play differently. For example, some assassins like dps.. some like aps.. have a set that gives either option. If it can be done, restrict the sets so that only one can be obtained. Another reason some people become more op is because they switch gears mid fight. I don't see how it's fair for people who have more epic coins to have the best of both worlds when many others only have one thing goin for them.
For all those who say it isn't fair to those who have spent so much on rank 8 recast. Hm.. this a game that is constantly introducing new content. You chose to spend incredible amounts of money to get the best gear at the present time knowing that sooner or later, something new would be coming to expand the game. Get over it.
Bye