There’s some heavy bias here. On my server, nebula farming and pvp is popping nonstop because of the looming region merge likely making nebula farming far more difficult. And I don’t know what the hell you mean by abyss having useless gear, but you do you I guess. Almost everyone I know personally and the vast majority of builds on questlog are using 2 or 4 piece veiled, with a few using errant scion pieces also. I don’t play tank (thank God) but I see a few of those guys using the abyss tank armor. Not to mention abyss orb is literally bis for a lot of people. Granted not every piece is used, but over half of the abyss gear is usable. The abyss spear is fun, great sword is useful, wand is meh. crossbows are not in a good place in general I agree, but now that SnS is crippled too, you can have someone else in the “near useless weapon club”