I noticed the tone when I read it too and can't say I was happy with it. The message that the game is tested and played repeatedly, although I understand they may not play it quite as much as some of us, it makes me wonder how they are actually playing to have kept that number. My titan got down to 20 parts last night and I used my alts to feed weapon parts from stuff they had that I haven't had time to use with them - I had another 200 parts roughly. Armour parts on the other hand......I saw someone quote 10:1 for armour to weapon drop ratio and this seems to fit with my experience (and 3oC drops too strangely). I agree with a lot of what's been said, and in part seems to show the path of development - PoE etheric drops being effectively uselss for the main part, yr2 wiping out all yr1 items and the relevance of its content. Maybe I'm just not playing it the way it was intended to be but I thought that the idea was for everyone to be able to play in their own way.