The patch with the changes is estimated to go live toward the end of September. From the SOE forums:
This change will nullify the usage of all existing drops in the cultural armor crafting process.
Those of you who have stockpiles will want to make use of them as best and quickly as possible, as once the changes go in, the currently existing cultural recipes will no longer work.
There will be no exchange of the drops. The entire goal of these changes is to balance the drops, not create a surplus of the drops.
There will be a means for you to ‘learn' the new recipes easily as a means to prevent you guys having to ‘experiment' to learn all the new recipes. This will be provided via books in game that you can ‘scribe' by right clicking them to learn all of the recipes associated with that book. These books will start out inexpensive, though we are considering increasing the price in a couple months to something more appropriate, so you'll want to make sure you get them as soon as possible.
These changes should currently be available on the test server. You can find the new books on historians in Abysmal Sea, Plane of Knowledge, and Crescent Reach. You can simply scribe these books to automatically have the recipes added to your recipe containers.
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