Quote Originally Posted by RiverBummer View Post
With respect to the comments that advance the idea that you can't use an equipment plan that is beyond the boss you can take out due to inaccessibility to components you are wrong.
It may take a while but there are RANDOM drops of components all the time coming in from arena and other venues beyond the frontiers that you can access. I have been collecting many guardian components that way for a long time and have not yet broken through the guardian sword drop boss in one world.

Why not go back to the old system and drop the more advance plans ALONG with some random quota of components too?
Funny you should say that, but material drops for level 70 plans aren't going INto my inventory any more. Took a while to notice, but I've had exactly the same number of violets, vases, beath teeth et al for weeks now despite having won them multiple times in arena and lab.