Frank wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2016 at 12:11am:
Repeating yourself doesn't make you right. There aren't a huge pile of <L8 drops with blue augment slots. There are a few, and they may or may not fit in with a leveling gear set. I've done a good many HPLs without a blue slot on my gear at all. So I got my 100 Fort from a CC belt or ring. Problem solved, and I didn't have to farm some heroic dungeon for a btc piece of armor that can't be worn by every class and doesn't work with every build. And then farm another few heroic dungeons for my other classes and builds. That's just a stupid suggestion for a 'solution.'
Just like Digimook you are conflating 'possible' with 'easy and convenient.'
Sticking your head in the sand and claiming that there are not plenty of readily available ML8 named items with blue aug slots doesn't make you right.
Same list with acquisition method and slot added:
Mysterious Bracers (Level 7) - Turn in 1000 mysterious remnants - bracers
Sigil of Stormreach - Delera's arc end reward - ring
Spectacular Optics - Threnal arc end reward - goggles
Krugg's Spiked Boots - Splinterskull arc end reward - boots
Black Wolfskin Cloak - Splinterskull arc end reward - cloak
Hellfire Cloak - Delera's arc end reward - cloak
Mysterious Cloak (Level 7) - Turn in 1000 mysterious remnants - cloak
Rabbit Gloves - - Threnal arc end reward - gloves
Headman's Hood - Delera's arc end reward - helm
Glacial Casque - Threnal arc end reward - helm
Crystal Prism - Threnal arc end reward - necklace
That list also does not include the named options for the armor slot. There are 3 to 10 of those per armor type with varying degrees of acquisition difficulty as well.
These are end rewards from mission arcs that most players run at least once per life. Hell, even if those arcs are too hard for you, it's easy to join an LFM for them and mostly pike it while zergers roll through them. The Mysterious bracers and cloak are remnant turn in rewards. It would be hard not to have enough remnants for the bracers or cloak by the time you do your first TR assuming you're not too gimp to run missions at or below level.
Between multiple armor options and the accessory list above, you have BTA options for at least 9 slots that require little to no special farming effort other than just running missions at or below level and selecting the arc end rewards. Several of those items are fairly build agnostic.
The mysterious bracers and cloak are useful for any build at that level. 15 exceptional healing amp and 11 insightful MRR plus a green and a clear aug slot is highly useful for any build at that level.
There may also be blue slot items with a ML lower than 8. I didn't bother to look though since the heavy fort aug is ML 8. I'm not going to spoon feed you everything.
If you can't acquire and slot at least one of those with minimal effort, you make Fran look like a DDO rockstar. We're talking about low level heroics... Multiple people have run through those with minimal/no gear. They don't require absolute min/max gear sets to run.
The only reason you have done multiple lives without a blue aug slot item is your own self-imposed stupidity (like Fran and his desire to run a Turn Undead spec'd solo EE capable build).
Since it seems I'm beating a dead horse at this point, the only other response I can provide to your attestations that acquiring and slotting a ML8 named item with a blue aug slot is too hard is to ask the following: Have you considered trying a lower difficulty?