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Draft 1
Heated Debate- The Frozen Blaze Armor and Blaze Pet

When it was first introduced, Frozen Blaze was one of the most expensive armor pieces in the game due to requiring 4 stacks of Enchanted Packed Ice. what did you get from such a large amount of materials? an armor piece barely better than the best set at the time: Superior Armor. However, this all changed when the Pets Update rolled around and gave the Frozen Blaze a companion in the form of a Blaze Pet. This pet has good perks. It boosted your stats while on the Blazing Fortress(Now Crimson Isle), it also doubled effects of Hot Potato Books and Fuming Potato Books. however, it's most significant perk is the ability to boost the stats of Frozen Blaze(and regular Blaze) Armor by up to 40% At Level 100!

This should make it a proper Superior Armor competitor, right? Unfortunately, despite getting a Blaze Pet, its still worse than Superior. In fact, by May of 2020, it got a buff by gaining a whopping 40 total Strength and increased Defense on all pieces, but it's still not enough.

It wasn't until almost a year later where Frozen Blaze was finally given attention by the community. It's rarity was buffed to Legendary, allowing it to attain Mythic rarity and have a more powerful Ancient reforge, which is the most common reforge applied to all damage armor pieces at that time. The community was now trying to determine whether it could compete with the new best set at the time, which was Necron Armor

It divided the community, with some agreeing that Frozen Blaze is better, but some refused this, and showed statistical evidence and damage tests that Necron Armor is still better.

Despite that, Frozen Blaze prevailed, and not for the reason you'd think. Introducing: Pet Stacking

As people figured out ways to speed up slaying of Tier 4 Voidgloom Seraphim, one discovered Pet Stacking. It was complicated to setup but it essentially gave you the perks of both the Blaze Pet and another pet of your choice. After the discovery, people started to use weird setups such as 2/4 Final Destination, Frozen Blaze Chestplate and a Warden Helm to take advantage of the exploit. Blaze Pet is a popular pet to abuse pet stacking with due to it's abilities to both boost Frozen Blaze Armor stats and double effects of Hot Potato Books.

While Pet Stacking mostly fell out of favor due to full Final Destination being the new optimal setup for Voidglooms, it didn't matter for the lifespan of Frozen Blaze and Blaze pet as they found new life as a good armor set to traverse the Crimson Isles with.