I’ve got another idea! To go along with yours @hasty monolith. You did mention adding a new orb, and I understand what you mean by how the orb works. I was wondering can the Shifting Orbs be adjusted so they only remove regular stats from gear, while keeping the star stats intact when used on a star stat gear? I used a Shifting Orb on a 2-star gear piece, and unfortunately, it wiped the star stats too.Your idea for a new orb would especially be useful for exotic gear that happens to drop a 2–3 star stats in a mission. If you end up adding that orb, maybe this tweak could go along with it. I’m not sure I’m explaining it perfectly, but hopefully that makes sense!
#Back to the orbs
boreal depot
And if you’re lucky enough to have both a regular stat and a star stat locked with the new orb you described at the same time, you can use a Shifting Orb to reroll only the unlocked regular stat, keeping the locked star stat untouched because of my idea I said above. Likewise, you can use a Utopic Orb to reroll any unlocked star stats into different star stat types.