I don't understand why they didn't simply implement kage TI and wholly avoid this.

There are a ton of people in older servers than mine that are full of tools with old BF hard mode secondary gold stats (overall those +4 resistances) that have no reasons to destroy them to reforge the theoretically better ones that came after the various nerfs and they continue to go on like if they altogether removed them.

If, at least, this TI granted red natures would be somehow a decent tradeoff for people in old servers, but grants only yellow ones.

Personally speaking i'll just get the pan for collection (i have a very good sword from pain ti), but considering it scales like a gold tool and not like a red tool is not worth to go for it for any other reasons.