Been rather inactive for quite a while, and it seems a lot of shiny new things have been added in my absence!

What's the generally favored melee-dragon equipment look like these days? Any quest-reward tech kits that are must-haves? New quested abilities in the same vein? Oh—and which dragon tech kits are actually useful? I think it was still being debated when I was last paying attention.

I'm familiar with the broken scales, but not the new epic-loot system, if that says anything of the timeframe for what I may have missed.