Actually, the type one slot is for slot:all augments, like the dropped LDON augments, and some of the merchant sold ones. There actually are no type 1 augments.
After my second score of 1520 pts i went to the merchant to buy a cloak and the rage and paroxysm gear no longer exists :( At least my theme is unlocked but the secondary gear was pretty sharp. booo verant
Actually there is Leather, Chain, and Cloth in all camps now. All four (including plate) come in chest, legs, and bracer only though. Stats are roughly the same as other camps, but should help with people wanting to group in other ldon camps, besides the camp their top end armor comes from.
NM..was a bug, they have been pulled from camps now. They were not supposed to go live till Omens came out apparently.
Since the best LDoN plate was in Takish, you couldn't get the tanks, bards, or clerics out of that theme because they were working on getting the plate armor. As a result, it has been difficult if not impossible for the leather and chain classes to get groups together to go to the themes featuring those armors. Now with plate at all of the adventure camps, it is much more likely that you can get the plate classes out of Takish and into the other themes. This is why they did plate armor first IMHO. Although it wouldn't suprise me to see all armor classes represented at all adventure camps in the future.
I guess to rid people of the requirement of getting points in a specific dungeon to get these items, since they're available at all merchants. Why they would do it with plate is beyond me. Takish is usually fairly populated on my server (E'ci), since that where the Clerics want to go. If anything, they need to add leather to all merchants since everyone's scared of going to Guk. I've never been able to set foot in Guk, and I rank in the top 3000 there, whereas with 10 wins in Mistmoore I still sit in about 8000th place and 5 wins in Takish I'm around 5000th.