- The Residuum vendor will offer item level 385, 400, and 415 pieces for sale in Season 2.
- A random item-level 385 token costs 165 (as it does today)
- A random 400 costs 675
- A random 415 costs 1725
- A specific item-level 415 armor piece costs 7150
- Just as Residuum costs roughly triple with each 15-ilvl tier, so will rewards:
- Disenchanting an item level 400 Azerite piece yields 115 Residuum
- Disenchanting an item level 415 Azerite piece yields 365 Residuum
- A weekly cache for a Mythic 4 in Season 2 awards roughly the same 60 Residuum that a Mythic 10 did in Season 1; a Mythic 10 in Season 2 will award ~625 Residuum
1725 vs 7150
So the specific piece costs over 4x as much as a random and none of the devs thought this was a poor ratio?
might as well just keep playing blizzard world of gamblingcraft
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The Residuum vendor isn’t a slot machine. It is bad luck protection. Especially the specific top level items. If you want this, you’ll have lots of Azerite Armor to scrap for the currency.
Good luck.
p.s. World Quest item level is increasing as well.
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No ones forcing you to hoard 7k residuum and buy a specific one, you can get lucky and get the piece you wanted in a random piece. It’s up to you really.
Either you do 10s for 10 weeks and buy a specific 415 piece or you buy a random one every 3 weeks and hope RNG is on your side.
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Disagree. That would only make sense if the chest still dropped mythic azerite.
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With this number, you can get a random 415 after 3 weeks of 10s versus possibly not getting any for weeks previously. I’m not sure what you are complaining about?
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Uhm…so the devs put in bad luck protection and/or achievable but meaningful choice due to effort and you complain?
4x the cost to be able to pick and choose from the large pool of items rather than ‘casting your lot’ and accepting what fate wants to give you is not bad at all.
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I’d likely never pick the specific piece what with how having the second ring means you get a better chance of having one of the rings have a decent trait in it.
I could see myself taking a random for each slot if I did not get a drop for it first. Then saving up for whatever is BIS.
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You sound as though you think getting lucky is an option people can choose, rather than a result of preset probabilities that are working against players who choose that.
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Dude, it gives you currency to buy the Azerite you want, rather than occasionally rando you a piece from the “slot machine.”
You can do invasions for Azerite gear. World quests for Azerite gear. Every boss in the raid drops Azerite gear. Etc…
If you only did one M10 a week and did absolutely nothing else in the game, it would take you 12 weeks to purchase your BiS item.
Play the game and you’re looking at maybe half that. 6ish weeks for a specific BiS item you can buy isn’t really that bad.
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there are 6 in each slot, in other words you have approximately a 1 in 6 chance to get the perfect one, and hopefully you have 3-4 others that are not bad. But I do agree ill take 4 chances at random azerite pieces over 1 perfect piece everytime
How is that bad luck protection if M+ doesn’t drop azerite gear at all? Not from end of dungeon chest, not from weekly chest, not from anything else…
No, it’s being lowered by 15 ilvl’s. See Stop Punishing Players Who Have Dual Roles - #709 by Bugfound-warsong
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That’s great, that’s not bad luck protection. That’s giving you currency to gamble off.
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You can literally buy a specific piece with said currency…
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And it’s far more efficient to gamble until you have 415s in each slot.
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Luck is not an option. Complaining about it is.
That’s on you to decide. That’s not the game gambling for you, that’s you choosing to gamble your savings rather than save up and make the specific purchase you want.
Sure. Doesn’t change the fact it’s a gamble. Buying three random 415s for the price of one specific 415 is just smarter.
Bad luck protection implies that it’s a measure that exists to limit bad luck streaks, that’s not really applicable to the currency system since the chest no longer drops azerite.
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You seem to feel it is an option to choose to get lucky, which is what you actually said, that someone could choose to get lucky.
You have actually stated the choices as
- Hoard residuum to buy the piece you need.
- Buy a random piece and get lucky.
That’s what’s not an option. Buying random crap and discarding most of it is always an option, but often a bad one, considering someone can end up with multiple pieces of garbage that end up costing far more than the piece you needed.
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