60 ilvl of titanforging? Seriously?

[Irisse-maelstrom]

@Rankin-shandris

@Irisse-maelstrom

Not correct. They increased the cap on emissaries from normal raiding 355 to heroic raiding 370 half way through 8.0, because forged 355s were causing ultracasuals to top out and quit playing. Then the ultracasuals started getting forged 370s, which is why they ended up better geared than the raiders in that one Heroic raiding guild someone mentioned.

Again, they did this as a stopgap fix due to complaints about azerite gear acquisition. They will not be increasing emissary rewards in 8.1.5.

We’re getting exactly the same complaints now:

Can we increase emissary rewards please?

The azerite armor cache and other item rewards are capped at 385… but it’s completely useless to me and I’m sure many players. Can this be upgraded to 400 please? Thank you!

What makes you think Blizzard will handle it differently this time around?

@Irisse-maelstrom

Cutting back on forging chances would permit them to slow down this inflation, without risking subscriber loss. That would be a good thing.

They already significantly nerfed WF/TF this expansion. They reduced the chance of it happening, and there are four slots that can’t WF/TF at all, plus weapons can only WF. It has already been nerfed quite a bit.

Source for their “significantly” nerfing forging in 8.1 relative to Legion? It looks to me like it’s at least as high and maybe higher.

@Irisse-maelstrom

About half his equipped gear is already forged mythic+; by 8.1.5, forging will probably account for 5 ilvl or more for him. That’s enough to make the difference between “on par with” and “not on par with”. And if he ran enough mythic+ to get the fair number of titanforges that I see on many profiles, it could make up for most of a raid tier’s worth of difference.

WF/TF does not increase your average item level nearly as much as you think it does.

Maybe if you never play and so have no chance to get them, they won’t. In my case, a single piece of titanforged gear pushed my overall ilvl up by several points, and I have two other pieces of titanforged gear on, plus warforges; the total increase is 6+ character ilvl and we’re less than half way through the patch. Anyone who plays spammable content more than an hour a day will see similar benefits.