A Peek into my Great Vault - And Why It FeelsBadMan(TM)

https://imgur.com/fXFsFYC

  • The chest is a 13 ilvl upgrade, but the lowest ilvl offered. Also has haste, a bad stat.
  • The weapon offered is an EXACT 100% duplicate of the weapon I am currently wearing, that I got last week. THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.
  • The hood is what i am already wearing, but an ilvl upgrade, and bad stats for brewmaster (haste/mastery)
  • The ring is crit / haste with no socket

Blizzard, the great vault feels AWFUL. It is not rewarding. It is horrible to see duplicates. It it horrible that we can’t target our worst piece (my trinket) for an upgrade.

it’s not working.

If you haven’t chosen yet, post a screenshot of your great vault here. I’d love to see the garbage that happens.

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Oof. That’s some bad RNG

I feel they do this on purpose to get people to stay subbed. #feelsbadman

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So, you feel like they should give a guaranteed upgrade each week?

Not an attack, genuinely Interested in what your “Feels GREAT” loot expectation is.

And I can’t post a screen shot, but I got 2 weapons (both ilvl downgrades), pants (same as I was wearing), Cloak (ilvl upgrade, but bad stats), and a trinket (ilvl upgrade and 1% DPS increase)

I took the trinket

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I truly believe this.

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Not necessarily a guaranteed upgrade, but if I am going to random-roll a piece of loot, I would liek to be able to target the slot it is for. I have a 194 trinket that has excellent stats but is too low now.

I would like to “target” that slot to random roll a great vault piece. The great vault might give me a horrible trinket like the overcharged anima battery, but at least I have a better chance than RNG + RNG = duplicates of what I already have.

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Absolutely. You’re time gated for a week with it, you did the content to fulfill the requirements for a piece of gear of that ilvl. Why shouldn’t it take into account the gear you’re wearing and offer a guaranteed upgrade?

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Don’t worry, next expansion’s Greater Vault will get these things right…

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The obvious answer is that your system would reward you for putting in the minimum amount of effort.

Do 1 +14, get a 100% mythic ilvl gear upgrade in your box. No reason to do other content.

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Ouch.

I’m not sure if the vault should always guarantee an upgrade, but I do think we should have the power to influence it, kind of like we already do with the choice system.

They just need to go one step further (yes, I know, another system!!11) and make it so we can trade… I dunno, anima, or stygia, or soul ash, or SOMETHING to target a slot and increase the % chance of an item for that slot. Even if the cost was like a choice between currencies, that would still drive up /timeplayed BUT it would bring us closer to a guaranteed reward. This way the hard work would lead to more success.

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At the very least, LEAST we should not be getting exact duplicates of items we are already wearing. that is a burned slot. That is nothing.

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Now you’re just showing off.

Cries in BoE shield

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You’re item level 210.

  • First mistake is not clearing H CN. If your guild can’t do it, there are plenty of pugs that can at this point. Opens up 2 more slots up to 220 item level gear.
  • Second mistake is only doing +10s. You should be trying to do +14s at this point to secure 226s in those slots.

What you’re doing is easy content and complaining that you aren’t getting top tier rewards. Push harder content, get better rewards.

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Did you even look at my screenshot?

I got a duplicate item
bad stat allocations
Even if I filled out all 3 of my heroic nathria slots, they still only offer 213, which is lower than M+ which is the content I enjoy doing

Also, I am guildless??
Like, get lost, dude. Nothing you said is relevant.

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Surprise! Your 1 vault choice is the same slot as your legendary!

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Honestly your best bet is to PVP, rated even better. You can get crit/vers in all your main armor slots.

I already mentioned this in my screenshot.

I AM A TANK.

I would have to switch to windwalker and become competent enough at a spec I don’t play in content I don’t enjoy with an entirely new set of gear to collect gear for the content I DO enjoy which is PvE.

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I was tempted to screen cap my options today, i was already wearing everything it offered me lol

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Means to an end. Betting solely on the GV to gear how you want is a lost battle. But good luck, I guess.

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The great vault is designed to reward the content you do.
Why are you telling me to switch to a spec I don’t play to do content I don’t enjoy?

The point of my post isn’t to try and solve my own personal gearing problems. It’s to showcase how the great vault is a bad system.

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