I made an alt today, and my god the gearing is rough. My weapon is still 250 at 80. It’s crazy how little the sand drops for that alt.
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If getting a sand upon hitting 80 made the weapon 584 or whatever the max regular box item is at 80, it would be way better than now where my alt had a 200 something weapon upon hitting 80 (and half the gear in the mid 400s).
Exactly… nobody really understands. It’s the same users gaslighting others with passive aggressive garbage.
I created another character thinking that my warlock was some sort of anomaly to not get weapon tokens and I was so wrong… this poor DH has ilvl 580+ gear with a ilvl 310 weapon 
Absolute insanity the weapon tokens barely drop
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I didn’t have the issue on my main, but he did all the quests. My alt mostly did dungeons and raids. Every other piece of gear is in the 584, but the weapon just drags it down.
Yep just hit 80, got straight to 580 gear.
300 ilvl weapon.
You would think from the massive EXP bonuses Blizz wanted this to be alt friendly but the fact your weapon ilvl just takes forever to increase says the opposite. If we could at least burn bronze to upgrade it then the alts could do it that way for catchup but nope.
No actual catchup post 80 outside of bonus IP gains which can be broken for your character. And doesn’t change the fact your getting small verse gains if you even get into higher tier raids.
I’m surprised the vers trait doesn’t carry over. But my second is getting power much faster than my first did (at equal level), on top of leveling much faster, maybe too fast, cause the gear isn’t catching up.
Yeah doing quests nets you a lot more boxes for time spent, boxes mean more items, means more chances of getting sand, means more recycling for more sand, etc etc.
It’s just not worth playing an alt at this point other than leveling (and that assumes using group content to get carried when an alt’s power is so far behind in the 60s and 70s).
Maybe they will fix the issue with artifacts / gear being so behind on alts, and if we are lucky, add some benefit to power / gearing for alts.
But right now alts don’t gain anything in the way of catch-up for gear or power and just get further and further behind as they approach and hit 80.
Oh and I love that my alt’s dailies are all crap like run a specific mythic dungeon, heroic raid, heroic world when they have terrible way behind gear that would suit a level 50 character while my main gets stuff like complete a normal dungeon.
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Not that much, only the xp bonus, other stats were worthless.
I tried this, but I keep getting randomly kicked out of the LFG before the dungeon even starts and get this great wait 30 minutes before trying again buff.
he isn’t just saying hitting 80 he means a geared player well above 700 making an alt feels like a slog starting from the base of epic gear all over again spending days of raid lockouts or tons of time spamming m+ for items to create gear is basically a slog unless you like that kind of starting over feeling especially the infinite power grind im at 23/36 infinite knowledge and the increase in gains is not big enough to warrant the time you would spend on multiple alts just making the weapon power be cross character would fix much of this issue people have with how alts feel a lot of us also have 150-200% increased xp already thats why our alts are hitting cap so under geared
this, I have a decent main, but the idea of doing the infinite power grind with gear again sounds awful
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Alt play in legion was easily the worst in any expansion the fact they didnt fix anything and also made it worse from MOP remix makes me not want to play alts.
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