An average of 16 hours to get one piece of gear that we already had is pretty disrespectful to our time

In DoS there are 10 pieces that could drop for me. And a timed key award 2 pieces for 5 people. That gives me about a 4% chance to loot the specific piece i want per run.

(2/5)*(1/10)*100

So on average the piece I want should be awarded after 25 runs.

If every run is 40 minutes, then I have to spend on average 16.6 hours running DoS, and that is just actually doing the dungeon, not forming the group and etc,etc

On my 27th run of DoS since the xpac dropped, a week before 9.0.5, i looted my first ever Blood splattered scale of any ilvl

Now i am faced with the same thing all over again, with the potential to be much more unlucky.

Why can’t we upgrade gear from before the patch ? just because they didn’t want degenerate use of the item restore service ??

They are seriously disrespecting my time.

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Then don’t do it.

You’ll have to do it in 3ish months again anyway.

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You ran De Other Side 27 times trying to find a video game item

I have some bad news as to the market value of your time

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I don’t understand the appeal of grinding mythics to grind more mythics to upgrade the item you got in a mythic either. But hey, that’s me.

It just ends up feeling mandatory

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WOW white knight: “Well then dont do that”

Also WOW white knight: “Do the work and dont complain”

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feel for you. The games just not fun no matter how I’ve tried to like SL. Honestly pet battles are looking more enjoyable at this point. They really messed this game up with the level squish and expansion all at once.
Botched the game real bad, but on the positive side, the pugs are getting better because the casuals are dropping like flies.

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200 IQ cutting edge researchers of our time.

This game used to handle it well. But nowadays it feels too much to grind out anymore. I know i’ve dropped from raiding & mythic+ completely.

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It’s always a mistake to ‘do the math’ in this game as you break your own immersion when you realize just how crazy it is to play a game with time requirements like this one.

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Maybe you just grew out of the game? Usually as you get older you have more demands on your time, and a person becomes more selective with how they wish to spend it. Stuff that was once fun begins to feel like a waste of valuable time.

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You don’t have to do it. If you only need a few specific pieces do the smart thing and do mythic0. Especially in a class stacked group you have a much higher chance of getting the piece that you want.

Then you can just upgrade it from there. Sure it will cost a bit more, but for those big ticket items like trinkets and weapons it honestly is probably worth the effort.

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sir this isnt the DMV. if you don’t like the gearing path, gear a different way.

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I feel like a lot of wow players would lose their mind going from LR, To HR, then to MR, in monster hunter.

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That’s helpful advice. It’s also based in reality. But I think I still try to enjoy the game, I just find it unable to be happy when proceeding through the avenues that I used to. They’ve been stretched out in length for the same if not diminished reward.

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Welcome to modern WoW. Designed to put a damper on progression/completion by people who have no jobs, thus negatively impacting everyone else already behind them on the treadmill.

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Blood-Splattered Scale is insanely good, which is almost certainly what OP is talking about. This isn’t a “If you don’t like the Maw, don’t go there” situation because there’s a big gap. Top Druid in the world was using a 210 Blood-Splattered Scale instead of a 226 or 233 Trinket because it’s just that good for M+.

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What I meant was people are making a mountain out of a molehill, there’s no point to fret refarming things if you already have them right now because you’re going to be doing it in 3 months again anyway with new fresh ilvl.

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Jokes on you, my time is worthless

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You cant use napkin math in a game that doesnt use badluck protection.

One player could run it 15 times and see 15 loot. Another could run it 15 times and see nothing.

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I ran HoA 7 times to get Sin Stained Pendant. However, I am okay with that because I needed the Valor Points in order to upgrade it from 210 to 220. Works out.

You ran the same dungeon for one item?

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