Topic says it. This sucks. 3 days in a row with 375 azerite armor cache that rewards a 4 ring azerite piece when i can do an emissary, weekly, mythic 0 and get a 5 ring azerite piece AT THE SAME ITEM LEVEL. Waste of time until fixed.
Edit: you can still instant scrap/DE for residuum. Yay how fun.
as far as i can figure it, the assaults are being capped by the first week of arena because the assault rewards are also ‘pvp’ rewards
I asked a GM about this two days ago and the response I received was that this is working as intended.
"I understand you were concerned about your 370 gear from the Faction assualt quest not having a 5th ring.
I did some digging into this to see what was going on here. In this case, the Faction assault quests don’t actually count as Emissaries and basically still normal world quests. The same way Invasion were different back in Legion. Any 370 or higher Azerite gear from the Battle of Dazar’alor raid, Emissary quests, Season 2 dungeons, or Season 2 PvP will have that 5th outer ring with additional traits." --Game Master Mhaedarnoe
I agree with the OP though, if this is intended then the 8.1 Faction Assaults are obsolete in 8.1.
they turned off azerite caches all togeather for assaults. So you only get titian forge bait from assaults now.
I mean I guess this fixes the issue with getting 4 ring ilvl 370 azerite but it should never been an issue to begin with. should have been that 340 gear gives 4th ring, and 370 gear gives 5th
Long story short, they are just lazy in applying a 5th ring to honorbound azerite pieces.
I wonder if this means we will not even get azerite gear from honorbound emissary chests and warfront.
Its a shame since honorbound chests have traits that are still good for certain classes and with no updates means its gutted to the ground.