I don’t post much, so take this as a customer complaint. The titan residuum system takes the worst parts of a currency system and combines them with the worst possible RNG system.
Titan residuum can only be obtained (essentially) by completing 1 single mythic dungeon a week. You can’t gain any more by running additional dungeons, like say completing 5 or 10 Mythic 10 keys in a week. And running dungeons will never get you gear that can used for additional residuum. So essentially there is a cap on the amount of currency that you can obtain, it’s just a hidden, frustrating cap.
So after farming this very hard to get resource over 3 weeks, possibly more, what does a player encounter? A terrible RNG system where you can see the piece you want, the piece you definitely don’t want, and several in between that really aren’t upgrades at all. All for the low, low cost of 3 weeks of work. For possibly nothing. And if you want to target something specific? 12 weeks? For 1 piece of gear? Absolutely ridiculous.
Azerite traits are everything. Everything. 30 item levels is not an upgrade if the traits are all wrong. This isn’t like getting crit over mastery. There are simply awful traits on gear, and if you get stuck with them, you are better off using an item with drastically lower item levels. This whole system is broken.
The way I see it, costs for this need to come down. A lot. Or there needs to be more ways to get this currency. Or both. Because right now it just does not work.
RNG based gearing is not fun when traits make or break your performance. This is nothing like the other stats. It isn’t exciting. It isn’t fun. Its frustrating. Frustrating to spend weeks building up a currency that will only buy you things you don’t want.