Band of the Eternal Champion question (BC content)

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So I finally completed this old task, took my Band and earned exalted with Scales of the Sands doing the Mt. Hyjal raid, and upgraded the ring.

My question is the Ring I received isn’t the same level depicted on WoWhead. My ring is lvl 33 (I guess that’s orignal lvl?), and WoWhead has it at lvl 152 with a little note that says phase 3, and there are comments about it “getting better”.

The ring won’t be of much practical use, I already have lvl 247 rings.

I was just wondering how these types of legacy gear get “better”? Is it a matter of wearing the ring all the time, wearing the ring in more Mt. Hyjal raids, etc.?

Is this an overall thing with legacy gear? I think I’ve seen this before. In fact, I picked up a rare blade " Anzu’s Scything Talon" in WoD that in game is a level 247, yet WoWhead shows it as lvl 43.

Sorry if these things should be obvious, but I’m not really up to speed on how they’ve leveled legacy gear. How the ring gets upgraded, and how the drop on that rare is way higher that it originally was in WoD.

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this is the ilvl that these items used to be before the level squish.

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Scaling for pre-Shadowlands gear content is pretty weird, since they performed an item level squish as we left Battle for Azeroth.

Your ring is in a weird place because it was squished down to item level 33 which is about right for level 30 content, but most stuff in BC dungeons and raids was re-inflated to about i140-i160 - obviously your ring was missed in the great shrinkage/expansion cycle. Your WoD dagger is likely also weird due to Chromie time, and gear needing to level with levelling characterss all the way up to level 70.

tl;dr, your ring is weird but unlikely to get much better. back in bc, you could upgrade it a few item levels with each level of reputation, but you say you’re exalted so that’s as good as it’s going to get i’m afraid.

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Thanks all. I’m going to dump that ring in storage. I agree some weird stuff going on, especially finding that higher level blade in a WoD drop. When I say higher level, I mean as I’m just 57 (before I quit last time I started a bit of Legion, then started back deciding to do a “completionist” type of thing on all the old content, so never really moved into Legion).

So when I came back a month ago, they had reset me at Level 50 with a new set of relevant gear for that. And the WoD blade that dropped is actually an improvement over the blade I had on that reset. Getting a blade from WoD that outspecced the 247 gear they gave me is just…odd.

Also, I did try the “Chromie time” as I’m runnng the old content cleaning things up, but since my intent on the old content is just to gather mogs and achievements, I didn’t see much point in making things harder / replaying the content on lower level. I’m just running dungeons and raids smashing everything as fast as possible.

I did “freeze” my character at level 57 as I don’t want to keep leveling, becuase then when I start in on the Legion content I want to level up correctly there, no go in there smashing everything right off the bat also.

I may use Chromie time on some new alts, have a lvl 17 mage, but to be honest I’m taking that character through in chronological order or content anyway, so no need.

If I create a new alt and decide to use that alt starting on current content, I may use chromie time. But I’m just going to take that mage and make him progress in order of the expac releases, so I can relive all that content again in order (I started on original WoW release, and actually bought everything on CD. For Legion, I think I donwloaded that, but did buy a “Legion Collectors Edition” that is still setting on my shelf in the plastic wrap. Those are worth about $300 now. :slight_smile:

As a side note on that, I wish when I was a kid I had the foresight to buy a bunch of things, especially toys and gaming things, and keep them in original packaging and stored them. Can be a lot of money made for that stuff I threw away.

Thanks again!

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