Blizzard not allowing Season 1 items to be upgraded in Season 2

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To clarify how things worked in DF:
You could always catalyze prior-season gear. Like, if you obtained a piece of gear in S2, you could catalyze it in S3 without it using a Catalyst charge.

HOWEVER
You could not upgrade prior season gear because when the season shifted, all of the crests required to perform the upgrades were made impossible to acquire and were deleted.

What that meant was that you couldn’t get Mythic mog from Heroic after the season ended, you’d have to do it on Mythic, but considering gear vastly trivialized a lot of things, transmog mythic runs were doable in heroic raid gear of the following season rather easily.

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You could catalyze gear. You couldn’t upgrade the item level.

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This is what has always happened.

Do the content when it’s relevant and get the reward. If not, you lose out.

Nothing else to see or say. You are not being slighted or punished.

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i agree it would be nice if season 1 stones dropped still so you can still upgrade gear for cosmetics as mythic is not going to be feasible for normal players for awhile and that’s the only way to get the appearances.

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You’re not remembering correctly, as someone said earlier all gear is upgrade locked beyond that patch. The storm gear used the storm currency and allowed items to be converted after the patch and still can be. I got lfr/n/heroic mogs on almost every alt of mine for all seasons.

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Blizzard gives free upgrades to all old season loot from the tier making machine.

Like they did with all df content from s1s2s3s4…

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I’m pretty sure this is how it’s worked since we’ve swapped over to this gear system back in DF.

You can still catalyze pieces, likely for free, but items from the previous season become unupgradable.

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why would you waste resources upgrading previous season items?
There are catch up mechanics and gear to get into the new seasons.

So why?

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Don’t think he realizes he can use the analyzer to get tier mogs

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The only rewards that go away with each season are rated pvp ones.

All tier sets from all difficulties can still be obtained by running the relevant content and grabbing gear and using the analyzer to turn it into tier pieces that will give you the mog.

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I’d just be happy to be able to get them at all.

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Say the guy suffering from the mandela effect

You could use catalyst to convert old pieces but not upgrade them.

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You could, but only the Forbidden Reach gear from DF S1. Dunno if this guy thinks that was everything, but crests and their upgrade tracks were removed with each subsequent season just like is happening in 11.1

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What game have you been playing? Are you new? Because this is NOT new and its how its always worked

Probably so

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this always changes with the season/major patches.

the ilevel of all of the categories will rise and whatever your ilevel is now will probably go up by 10-30 levels during the next season, regardless of the content you run.

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blah blah i don’t actually play the game upset can’t have random thing though

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Upgrades wouldn’t matter as much if they uncapped catalyst every .7 patch.

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S1 of dragonflight didn’t have the stone/crest upgrade system.

You’re mixing up old systems

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Yes you could I did it I did not play s2 but have multiple sets of upgraded gear.
The Dream quests in DF was S2 and the time even was S2 both were purchasable from vendors and upgrade able for the RF and Normal tier sets.
In S3 this remained the case. You could go farm a S2 set upgrade it and make it tier (i believe upgraded to 424 or 416)

In S4 they made the vendor gear NON catalyzable and NON upgradeable.
I gained almost every S2 tier set minus a few because I did not know they were going to ruin DF open world content.
I still have 1 missing slot on paladin feet because I was in the middle of gathering valor stones to upgrade it when the server swapped to season 4.

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You could use the revival catalyst to turn it into a tier set appearance, yes.

You could NOT go to the upgrade npc and increase its item level, unlocking the next tier appearance.

Sorry bud, you’re remembering incorrectly.