Nobody asked for the Legion RNG pinata system to return 
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you are doing mythic plus 20s you don’t need sparks.
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I didn’t know 20s dropped 418 gear
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but then u can aget heroic geared on alt for very cheap with just gold… lame and kinda p2w like what uhave all 402 because you did +2s and had 100k???
I agree. Crafting is tied to the bottle essence, without essences crafting is dead. Supply up demand down. Crafting isn’t just about 1 spec, especially for classes who multi-spec and builds vary.
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it’s just that sparks are legitimately the only thing keeping everyone from being raid geared in less than a week… and they want to keep subscribers
You can guarantee one every other week, in addition to the RNG drops
12 tokens of merit from the vault buys a spark.
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OP doesn’t have any spark gear and he got 5 guaranteed.
I have gotten one each week. One dropped in m+ the other was from a world quest I think, world/group quest.
Why would we give up a 2 vault rewards for 1 crafted item… unless they were absolutely abysmal. This isn’t a solution.
Crafted gear is similar to entry gear. At this point in the season it should be okay to push chars up to entering heroic raid.
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OP is also wearing quite a few pvp pieces and probably logged off in his pvp set. Even if he doesn’t have any crafted gear equipped it doesn’t change my opinion that the bottles should drop more. They only make 392 ilvl gear anyway. Anything higher you have to put additional effort into as it is.
I think I’m sitting on 3 or 4 more concentrated primal infusions without a spark to make more crafted items. I could use at least 3 sparks right now to make upgrades.
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This is such an awful system, just like legion legendaries. I don’t get why they would do this when legion legendaries were universally loathed (in an otherwise extremely popular expansion). Completely baffles me that they think this is a good idea
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They made the primal chaos basically unlimited to gear up alts from mythic plus - sparks is the only thing that is restricting people now and it is a good thing.
OP is doing enough high end content that they don’t need to have a full set of 418 gear - he has plenty of mythic raid and mythic plus gear to do the content. Crafted gear was never meant to replace gear from that content only supplement it and 5 sparks were plenty to do that.
You are a lucky one. I’ve killed 30+ raid bosses, 30+ M+ , 30-40+ rates, World quests, weekly’s and no drop for last two weeks.
This quest line and catalyst weresalso the first quest I did when logging in 2 weeks ago.
Who said it’s for his main? Maybe he wants to try something different. Just because you believe someone doesn’t need something doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to earn something.
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they can earn it just like everyone else - RNG.
And the legendaries in legion aren’t comparable to optional pieces of crafted gear so RNG is totally fine.
Which is the point of this thread, that the legion rng is garbage.
I never will understand why others argue for garbage systems like it’s okay. The system sucks. There are other ways to limit crafted gear without killing the crafting system or a players ability to tinker with different crafted items.
Class act troll, that you are.
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I agree that Legion RNG is not a great system to get Sparks, but I think some people went into this expecting that they could farm a half dozen new Sparks in a weekend and get a whole new set of gear. That sounds to me like a bit too quick of a way to gear up.
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That really sucks! I’m not a fan of the rng essence drop chance, even tho I am apparently one of the lucky ones with 2. They could just change it to weekly. I’m sort of surprised they didn’t do that.
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But crafted gear is BiS for almost every class. Hardly “entry gear”.
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