Obviously we’re just guessing at this point but I see two possibilities for the inspiration catalyst in season 2.
Most likely, it will somehow become dormant for a month or two to avoid giving “free tier,” to raiders during the RWF.
But maybe, just maybe Blizz takes some feedback and it will be available from the start? This would be good for casuals who want tier of course as they’d still have to do dungeons or PvP to get base pieces. It would also help RWF guilds as they wouldn’t have to sit a good player just because they get unlucky.
Third option, in the middle, would be to have it inactive for the first week and the turn it on after first reset. This still encourages all those delightful splits for RWF guilds but anyone who doesn’t care about that can get a piece or two from normal raiding and fill out the rest in catalyst for progression.
What is your best guess and what would you prefer?
I definitely lean that way too, but what if for one patch/season they made it a more integral part of gearing? If it is actually a bad design it can be reverted in season 3, if not then they can keep it going forward if they want
There is no actual “harm”. It just doesnt fit with Blizz’s gearing timelines so they will never do it.
My guess would be that if the catalyst was live from week 1, tier gear would not drop from content and you would only be able to convert an item every 2 weeks…which is pretty much exactly what they did with crafted gear
That said, I’m pretty much vibing ATM. I kicked COVID which had kept me down for roughly the past three weeks; I finally feel like my old self and the contrast to how I felt vs how I felt now has me just totally enjoying life, so something like a time-gate on a video game mechanic is not really hurting my feelings.
they said something about 23rd so im expecting it for the closest tuesday at least.
anything else ill be unimpressed
im wondering if itll work on gear that got aquired pre-catalyst. i havnt been saving my pieces for it i traded em to m+ers in need. hope i didnt shoot myself in the foot lol
heh i didnt even know covid was still a thing. havnt heard about it in a while.
Same, especially since it isn’t an official event. It’s like they’re half in on it.
The other concern is probably if it was available right away we would spam M2, create a full tier set and quit the game… but if that happens you have other problems with your gsme.
This week for me really shows the flaws in the system.
I have 3 411 ilvl items to choose from or 3 normal raid (389 ilvl.) I will have to do the raid first on LFR, normal and try to get through as much of heroic as possible before picking my vault item as tier takes priority over ilvl and there is a possibility for it to drop and waste my weekly vault upgrade if I choose it there right away.
That kind of sucks. To be honest I hope I don’t get tier in the vault as it would make it an easier choice.
Probably because the community or metrics “pulsecheckers” think its bad that content is finished too quickly.
So then first version’s of content consumption rates are designed to be just around or above perfect play (think manapearls, stygia for sockets, AP, ideal essences at rank 3 taking as long to get as RWF or requiring rated pvp for PvErs).
They will hold it back until nobody actually cares when it releases like always. (or quit the tier)
Releasing it sooner would make sense and blizz dont do that
Yes those teams have 4 piece but that requires 156 split runs. Max has stated that they wouldn’t need to do splits (or so many) if it wasn’t for tier. Meaning they would get into mythic raiding faster and be done possibly first reset which Blizz absolutely does not want. It would make their raid look like a joke, ie Emerald nightmare.
Considering they were in mythic day 2 with their 4p and the raid still lasted a week and a half, I don’t see how this would be the case at all. GL helped them get tier easier than PL.
And, the key aspect here, is the RWF is a PvP event. It’s not about beating the raid, it’s about beating everyone else in the world by killing it first.
They could do 0 splits, raid 2-3 days a week for 3 hours a day, and clear the raid no problem at all.
The insane stuff is…because they are racing other players.
