If crafted gear is truly meant to be bad luck protection then we should be able to craft it to the season’s maximum ilvl.
Being three ilvl lower isn’t true bad luck protection - it is not compensation for being unlucky in vault because you are not able to obtain the gear you should have received in your vault.
I don’t even really play the “item level” game. I do the content I want to do, mostly delves and follower dungeons, I get the gear from that content, and I’m happy. But this really seems like a bad idea… what would be the point of doing all those mythics to get mythic level gear if you could just go to the auction house, buy a bunch of materials, and have someone make it for you?
I fill my vault every week on multiple characters with mythic plus 10s to get myth track gear and receive nothing useful in the vault.
Mainly I get bad rings and bad trinkets that are dps downgrades from my current trinkets that are 665.
Crafted gear is my only option to upgrade my characters ilvl is crafted gear but it can’t go higher than 675, so I’m missing out on a significant amount of stamina, main stat and secondaries because I haven’t received any useful myth track pieces from my vault.
3ilvl… You really think at such a high ilvl 3 more is going to impact your damage that much? That’s (at best) 25 to each of those 2 secondaries. Better Gem distribution will offer bigger gains. Weapon grease is much bigger gains, flask makes those 3ilvl irrelevant. But, more important than any of those things, the correct rotation is what’s going to make your damage better. Responding to proc’s that buff the next attack then using the right next attack for example.
3ilvl isn’t going to make or break your numbers at that point, your skill and knowledge of your class is. Remember a lot of Liquid and Echo raiders were still wearing some season 1 gear when they took Mythic Gally down. More than proving skill and knowledge of your class makes better gains than ilvl
Mythic plus scales infinitely, losing out on extra stamina from those three ilvl can make or break a key if I don’t have enough hp to not be one shot by mechanics in high keys.
The mythic raid is irrelevant, I don’t mythic raid. I never will. It is not enjoyable