Crests requiring higher M+ Dungeons?

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Really Blizz?

You do realize that this is a huge mistake?

  • Weathered (Whelpling) Harbinger Crest** - Now obtained from Heroic difficulty dungeons, in addition to LFR Nerub-ar Palace and many outdoor activities.

  • Carved (Drake) Harbinger Crest** - Now obtained from M0 dungeons, in addition to Normal Nerub-ar Palace and some outdoor activities.

  • Runed (Wyrm) Harbinger Crest** - Now obtained from +4 to +8 keystones (was +2 to +5) and Heroic Nerub-ar Palace.

  • Gilded (Aspect) Harbinger Crest** - Now obtained from +9 or higher keystones (was higher than +6) and Mythic Nerub-ar Palace.

What you have in place now for Dragonflight S4 works and gets more people involved. This will only be a pain in your rear if you go live with this.

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If crests drop at +9, I hope this means Myth track doesn’t start til +9 as well.

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This is a seriously massive L. Farming crests on alts is already a pain. This change doesn’t really affect upper tier players, but screws mid range and more casual players hard.

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My guess is it starts at 10’s minimum.

Why would this have less people involved? My personal feelings is I’m tired of people treating M+ like a loot piñata and only that. It’s its own endgame. It doesn’t need loot to prop it up. If anything it could use less loot and more long term rewards like PvP elite sets.

+9 is still probably lower than it should be for aspect crests when mythic raid is what players have to enter for them.

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Making the M+ more closely aligned in raid difficulty in terms of rewards is good.

Making farming crests more annoying for raiding is bad.

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Also sounds like they’re just shuffling keystone levels again. According to this list, +2 through +4 don’t drop any crests? Or maybe they don’t even exist anymore, and it goes from M0 to +4 lol.

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I believe the common Blizzard mantra is “if it ain’t broke, fiddle with it until it is”.

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it’s used in tandem with another development mantra, “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”

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haha When I first saw the title line, my thought was “There goes blizzard, fixing what ain’t broke until it is.” lol

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Stop farming crests to upgrade gear when you can just farm the next track of gear, invalidating all that farming you did

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What track of gear can we farm to invalidate needing aspect crests for mythic track gear? I’m talking about farming aspect crests on alts to upgrade mythic gear.

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You’ll acquire all the necessary crests simply by trying to obtain the mythic track gear anyway.

Happening naturally != farming

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thank goodness. Personally I would make them +10 and higher. You want your mythic level aspects? Gotta deal with all three affixes.

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Honest question: Do you enjoy doing harder content for no gear?

It’s not bad to extend the reward track.

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I mean, that’s fine. The highest tier crests coming from such low keys was silly.

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That’s not even close to true. Farming crests to ugprade gear is something almost everyone has to do in this game.

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I guess 6/7 will just be the dead key levels instead of 9 in TWW. Make sure to 3 chest those 5s

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No not really. Theres technically no reason to farm/spend crests until you get mythic track gear as everything prior will be replaced.

Do people do it? Of course.
Do they need to? Absolutely not

If you spend your time farming 6s for no benefit other than crests, you’re wasting time when you could be farming 8-10s for the next track up in gear, which will use those crests as well.

Work smarter. Not harder

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Makes sense to me. Doing 10’s this season only gives you portal with a huge cd and maybe saves you 15 crests in your vault which isn’t relevant nearly at all since aspects go up each week. Good extension, it will take people a tiny bit longer to progress their character and that’s ok.

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Once you have the gear to upgrade it’s more efficient to farm 6’s instead of 8’s or 9’s. That would be working smarter.

On my main this doesn’t change much for me, but I’m not going to try to drag 4 or 5 alts through 9’s every week. If Blizz’s goal is to make me play fewer alts they’ll succeed by pushing aspect crests to 9’s.

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