The annulet certainly wasn’t catch up gear.
Again, the 6 week time gate to increase the power I can get behind. Why make a 639 item be of equivalent strength to something barely 30 ilvls lower for the first few weeks though?
One exception to the rule does not change the rule
Because it’s a participation award that you get for almost free. If you want the full power you need to put in the effort for it
So it’s either a BiS item, or its catch up gear. Catch up gear implies you fell behind and will need a powercreep boost to engage with content. This ring is not that. here, once again, the statement from yesterdays blue post: “Our goal here is to make the ring a clear choice for the remainder of Season 1, as well as keeping it relevant in Season 2, where it should compete with Heroic raid gear and be replaced by drops from the Mythic raid and high M+ dungeons.” A clear choice for the REMAINDER of season 1 and competing with gear from S2 Heroic/Mythic Raid and High M+ is not “catch up gear” by any definition of the word. Thats like saying the Seal of the Poison Pact is catch up gear because it’s BiS for many if not all classes.
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Is the annulet not the only precedent we have for “Patch linked mcguffin introduced mid tier”
I guess you could throw in the BFA cloak from Nyalotha too? But that was at the start of a tier.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure if it came through over the internet.
No, it’s both. The ring as it is where you get it for minimal effort is amazing for fresh 80’s and people who haven’t been grinding the raid or M+, and it will (probably, I will admit I don’t know what gems are actually in the pipeline) be BiS when the effort can be put in to actually grind it out
You are trying to redefine a word that’s definition is already set. Why would someone decked out in full mythic raid gear at the highest ilevel achievable need “catch up gear”? What in gods name are they catching up to at this point in the season? It is not catch up gear any more than a best in slot raid item or M+ item would be. It’s a BiS ring for everyone by the Dev’s own posted stated goals for the item.
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The best implementation would have been to not implement a late-season piece of gimmick gear.
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It’s worse than stuff you get from delves right now.
In 3~ weeks, yes. Which is why having two separate timegates makes so little sense.
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Thats my favorite part of your comment. You don’t know, full stop, is where you should have stopped typing instead of continuing to babble on about things your ignorant of but I am impressed with your tenacity to show everyone just how ignorant you are anyway.
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No, I’m not
They wouldn’t? Catch-up gear is for alts and new players
Yes I agree 100%. By no means am I defending the time gate, I’m just explaining the ring’s purpose itself
It’s just really confusing to me. The rest of the gems don’t seem much better from a DPS perspective.
I don’t think 500 to all Secondaries will do much of anything. The Mastery one could be handy but it’s like the bare minimum of Mastery, and who knows just how much it amplifies the other slots. Rest are just mediocre damage procs that are worth nowhere near the amount of missing stats.
All it seems to be is a way to grossly inflate ilvls which will make higher end content, especially M+, seem more miserable than it currently is. Ilvl is usually a metric and now that metric is skewed due to people wearing a ring that may occasionally do an extra 200k damage, or may occasionally do a pseudo Chain Heal.
I’m just confused more than anything.
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It’s like a 15k DPS loss for me which is less than 0.5% of my overall dps, I’ll keep it on because it’s different and slightly more exciting but it’s definitely not as good or as fun as the other Onyx Annulet was.
Honestly arguing over such small numbers is pointless when the ring is on the trajectory to be much better. It’s probably going to end up getting giga-buffed again so it’s worth taking the 30 minutes each week to invest in it.
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And this ring is straight out in plain English called a BEST IN SLOT item for the remainder of this season and competing with other BiS items from S2 Mythic Raid and high Mythic+ thus negating any argument that its “catch up gear”.
When you can farm out the good gems for it, yes
Ignorance still fully on display. Please have the day you deserve.
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You’re from area 52. That’s my mistake for thinking you’re capable of a civil conversation
Yes because my server choice has any bearing on the fact you have zero idea or knowledge of topic you continue to make comments on.
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Swell job proving my point. I hope the rest of your day goes better than your morning has
Wait I can engage on your level. Are all players from Bloodsail Buccaneers as daft and clueless as you?