You’re thinking about it too simply. A player who has been around forever sees the item that converts into a piece with the tool tips for 0/5 set if it’s the right slot, and realizes it leads to a tier set bonus.
A player who has not been around forever likely hears that the purpose of Creation Catalyst is to create tier items as players talk about it in the weeks preceeding its release and assumes that armor goes in, tier comes out. This is a design and information issue. The game is failing to inform players in this regard by being unintuitive.
We have to remember that not every player in the game has been around for a long time and has gained the knowledge of how the game works. You can take a gamer of any genre and stick them into an MMO in the first time, they are like lost puppys
It informs it, it literally shows the item in the box. How much more do you need to show?!?!?!?!? If a player knows about tier in any fashion, they know that it hasn’t been on a belt since BC. And if they don’t know about tier, why assume the bonus can be on the belt to begin with?! At some point, when do you stop the hand holding?!
Again…not every player in the game has been here forever, and has probably heard the buzz of Creation Catalyst as Tier Creation, and perceived in their mind that this is the ONLY thing that the Catalyst does. It is NOT a player failure that Blizzard didn’t include adequate information in the game to tell a player how this works. My viewpoint is always going to be that you shouldn’t have to go outside the game to learn how something works.
Because Blizzard didn’t inform OP of how this works in the game that they play for FUN, the OP is now instead left feeling bad and a bunch of people mocking thrm for “ineptitude”.
Don’t think of this so simply, it makes you judge others and be unkind. I know it seems like something that’s very simple, but not everyone has the same knowledge or experience as the veteran playerbase.
It’s truly astounding how many people have done this. Like, even if you lack the reading comprehension or will to actually read the tooltip, how TF do people not know which slots are tier pieces by now?
I swear you could lead the WoW playerbase to water, and instead of drinking it they’d turn around and poop in it… then drink it and die.
If all of these threads were being made in the CS/Bug report forums I would buy them but since the majority are being made in GD ,I’m guessing those people have already been here before and know what this place is like and have actually read the blue post on the subject and are using this as their latest troll topic.
A lot of people actually predicted this because of how poorly the communication about the system and pieces was written. Combine that with a naming convention directly tied to the real tier pieces and the fact that we just came from domination sockets - and it’s easy to see how people would make this mistake.
No it’s not Tier refers to the entire armor set .
Only Vanilla has had it on all items in the set . Since TBC it has only been on Head, Shoulders , chest , legs and hands .
The Catalyst gives a preview window that players can mouse over to the changed item and see what changes it gets .
Not only that it gives a “Are you sure” pop up with a 6 second timer before you can press accept .
Do you not check your vault gear before you select it to make sure it is right? THis is no different.
