Only think about the cartel chips when looking at topics about them. For my game play, they will have no impact.
exactly - just use your sparks to make 675 crafted weapon (better than a 665 Best IN Slots weapon).
and all of the 665 delve trinkets are actually more dmg than the raid trinkets like eye of Kazan and house of cards when they are at the same ilvl
Itâs too late now, but somebody at Blizz should have realized how poorly it would be received and scrapped the idea altogether before it was announced.
Why does it bother you badly that Iâm happy to get stuff (for stats OR transmog)?
First thing I did was craft me a staff lol⊠No regrets.
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I wouldnât put it past them to try to wait out the playerbase with this underhanded boosting monetization.
They sent out their social media team to post about the trading post today on reddit, and are not engaging further on the cartel chip topic.
They clearly ran the numbers and took the risk in usual realpolitik blizzard fashion.
Iâm just explaining to you how they are not useful.
you said you wanted to increase your ilvl and damage - seen by this quote above:
and I explain that crafted gear with sparks at 675 is better than any hero track itemâŠ
you canât craft trinkets, but you already have a Suspicious Energy Drink trinket which is OP and will do more dmg than any other trinket at the same ilvl.
and you can get Funhouse Lens or Mechano-Core Amplifier as your second trinket (both of which do more dmg than house of cards and Eye of Kezan at the same ilvl).
so unless you can get these raid items at myth track, they do not increase your ilvl or your dmg in any way.
glad we cleared that up 
Why, because theyâre actually doing something for once that isnât focused entirely around Mythic+?
Good. About damn time.
More please.
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Hereâs the problem: you say one thing, while Raidbots says another.
Iâm going with Raidbots.
Iâm also looking forward to getting this:
Itâs looks really cool with the blue (heroic) color.
Itâs bad luck protection, not free loot to those who havenât done the content.
With crest uncapped, it only takes 4ish t11 delves to get enough runed to convert to 15 gilded. I can clear 4 t11s in far less time then it would take to find a group and run an m+7. and Iâll leave with 5 more gilded.
Thatâs a much more efficient way to upgrade those few dinar items that arenât outclassed by delve or crafted gear than wasting time in +7s.
you arenât using raid bots properly then, sorry.
in no world would a heroic eye of Kazan ever be more dmg than a delve trinket at the same ilvl.
same as house of cards.
you can get the blue (heroic) color from doing the normal raid (or just doing the time walking weekly events and get a free piece of normal raid ilvl gear from that)
you donât need the puzzling cartel chips to get this.
Do you think everyone just wanders off for a few months and the raid lead hopes they all show up again when the next season starts and are able to play at the same level?
Itâs possible I missed some sarcasm though.
the actual cap to obtain gilded crests has been removed BUT the limit of 21 per week for t11 delves will stay.
u can endlessly farm gilded crests in mythic plus, not delvesâŠ
Read more carefully and try again. I was talking about farming runed and converting to gilded, which would still be faster than farming +7s.
It was a genuine question, I donât know why you gave a aggressive response sounding like youâre annoyed.
I donât mythic raid, I assume after CE was acquired people take a break until the next tier.
They seem good as bad luck protection. 
The guild I was with during season 4 Shadowlands decided no one retained any skill, and everyone was going to flake off.
They drastically overrecruited and everyone had to âre-earnâ their spot.
And some people left due to well, lack of spots, and lack of skill.
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Usually you take a 1.5-2 reset break and drop down to a 1-2 day schedule but you need to keep playing to keep people fresh with raiding in general, as well as get everyone their mythic mounts. Typically you start doing âRaid skip to end boss then clear more if we feel like itâ but you still play on a schedule.
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The problem with that, is the people acting like spoiled children are the very people who donât get what theyâd decided they were getting.
So it is the case being mentioned above.