Yesterday i managed to finish the quest and obtained the legendary axe Fyr’alath but after seeing the Season 4 pools it made me wonder, whats going to happen with it next season?
Am i going to replace it on day one S4 with a random epic weapon thats ilvl 500+? I hate what retail turned into… seasonal ilvl chase.
Would love if there is a way to slowly upgrade it during the next season, like a token that you get once a week and it adds X amount of ilvl to it. (this also applies to the evoker legendary which is useless right now in S3)
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Rae’shalare had a token you could either buy from a vendor with a dinar or get as a drop off Fated Sylvanas. It would upgrade the bow appropriately for SL Season 4.
I’m hoping they do similar for Nasz’uro and Fyr’alath. Beyond that, nobody knows.
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That would be a great solution.
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There hasn’t been much information on season 4, other than it’s coming this spring and we can vote on what tier bonuses and appearances to use.
I would also be very interested to know what the ilvl increase will be in S4. If it’s steep enough, I’ll just stop trying for the axe and save my time/gold.
I don’t think it’ll be made irrelevant that quickly, as it takes a while to get unless you just get wicked lucky. That said, who knows eh?
Grats on the axe!
It’ll likely get an upgrade token, similar to how S4 in SL worked.
How about season 4 each final boss of the heroic raid has a chance to drop an upgrade token, which is a quest chain to revisit and grind old zones like zeralik caverns, to upgrade it. Normal and lfr have a very small chance to drop an upgrade token. Each week if you don’t get the upgrade token you get a small chance at a blp token that the next week the upgrade token increases your chance to upgrade it for season 4 ?
But it has a kiss curse effect, it has a chance to permenantly destroy the Lego when upgrading it and you will have to farm it from season3 raid only again.
The evoker legendary was made irrelevant pretty quickly
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When you get off the ilvl treadmill and discover that transmogs are the real rewards, life in WoW becomes way better.
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Problem is the axe is so bad at everything other than item level that even if it gets an ilvl boost for season 4 there’s a chance the now relevant again Ashkandur will be better.
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I had a guildie get that item… 3 weeks before the end of the season and it was already irrelevant because no one was playing at that time and weeks into S3 we were already well into replacing everything from S2.
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Unless they got lucky on one of the cantrip weapons or a 480+ weapon, the leggo is still good.
Precedent tells that there is going to be an upgrade path and almost guaranteed certainty the evoker legendary will get the same treatment too.
Wait, S4 is gonna have an ilvl bump?
Ashkandur’s effect is something like a 1- 2% damage increase but the dot and on-use of the axe is a 6-8% increase.
I’ll never get one but I feel like legendaries should feel more unique and special outside out of being a statistically low drop.
I actually got lucky(?) in this regard. Took about 2 months of doing Sark to finally get the leggo.
When Amirdrassil dropped, I actually had the WORST luck getting a new weapon. Nothing but garbage. Never even SAW a decent weapon drop until I already had AOTC. So, all the effort and money I put into crafting it didn’t end up going to waste, in the end. Had that legendary for the entire tier.
Anyways, fingers crossed that they add a upgrade token to make those two legendaries relevant again. It’d be a nice reward to the people that put the time, effort, and money into crafting them.
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While I understand your thoughts on this, I also hate how that axe made specs this season. Super cool axe, but the game had to balance everyone around it. I don’t play that much… so maybe I’m the loser here… 500k gold to build it or grind it out are both so time consuming that I’ll never get this. Assuming I’m lucky enough to get it from LFR. Basically every 2H weapon wielded is nerfed because this weapon exists.
I don’t agree that the game should be built around casual players, but I do think that the game shouldn’t make a casual player not allowed to play specific classes because they can’t get an item.
There probably isn’t anything anyone can do for casuals like myself being able to do the M+ content they want. We have to play tanks or healers to do any M+ content because we have maybe an hour or so here and there to play. I even tried demo warlock and spent multiple days doing nothing but doing world quest and trying to get an M+ group together.
For now, I’ll work on a new character and hope that I get lucky with my pugs the first couple weeks and get my raider IO high enough that people will invite me/join me.
P.S. I’m making a DK tank now and hope he isn’t just waiting for “war within” to find out if he’s useful.