I don’t know why blizzard didn’t implement it yet.
Get gear in your main and send it to the alt.
People will love making a bunch of alt with this.
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I’ll assume it’s sarcasm.
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Have you never heard of catchup gear tokens and heirloom gear?
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It works for ESO.
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I hope this is a midweek sunday post. If not, WoW isn’t the game for you.
I think they should do mostly account bound stuff. Wow should shift toward player focused stuff and away from character focused.
Characters are just toolsets you use to play. Being more able to switch these toolsets and try the game from other perspectives is beneficial.
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I’d quit the day that went in.
I don’t want to play an account progression game.
I want to play a character progression game.
I want more character focus, more benefit to having a “main”. Only cosmetics, in my world, would be accountbound.
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This ^
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Why? If you only play a main it doesn’t change anything. This would only give you more options, time, and the ability to more easily enjoy alts if you choose to use them.
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Because I don’t play account progression games.
Those penalize people that don’t play alts.
If you play alts, you are infinitely more useful than a person that doesn’t…in an account progression game.
So yes, it does change things. Immensely.
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It wouldnt effect you then. Just don’t send gear to alts
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What penalties would there be?
Only differences is you’d only need a main. All your alts would benefit from your main doing anything. You wouldn’t have to regrind things on alts. Again. If you chose to use them.
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Think bigger.
You are in a progression raid team. Only 20 people can be picked.
You have person X. He only plays a melee. You have person Y. He plays a melee, but has an equally geared healer and range. All FOTM classes he can switch to.
Who do you think gets the spot?
Everyone would just switch to meta/fotm classes.
Every raid would be stacked in ideal meta load outs.
If you werent a DH, Rogue, etc. You just dont get invited to m+.
The penalties would be if you dont have a stable of alts…you don’t get to participate in challenging content.
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I can understand your view on this, I don’t necessarily agree but but I get why a completely account progression game can be bad.
What I would at least like to see is the ability to mail bind on equip gear and gold cross server and cross faction. Gold selling us a thing of the past, there is no reason for any restrictions in the mail system anymore.
I am fine with there being catch up quality BoA gear.
Moving gold across servers would have to be looked at carefully, because it can screw with economies.
One of the side-effects of having access to better endgame gear through WQs than I ever used to have in the old days is that crafting my alts BoE catchup gear is no longer my endgame.
This idea of WoW not being an account-level game is still a little new to me.
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WoW has never been an account progression game.
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WoW will die the day characters become “just toolsets”.
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That’s just an argument for shifting to a singular economy then. One linked AH for all realms. That is the one legacy system that is holding back true cross realm play.
Realms are meaningless now in the actual open world game because of CRZ and sharding. The only thing that keeps realms relevant is the AH and even that is reduced because of linked realms. If they won’t actually merge and shut down realms it’s time to link all realms, merge all AH into one and open cross realm guilds/mythic raid groups to everyone.
Realms should be nothing but a log in point to preserve names and nothing else.
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To be fair top progression guilds have multiple Max level characters for this reason so if you were in one you would gimp yourself