Gearing is terrible and unrewarding because of casuals

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I cant imagine getting worked up over what some stranger has in a video game.It doesnt affect you at all.

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clearly delusion but i really dk think what you want

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I mean, your under the impression that we spend 6 hours a day playing non stop, thats pretty delusional or massively misinformed.

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I wish my life was so good that strangers getting gear in WoW was the worst of my problems.

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Most people donā€™t really care about others getting gear, what most care about is the method of which that gear is acquired.

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413

he;s onto somthing now

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One of the reasons Classic is so good is because gear is powerful and rewarding to get. You can feel your power increase with every upgrade.

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Agreed, that rewarding feeling is sorely missed by me and a lot of otherā€™s.

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And look, Blizzard even went you one better and took it all the way back to Vanilla. Itā€™s thataway>>>>>>>>>>>please go there.

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Suffering my foot.

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I think itā€™s awful
There is no real talent selection. Trait selection has been trash and secondary stats donā€™t matter at all below mythic raiding.

Gear is the only character customization and progression, boning the majority who donā€™t give a crap about mythic raiding sucks.

I am not looking for guidance. I was getting server firsts in BT, Sunwell, and ICC when I was super serious.

The issue is that the last little bit of control I had of how my toon played is dead. My cast times are awful because I have to nerf my overall damage to accommodate the non dimishment of intellects value on the 15 I level bumps I get outta my cache weekly and ignore haste or mastery because the only upgrades O get are CRIT and vers.

It sucks. Raid gear is relevant for like 3 resets even though all I want to do is heroic.

I am not looking for help nor do I want to run mythic raids. I hate recycled content.

I am pointing out that there is no character progression outside of gear and that gear now provides that in a completely random way.

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it sure is and will be greater in 8.2 FTW!!!

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Rep/gold, thatā€™s all it took to do dailies in order to get the rep rewards. WQs are random trash in comparison.

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Balance, and everyone who whines about it, can eat a stuffed doll at this point. The game has had all the fun ā€œBalancedā€ out of it.

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Amen. Balance has flattened and homogenized the game into a boring grindfest.

Whether itā€™s e-sports, financial constraints, or just a straight up lack of will that has led to this is irrelevant.

The game essentially has no soul. If I read another person extol the benefits of content such as transmog or pet battles and act like itā€™s some amazing thing that I couldnā€™t do better on the Sims or Pokemon, I may physically get ill.

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The funny thing I think is calling people who donā€™t raid high level, casual.

Iā€™ve been here since 2005 and Iā€™ve done a crapload of stuff in game but I choose not to raid high level stuff. Am I considered a casual? I doubt a bunch of players who only do raids have done half the things I have in game.

If anything I should be considered hardcore for being here that long. :wink:

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Everyone has a different definition for it.

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Sadly they can upgrade to 430 (heroic raid quaility).

Blizzards reward structure is awful this expansion.

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IMO Blizzard did mess up. But not the way you think. They thought that if they made gear more available to more players they would raid. I donā€™t think thatā€™s the case. Players get the gear and just sit on it and donā€™t go raiding. The system is good for returning players to quickly get back into raiding. But for raiders it takes away from gear as part of the reward for raiding.

In the past the gear was the half of reward for raiding. Now when you can look up a players in almost 400 level gear and see theyā€™ve never done a normal or above raid the meaningful gear reward is gone for the raider.

My solution is to keep the current gear system but add a whole bunch of unique rewards for normal and above raiding. Add a bunch of cool mounts, pets, transmog sets, etc that you can only get from raiding. Players will care a whole lot less about gear as a symbolic reward. Blizzard will also get a lot more players wanting to raid. I mean no one is doing Warfronts or Island Expeditions because theyā€™re fun. Theyā€™re doing them for the stuff you get in them!

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While Iā€™m a casual, I agree on the gear system. Why should I go into normal mode raid while I can get gear from WQs?