Gearing next patch

PVP Arenas
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actually seems like it might be okay

no titanforge/warforge

azerite rng reduced (all azerite will have a specific trait on first ring on every az piece)
these were pretty typically stacked like for example
wowhead has things like
flashpoint for destro
festermight for unholy
natural harmony for enhance

everything is implying sockets are going away with tf/wf and only obtained via currency grind (on a weekly cap)

a few essences requirements apparently nerfed
(2lazy to source but iirc lucid dreams and bote reduced)

could be the most inclusive patch for alts and returning players
:pray: that they nerf tank trinkets and fix the meta a little and it could make the remainder of bfa playable

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If you are able to get a +15 chest and 2400+ pvp chest you can gear up pretty decently.

pve gear will still be aids and class balance will still be aids

if they removed mana rift it’s prolly the best patch bfa has ever had yet. but blizz seems do not to have a brain and a love for money

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I like how we pay for expacs to be finally somewhat enjoyable 2 years later

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when 2400+/m10 is equiv to heroic raiding at 460 and the last two bosses give an extra 10ilvl.

So 460 capped gear vs 475/485 mythic gear.

edit: guess I heard wrong, but even if it’s 475 at max m+/rating still losing out on stat flexibility, plus azerite combinations as usual and 10 ilvl. Also still no account wide essences.

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i’m pretty sure 2400 box is 470 and m+15 chest is 470 though

spammable loot though is 465 no?

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Mythic 15+ gives 475 ilvl
Glad gives 475 ilvl

Spamming M10-14 gives 460
Spamming M15+ gives 465

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Watch for me its not going to be fist of fury, my absolute best one. Going to be something stupid like glory of the dawn or sunrise technique

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Monk

  • Brewmaster: Training of Niuzao
  • Mistweaver: [ Secret Infusion]
  • Windwalker: [Open Palm Strikes]
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You got a link where they say this?

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naw they should just cut out all this azerite, essence shxt and give us vendors back

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https://www.wowhead.com/news=296704/your-best-trait-will-be-on-every-piece-of-nyalotha-azerite-armor#monk

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Thanks 10char

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that’s a really low bar to beat and I remain unconvinced that blizzard can handle anything gear related properly after only 15 years of practice

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From what I read it looks like gearing next patch will be worse than this one.

Currently there are two grinds to gearing… neck level and gear.

Next patch will be neck level and gear plus cloak level and regrinding your gear after you get a high enough corruption resistance stat.

They essentially doubled the grind. After you get your cloak to a high rank and sitting on 91% corruption resistance, you are going to want to be grinding for more gear and hoping for corruptforging.

Blizz doubled the grind.

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I’m just very interested in whether corrupted passives will be enabled in PvP or not. Hoping that isn’t the case

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Have you guys seen this video?

Kevin Jordan, one of the original game designers, gives his thoughts on corrupted gear.

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Some Boomer giving his thoughts… OK :roll_eyes:

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Ret trait on every piece is the +5 sec on wings and aoe splash from holy power consumers and it doesnt even stack.

Way to go to use a trait that we only want one of on every piece.

Great job blizz.

Also gearing will be trash because you will be forced to farm that legendary cloak in its own content, vision thing, farm +15 every week, and farm disgusting on proc weapons with corruption on it. And farm socket item for every piece. And then farm item that drop bis stats with corruptforged bis stat bonus for you aswell.

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Well neck level will be like how artifact wpns were at end of legion. Really only a minor thing, but even less as now it will only increase the ilvl for each lvl now.

But the cloak part yeah that will be “interesting”

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So next patch you guys think it’s worth pushing high arena rating right out of the gate? M+15 seems doable. no prob. But grinding arena rating from 0. ewww. Dang that’s gonna be :crazy_face::crazy_face: