Does anyone even like this gear upgrade level stuff? I feel like you did the work you got the gear its just silly to constantly have to upgrade each piece of armor or weapon. You did mythic or you pvp and then guess what now you got to upgrade it not sure whose idea it was but are the majority of players even in favor of this?
Also why does pvp gear only scale for BG and Arenas? Why does it not also scale for warmode in outdoor world. I know there is not much outdoor world pvp that happens but it would make sense
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I don’t particularly like the 2k cap on flightstones or that the gear is on different tracks. I would prefer it all to be one upgrade track, but still keep the crest system to upgrade past certain ilvls. Otherwise I love getting the item I need and not feeling like I need to redo the content at a higher difficulty for a few extra ilvls.
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Hard pass, it’s great
The upgrade currency is the only issue
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I love the idea of a perpetually upgradeable gear to the current max ilvl.
EDIT…something akin to heirlooms but with a token or some SINGULAR currency we earn
I HATED this 8/8 crap. Hated it. Someone should be reprimanded for even putting it on the table of bad ideas to suggest, lol
This, very much this. Double and triple currency gates are the problem.
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I’m not sure how I feel about the idea of reducing reward tracks. On one hand the crests pretty much gate the progression. If you can’t do content that drops the crests you can’t upgrade anyways. It is annoying needing to replace items at various steps to be able to upgrade further but I think there’s legitimate design reasons to have some progression gates to draw out engagement.
I do love the upgrade system in concept though and how it is implemented seems to work well. My only complaints is that it doesn’t feel like flight stones are awarded at a reasonable rate alongside the crests.
You can get into situations where if all you want to do is run mythics you wont have enough flightstones to use the crests you have. That can be very annoying.
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Ideally, you’d apply the bullion loot track to every item so players have 14 levels to upgrade with crests and those dumb stones.
But if that happened, there’d be no incentive to raid Mythic because you could run LFR for drops and upgrade them to Mythic quality by doing M+ alone.
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I’m sure some people do. Personally, I hate it and it’s made me completely burnt out and apathetic towards ilvl and gearing. I used to always take the time to get each season’s best set for my content level but now? Meh. 
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Are you joking? This is the best gearing has ever been by a huge margin
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After 3 seasons of this, I think I prefer just having the gear drop and be as it is even if that makes me objectively weaker.
Grinding crests to upgrade every item is pretty tiresome, and all it does is shift the expectation of your gear. It doesn’t help that crest acquisition is wack in keys vs raids (aspects take mythic raids vs a +6???)
It does shrink the gap between the best and next best gear down to 6 item levels, but I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not.
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People disagreed with him so hard he deleted the character
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I’m sure he’ll be back on a new one spamming us shortly.
Yes. It’s what I asked for, along with some others.
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There’s too many currencies in this game. They don’t need to introduce a new one every patch (or so it seems). Upgrading gear is fine, in and of itself.
Who even was it? Looks like Tyraelz, but us Dracthyr all look the same on this forum half the time.
I’m digging the more relaxed cap and catalyst charge distribution this season. And overall I like the gearing in Dragonflight over previous expansions.
Agreed. Flightstones should just be to upgrade WQ gear, crest upgrades should only require crests, not also require flightstones
It’s nice to have the ability to continue upgrading so you can push harder and harder content easier and easier. Makes you feel like there is progression. Now the currency situation should be changed(just let us do it with one currency type) but upgrading itself as a concept is cool and good
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If it was just flight stones or just crests it wouldn’t be as bad
They also need to fine tune the ranges you get the crests as well, but it’s blizzard so not super high hopes for that
An interesting way they could do it is just be flightstones or whatever they’re called, but the max ilvl you can go to increases based on the content you’re doing instead
I don’t know who was behind the account…but the name was Transxxxxxx (I can’t remember the rest of it).
Edit: Oh, it still shows in on their profile. It was Transjennér
I’m not surprised it got reported enough to force a name change.