Relics of the past look interesting but the system doesn’t appear to be working as intended yet (reported bug just in case)
Because the ilvls of crafted goods from all expansions seem to be defaulting to basically classic endgame levels, that’s causing their vendor prices to be only a fraction of what they are on live. Given that the system does not appear to be fully functional yet, it’s hard to tell what the intended behavior of vendor prices is yet.
If vendor prices do scale to ilvl once the system is working, I expect people using crafting as a raw gold farm will craft “relics of the past V” to slot in to the item they are making to raise its ilvl to the highest tier (100). Material-wise, this is pretty trivial at the moment, but it does add an extra step of clicking.
But it is all personal loot and set to scale to a minimum raid level. 10 people. So there are 9 imaginary people getting loot that you will never see. You’re just not getting your personal loot. Legacy Loot allows you to obtain all the loot whether it is your personal loot or not.
I heard on YouTube that, apparently, the reason why people are getting a low number of items in dungeons and raids is because of the lvl squish that blizz still haven’t finished polishing. That is, since it is not polished, the loot system is on “personal loot”. In theory, it’s nothing to be worried about and it’s just a matter of time until blizz polishes the lvl squish thingy.
I’ve been noticing the same trend, but I don’t think it’s a return-to-vanilla state of mind they want. I bet they are gonna go hard at getting us to buy tokens to afford gold things in game.
(Us being the average player who just plays and does not go out of their way to spend 6-8 hours a day with the latest vendor shuffle)
Or more likely, Blizzard is actively trying to stop people from getting the Brutosaur because they are afraid of there being too many players having access to a mount with Auction House access.
The Auction House is one of Blizzard’s primary tools for increasing the number of players in Orgrimmar and Stormwind.
Just to update observations with the lastest PTR patch for you:
course leather wristguards on live: 19g42s14c
course leather wristguards on PTR: 23s25c
course leather wristguards with relic of the past V on PTR: 24g24s87c
( relic of the past V currently requires 7 leather from any expansion )
If (big if) the costs were to remain at their current level, it will require slightly more leather but if bones are the limiting resource gold farmers run into rather than , it actually generate slightly more gold.
