With the update today, heroic dungeon queues require an ilvl of 567. Normal dungeons drop 558 ilvl gear, and crafted greens and blues range from 561-564. If you cap an alt now and want to run heroics, you have no option but to buy a set of crafted gear and then spend hours mindlessly grinding valorstones to upgrade all those slots. This has completely destroyed my motivation to play an alt this patch.
“Casuals” wanted to be able to progress, but now you don’t want to progress.
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I don’t pay that close of attention to PvE, Havent done a dung at cap yet this expansion, but didn’t the Ilvl reward of normals go up also? I kinda thought they were supposed to take you to heroic minimum?
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It did not. I tested in random normal queue and then tried limiting normals to only those in the current S1 rotation. They drop gear far below the heroic requirement, essentially entirely cutting off alts from hitting that breakpoint without significant valorstone investment.
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They need to revert this ASAP.
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What happened to Renown gear? And don’t we have two sparks now? Or is it one and a half?
rush rush rush pull pull pull go go go where’s free loot
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Casuals wanted to be able to progress, but now are artificially unable to progress.
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Blizzard can’t take an easy win.
But they sure find hard ways to work for the Ls.
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Buy crafted and BOE.
If lacking funds…token it lol. Sarcasm tied to token buy bait comment.
IF lucky you find the wrong item for class cheap. I cannot lie…to clear heroic in SL I had some of the smartest DPS ever!
the str or agi items and such were priced high. Int was priced low. Okay…I’ll take that int item! Ilevel wanted to play games…I could play games too.
Crap setup really. I’d be guessing all this gear to clear is in openwolrd content that needs days to weeks to work up?
So, pay blizz because they F’ed everyone? Nah.
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Actually, when I logged in after the servers came up, the requirement was 571. Sometime after I posted this in the forums it was reduced to 567.
I’m not paying Blizzard cash for my characters’ gear. If they don’t want me to play unless I am willing to pay real money for gear, I can take the hint and not play their cash grab end game.
it’s why I play classic. Retail pulled too much of this crap I just walked away lol.
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No it wasnt…such a weird thing to do, just making random shi up. I logged in exactly when the server went up and queued heroic, it was 567 from the start
100% on this. Its ridiculous to require 567 to do heroics.
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Im actually baffled how one could get to 567 without normal dungeon loot increasing in ilvl. My world quests are offering a few 564 pieces and 1 571. delves dropping 558 gear unless you use a key. besides using gold where can you get 567+ gear at a good pace?
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People were discussing it. Someone mentioned 571 was required. I logged into a level 80 in honor gear (558) at that point to look, and saw that at that time 571 was indeed the minimum.
They are expecting players to pay whatever it takes to upgrade their normal dungeon gear.
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Only if you used your brain for a sec before saying something like this.
Normals drop 554 gear WITHOUT upgrade track. Anyone doing dungeons only simply can NOT get high enough gear to queue for heroics.
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Outside of a couple of weekly dungeons done as a Follower dungeon, a couple of delves (I think I opened one or two keyed chests), I’ve just been questing, WQs, and the weekly events. I’ve killed a bunch of simple rares, opened a bunch of treasures. Just flying around, not hunting anything, not camping anything, just flying around the land.
My valorstones were about to cap out, so I went on an upgrade spree and I’m 569 now.
I haven’t been grinding anything, and I’ve played less than 2 hours a day.
Pay up or shut up
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