Is it just me or is the vendor now the ONLY way to get azerite gear that is any kind of respectable iLvl?
And, if this is the case…
How is one supposed to get gear for sets if they, say like my brother, are looking to try something completely new? Are they forced to waste precious Residuum on near worthless 355s?
Couldnt help but notice my cache gave me legs on Tuesday…Which leads me to my next question…
Am I ONCE AGAIN being given a thing that LOOKS like its supposed to be farmable but actually cant be farmed reliably leading to, yet again, more time gating?
vendor, world quests, dungeons, raids, emissary chest, warfronts. all the same as always. the new vendor just gives you a way to get a guaranteed chance at getting a piece of azerite gear.
It absolutely is not the same. World quests give me 325s which are a worthless iLvl and dont even give residuum. Dungeons give 340s at best, which I am told give a whopping 1 residuum, Raids seem to be the best option but that is one chance at decent iLvl once a week.
Maybe I shoudl rephrase. How do I get 370 Azerite or better gear? That is what I/we need. Before this patch I had lots, my cup overflowed with it. I cant get a hold of any now.
I get most of mine from warfronts, the new one has a chest that can give 385 gear, which includes a chance at 385 azerite gear. mythic+ dungeons, emissary chests, and raids… again nothings really changed.
wait til season 2 drops, then they will jump all the item levels up and you can get 370 more readily.
I feel like people dont understand my point. My cache failed to give me a 370, it gave me legs. Only Mythic zero drops azerite gear and its only worth 1 Residuum from what I am told.
The actual answer seems to be “if you want a new set you need to go into Uldir and get all three drops.”
Nope, I mean you’re pretty much spot on. And unless you can get a full 30 man group who all agrees to give you any Azerite pieces that drop only guarantee for Residuum is M+ Weekly cache from what I understand.
It seems Blizzard is so worried about us being able to farm multiple pieces of Azerite quickly they actively go out of their way to make it a pain to actually get … yet at the same time they want us farming seperate peices for all specs you play. It’s actually comical at how idiotic this system is.
If I want to have all specs playable with Azerite traits that actually function (Not even talking BiS traits, just ones that work for that spec) I need possibly up to 12 pieces. Yet I can’t even get 3 385’s for my main spec.
World quests do not give anywhere near respectable ilvl Azerite. Emissaries no longer give Azerite (At least the 1 that used to give Azerite was changed once 8.1 dropped to give random piece of loot). Warfronts are not a way to reliably get Azerite because 1) They’re not consistenly up 2) RNG
M+'s do not drop Azerite, they never have. And now you cannot get Azerite from your M+ cache. And, at least from the 1 emissary we saw as Horde, they’ve switched those from being random armor caches and not Azerite caches.
Emissaries can still give 370. Aside from that, the once-per-month (well, twice, now) warfront quest can give azerite gear, and raids. Those are the only sources I know of.
I still think they either need for the 325 WQ gear to give residuum, or they need to upgrade those rewards to 340 (or return the gold value). Because right now, a good chunk of WQ give no reward at all. They might as well replace the 325 armor caches with 1 gold as the reward.
Blizzard wants us to farm residuum for a bit, and after we realize it’s a terrible grind they will add it to the cash shop. Blizzard is brilliant as ever, well played Blizzard.
next tier will have every boss dropping azerite gear.
blizzard realized having 5 bosses drop Azerite Armor isn’t so great, so now the whole tier does. except maybe the .5 patch mini raid; that loot table isn’t out yet.
The only change was that instead of sometimes , maybe every 2-4 weeks, you got an azerite slot in your weekly that was a random slot to now a specific slot (still random) every 2-4 weeks in addition instead of replacing your weekly item.
Then, if you really want, you can hold out for a BiS mythic raid quality item.
A 370 azerite item where you can pick the slot is only 50. That is 1 a week guaranteed and you can pick your slot from a +10 chest. 3 weeks for a 385 you can pick the slot in.
So, how could you have gone from “swimming in azerite” to suddenly starved when it’s only been made more reliable to get?