Its worth discussing here too because not every class will have bis legendaries hit by this issue, let alone have many legendaries to choose from. Shamans in particular have a lot of real choice in legendary usage since most of the resto ones are usable or situational, ele has use cases for at least 3 of theirs. I think enh was in the one is way better then the others camp but still has ones that are good despite how good the windfury one is. It is definately more of a problem for classes like shaman and druid over say demon hunter, or warrior which share legendaries between specs or have less specs to begin with.
The topic is completely valid in the sense of “how does this issue hurt my class in particular?” and the answer is it hits shaman pretty hard if you’ve been going for the legos with more stats this tier.
Yeah what some people forget about tier is that it only really got bad after we got 2 tiers sets. And this was because you had 6 pieces of teir to work with so you could feasably have a 2 piece and a 4 piece set at the same time. When its 6 pieces but you only need 4 its more flexible, that chest piece in the vault or your shoulder legendary don’t necessarily need to be replaced. With the incoming system we have 5 pieces of raid gear that just are just better then other pieces because they are itemized the same, but give a tier 3 azerite trait as well. If you have a legendary there you’ll have to make the same legendary again or be weaker. These pieces also aren’t even in consistant traditional tier piece slots ie helm/chest/legs/gloves/shoulders/cloak(legion) its like helm/chest/shoulder for all then ramdomized by armor type, I think leather has belt, mail has boots, cloth has bracers, its weird. Furthermore its really bad for the game, because I’m willing to bet that these sockets will likely stick for a tier or two after we’re done with this raid, because having 252 bracers with “do 3% more damage” and a small caveat will likely beat some 275 or w/e bracers going into the next raid, but now with tier gear.