I feel like once you outgrow a crest and can no longer use it - it should become uncapped.
Whenever you get the ability to convert a crest to a higher crest - for example Runed to Gilded - Runed crests should become uncapped. Buying the higher level crests still counts toward your weekly total so its not like uncapped lower crests would have any benefit outside of giving you the ability to bank them and hit your weekly cap right away or able to make lower level Enchanted crests which you would already have equal item level in that slot anyway.
Just seems like a good QoL thing blizzard could do for the playerbase.
Edit : hitting your weekly cap right away wont remove that many players from M+ because you still need 8 +10 keys for your myth gear slots.
they would just lower the cap on higher level crests to compensate. they are still going to limit them in some way
I don’t think they would have to. Higher level crests are already capped in such a way that even hitting those caps early on wont really change the progression of gear and power. Uncapping the lower crests just makes it less work to hit it on your main and be able to play your alts which I feel was a goal this expansion.
They just limit everything now, there is no escaping it. They do it without explanation also. Literally no one knows why Valorstones exist.
My guess is they are a hold over from AP when they wanted to get everyone to do all their nonsense world quests every day. There is no way to get people to do those other than dangle stuff and the stuff they dangle isn’t worth it still.
I think they’re in denial about how boring the activities in this game are.
but the lower level crests are much easier to farm, you would end up gearing faster that they probably want us to.
Im not sure what the answer is. maybe having one crest type, but making the upgrade cost much higher to compensate for the differences. each crest is basically worth 3 times as much as the previous one so it wouldnt be that hard to do the math. while this makes the system simpler, it makes it harder to time gate the higher level gear.
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They won’t go for it.
The crest cap gets removed with the x.x.5 patches for the past several seasons, and will likely happen again with 11.2.5.
If they allowed us to farm lower level crests uncapped before the gilded cap went away, people would just hoard even more lower level crests to convert to gilded and buy all the upgrades. Unless you’re suggesting we just don’t remove the gilded cap until we reach max ilvl and not at the usual seasonal marker, in which case I say no thank you.
I like how it works currently as while I am capped on how many lower crests I can get, I have a pretty decent amount ready to convert since I never needed weathered crests and I outgrew carved in a week.
This wouldn’t really do anything besides make it a faster when Turbo Boost rolls around and uncaps Gilded since you’d be able to bank infinite Runed crests and just convert them more efficiently than the current system where you have to filter them upwards inefficiently.