Yesterday I ran awakened Primal Bulwark and Caverns of Infusion on two separate characters. I hop on to complete them today to find there’s now a 463 iLvl requirement. That’s disappointing because across those four runs, we completed them all (relatively) easily. I was so excited for season 4 to enjoy the awakened raids as they prepared me with the appropriate iLvl gear for pugs and possibly guild raids, but it seems like it’ll be a slow slow climb across all my chars. Sure an iLvl requirement is necessary, but a 463 requirement is too high. A 10-15 point reduction would ensure the whole of the raid is geared enough while not separating players from S4 endgame content longer than is needed. I don’t know how many others were at a 430 iLvl like myself but we dang sure got it done!
Most players aren’t meant to run LFR anymore.
Specially with these Cache of Storms dropping 350 green gear.
The ilvl is too high. Should be at 440 or 450. Not 463. You should be able to do the previous LFR and then hop into the new one. Not have to do abunch of other content like world content that is a roulette if you’re going to get lucky with 350 or 460 gear, farm heroics/mythics, or do timewalking all for the hopes to try and get into current LFR.
Exactly this. And by the time I’m geared up for LFG Awakened, I’ll be geared up for Mythics+ too which drop 480 base iirc.
Whoever made the decision to put it at 463 really needs to be given another job. Most people doing LFR in season 3 barely have that. Ilvl 440 is plenty. I had to cheat to get my hunter in there this afternoon after the change but the group actually killed things slower than the group I did this morning before the change.
this is what I expected going in, and I’m going to say that LFR not requiring 463 yesterday was a bug.
It’s the exact same as S3 was relative to S2. S2 drakes crests stopped at 424, and S3 drakes crests stopped at 463. The ilvl of the game went up by 39, and 424+39=463.
I suspect that would be because you had fewer people in the 2nd group carrying the group for tier tokens.
Thanks for the ridiculous ilvl!! At the very least you could have updated the regular LFR to ilvl 463 so we could at least gear up in the norm LFR raids to get to awakened.
As others have mentioned, most LFR players do not have 463. Honestly, I do not want to spend a lot of time gearing characters to enjoy end game content that will only be around until about the end of the year. A new expansion is on the horizon, why bother.
You get 460+ gear from Normal dungeons and 476+ from Heroic dungeons. Spam them.
All LFR gear and ED gear was upgradeable to 463.
That is their own fault, as LFR gear was upgradable to 463 last season.
If they chose not to upgrade it, then that is a choice they made.
The timewalking dungeons are dropping 460+ gear atm which seems strange since they’re so easy, I got a 467 weapon today in mana tombs. I do think 463 is a bit high for awakened but with the dreaming sparks, timewalking and other events it shouldn’t take too long on a single character but a little slow for multiple alts
I mean, it’s the exact same relative ilvl as the requirement for Amirdrassil was last season.
Dragon Isle World boss in valdraken and the three dragon Isle activities are also giving out veteran gear which starts at 480. There are very easy ways to catch up to 463.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Like honestly most of my toons ar hovering around 458 or so and I’m doing plenty enough dps and already cleared all wings on my mage so like wtf gives Lol. They need to reduce the restriction asap.
How is it too high that a little over normal dungeons lol
I think the item level requirement wasn’t increased when it should have been for Awakened raids; I noticed on Broodkeeper Diurna Looking For Raid yesterday that an item level four hundred something was able to queue and enter the instance. I’m glad the requirement was raised as the content is dropping item level four hundred eighty-something gear.
For those of you struggling with this, Dreambound items from the tail end of Season 2 still drop and are around 460 ilvl after Season 4 started.
glad i did a few LFR yesterday on alts. got the normal and mythic colors of ASHKANDUR which is all i need
This needs to be changed back, the ilvl before was fine.
This legit outright killed me doing it on my alts.
370 was not fine, it was letting people queue who did not have enough health to provide any meaningful contribution to the group.
463 this season is the exact same as 424 was last season, so if that wasn’t a problem then IDK why this time it is.
I geared up my “raid ready” warlock boost from 424 to 477 doing world content 5 timewalking and 2 heroic dungeons. lfr gave me exactly 0 ilvl upgrades (but one sidegrade in the form of pants i guess) so honestly 463 doesn’t seem that bad, just go do some wq first bruv.