WoD gearing was the best iteration of gearing, 1 wep upgrade on top would be ideal but WoD gearing should be the standard.
Templates no bueno.
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Whats funny is this was an argument at the end of BFA going into SL. Look at the turd this gearing system became.
Templates are a necessary evil. Imbalanced gear levels between players in pvp is a thing of the past. People are sick of it and clearly have better things to do with their time than getting farmed for hours to get a crappy honor set that makes no difference anyway.
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This is the correct answer. Templates are boring.
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Yep, it was evident as Random Battleground queues in WoD were instant-7sec 24/7. Even lower leveling brackets were 30secs-1min, and we had WAY more brackets back then because of no level squishâŠ
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By choose, you mean copy and paste whatever some pro player is using, or whatever icey veins tells you to.
This whole âplayer choiceâ concept has probably been WoWâs longest running joke
Templates were hot garbage.
Thank god theyâre going back to WoD gearing.
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I mean templates only really worked if you wanted to play exactly how the devs envisioned your class/spec would play. Any kind of build was just broken because the templates were hardstuck to one thing. Now if we could choose the templates we would be doing fine with legion temps and WoD gearing
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SL gearing being garbage doesnât make templates any better. Both are bad, wod gearing should be the goal.
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i see people say this but it always comes across as major cope imo
the good players still got high ratings with those templates.
and to this day we still kind of have templates now. its basically a template that says how much dmg X class X spec does.
if a guy masters druid and has 90000 rating on it⊠his starfire will still do the same damage as an equally geared player whos low rated/bad⊠thats a template
wod gearing will have the same problem. just normalize everyone with templates and have gear be miniscule increase in power
Templates almost killed the PVP scene for PVP players in Legion.
But more PVE player did do PVP because of templates which was Brolinkaâs goal. But it drove away too many PVP players which is why they went with the Battle for Abilities PVP system and then Systemanlands PVP systems after Legion.
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Sounds like a win.
For Brolinka.
Not for PVP community.
The best season of shadowlands was the 1st one when pve players were incentivized to participate. Huge rbg scene, arena participation high.
The cost was that PVE gearing was really subpar for season 1 of Systemlands.
They needed to do something because PVE gearing in BFA rained gear but they pulled back too much for the start of this expansion.
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But pve player participation was a GOOD thing. S1 was fun
Any system is fine provided it allows for anyone to reach best in slot gear for pvp without being forced to do content that they donât want to do. It doesnât have to be at the same pace, some might travel the road slower than others but everyone eventually finishes the journey if they want to.
I have never felt that way about World of Warcraft.
No it wonât. You clearly didnât play WoD if you thought equalizing gear and have one of each set was bad lmao
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/Sigh man thereâs a ton of different builds in SL. Eles were playing necro mastery builds or kryian one shots. Warriors can play 3 of 4 covenants. Ret can do Kyrian or necro. Virtually every spec has more than one option to play in SL. That is one perk of SL, probably more so than ever before. hell absterge was playing NF resto for f sake.
Templates were not fun or good and PvP pop took a dive.
And then dropped off a cliff when they didnât need it anymore. How is that a good thing? Pvers donât want to PvP and pvprs donât want PvE. Thankfully in df that crap is going away.
You really donât seem to get whatâs actually good for PvP.
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