So far BFD 3 times and I have only gotten 1 piece which was for my off-spec…this is running with as much variety in comp as possible. Loot competition is very high given the lack of gear variety (no plate, hpals for example rolling on healing leather, etc.).
There are also a ton of arguably useless or niche pieces that come out of the raid. A ring that increases stealth detection only. Or a ring that increases swim speed by 10% only.
Leather shoulders with 0 stats but 4 physical damage increase to beasts. But then last boss dropping leather shoulders with 8 agil 10 stam like what
Then you have epic pieces which I have seen none of in these 3 full clears.
there’s also a warlock epic soul shard bag in there, which I have yet to see or hear of anyone getting. The loot tables are huge and have interesting stuff in them, but it doesn’t seem there will be enough time to actually get these items. Also a 14 slot epic bag.
Just feels bad.
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It took me 7 SFK runs to see ONE piece of cloth drop (the shoulders, which thankfully I won).
That place is a cloth gold mine… Sometimes RNGsus just doesn’t hear your prayers.
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Bosses should drop four items.
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This is why we see GDKPs pop up. You could easily go 2 months without seeing much of anything. They really should consider having another extra item drop per boss.
This is supposed to be for fun, right? More loot = more fun.
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The raid has a three day lockout. You’ll gear up pretty fast if you do every lockout.
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It doesn’t feel like enough. The loot tables on the bosses are very large.
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Maybe, but each boss drops two pieces for a 10 man raid. that’s a lot of loot per week. maybe you won’t get bis every slot, but you’ll get plenty of gear.
you’ll be able to take on level 26 quest mobs without bis level 25 gear.
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That’s kinda my point though, what’s with the huge amount of loot with unique niche items, epic new bags etc. but not enough time to earn it before moving onto level 26+.
when the game relesed, bis lists and simulations deciding your gearing paths didn’t exist. The intent was for each player to be developing their toon their own way, with what items and stats they got their hands on and believed to be good. in a sense, no two identical players.
in the modern era, we develop the theoretical best supercharacter model, and then dedicate our gameplay trying to become this mythical creature.
i believe in SoD they try to capture the old philosophy, not the new one.
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Well old philsophy doesn’t matter. It’s going to be minmax at some point no matter what they do, that’s the nature of the internet.
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If you look at LFG people are literally requiring you to have a certain level of gear to get in a lot of groups. You can say just avoid those people but they are many. This is just the new WoW mentality.
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Thats because people don’t want to fail.
Certain gear equals experience equals sucess. Aproximately at least.
As you can get carried its a bad metric anyway
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I’m not sure 10 man raids in a temporary season really should be on a lockout at all, but maybe a 1 day lockout like a heroic dungeon instead of a 3 day lockout would be nice.
It’d also make it less of a big deal if it doesn’t go well.
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in the end it is only a 3 day lockout, meaning 2 runs per week.
Imagine weekly lockout
Your right the raid shouldn’t drop anything. You can clear it with greens and kill lvl 26 mobs. Some people do more than PvE in this game my guy. That weapon is a 70AP upgrade. Almost a 3rd of the possible AP at that level. I would like to get it ASAP so I can actually play this game and not be gimped
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6 7/7 runs so far, 0 epics have dropped.
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2 drops per boss for 10 people seems more than fair, RNG keeps Rnging
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that’s what this post is about, though. the loot tables are massive, this phase is allegedly going to be short, so tons of cool/niche/epic items that won’t even be seen before we move on at this rate.
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Our guild has only participated in 3 lock-outs of the raid and we have 2 Deadly Strike of the Hydra. So…
The drop-rates seem fine. 3 day reset over a period of 8 weeks is like 18 lock-outs. You loot 15 pieces of gear each lock-out, 1 Pearl + 14 other random items. You’ll get 10 pearls and then literally hundreds of pieces of loot.
Am I missing something here?