At absolute WORST they could’ve given you the option to spend the coins for “forfeiting” your vault on a charge of the catalyst early. You get what? 6 coins from completing the M+ row? Have it cost 6 coins.
It’s still a “bad” option, but Blizzard seems absolutely against giving it away “for free” at a decent time.
You must not care about being competitive. That’s fine, but don’t get in the way of those who are. Tier is essential if you want to be competitive. If you don’t, then why do you care either way?
Yes, but coming this late is ridiculous. The timing of it is the point of the topic. There is no downside to providing low item level tier sets of LFR/normal quality very early in the tier and allowing ilvl to be the progression system.
On the flip side, there are large problems with just gating tier sets needlessly behind layers of RNG. I’m complaining as a raider clearing 3 and soon 4 difficulties of raid to get tier. How do you think a m+/pvp player feels??? how many months of rng and time gatekeeping must they endure to get the tier set? People are actively gating content behind having this tier, and soon that gating will start expanding to levels that don’t even need it to complete. It’s toxic. I’m not excited to get tier I’m relieved.
It’s 2023. Give easy access to tier to all players within the first 3-4 weeks at maximum. Let item level carry the rpg progression load.