Firstly, on the Idea of an Item Level Bump for respective content:
I don’t think this is good in itself - for PvP this totally works since the base scaling gear is provided fairly early on to even the playing field to some extent. For PvE relevant content, it will be hard to judge how decked out someone is in M+ or Raiding Gear since the tool don’t provide a native content ilvl in the dungeon/raid tool.
Personally, I think the Dungeons and Raid being relevant isn’t an issue in itself for both Player types past the first few weeks with some work to it. What is more of a problem is that you’re forced to do Raiding and M+ intense the first few weeks to not fall behind on tier and vault options.
For me, the only way to achieve a balance and not a pressure for both ends of content, it would be to conclude the vault option into a Raid/Dungeon Vault Row instead of 2 separate ones.
How it should work:
- Player does 7 Dungeons or Raid Encounter to unlock the Row fully each week.
- The System checks the highest completed difficult in each content.
Author’s Note: If a Player cleared f.e. seven +18 Dungeons he unlocks the possibility to drop Myth Track Items out of the Raid (If he cleared some Mythic Raid Bosses once - the last two raid boss items remain locked till you defeat them once) or Dungeon.
If the Player did seven Raid Encounters he unlocks the possibility to drop Myth Track Items out of the Dungeons (if he cleared them all on +18 once) or Raid Loot.
- The Player will now get a prompt when he decides to open the Vault on Reset to choose between Raid Specific Drops or Dungeon Specific Drops from the Vault they then get generated.
- The Player can choose freely the content he likes to do each week without feeling forced into any content more then once.
This will reduce the options each week by half, but will lift some pressure and makes gearing a longer process but offers the choice of playing content you like.
Another Option would be to have 6 Raid/Dungeon shared Vault Slots in General.