The item level for normal for level 80 is wrong and it’s still displaying 554 gears and not season 1 versions of their versions of the gears.
This isn’t a bug. Normal dungeons drop 554 item level gear, while heroic dungeons drop 580.
The real frustration comes from the fact that you need a 567 item level to queue for heroics. If someone’s only farming dungeons to gear up for heroics, they have no chance of progressing. They’re forced to look for gear through other avenues—world quests, crafting, DMF trinkets, rep gear, and Delves. I found it really frustrating to gather gear from these places just to raise my item level. World quests gave me only one viable upgrade, and I had to buy a DMF trinket for 699 gold (luckily, they’re cheap). Rep gear offered just one upgrade, and I’m not a fan of Delves. Crafting gear wasn’t an option because my Hunter didn’t have the Spark. Now, I’m stuck either waiting for world quests to cycle through for the upgrades I need or grinding through Delves over and over again.
This is such poor design. It would be so much faster to gear up by spamming dungeons if the rewards were scaled properly.
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