Off Spec drops from assaults and emissaries

[Omgitzademon-area-52]

Blizzard, what is the thought process behind awarding off spec items for assaults and emissaries when the azerite reforging cost system is designed for rewarding players who stick with a spec? If you are going to reward off spec weapons and items for this content then remove this nonsense cost increase from the reforging and just make it a static fee that doesnt change. There is absolutely no reason to award items for an off spec when the item level displayed for the reward is a potential upgrade for a main spec. Why has this been allowed to go on for this long?

[Rhielle-sentinels (Rhielle)]

It’s changing soon. But it’s been like this since Legion. Loot spec currently only applies to dungeons and raids like it did for years prior.

Here’s the blue post:

@Watcher

We’ve heard this feedback a lot, and we agree. In Season 2, emissary caches and similar rewards like Assault wrapper quests will award loot based on your spec (or loot spec, if chosen) instead of your class.

Standard world quests will continue to provide rewards based on class rather than spec, for two reasons:

1. You can see the exact reward up-front, and choose whether or not to do the content if the reward doesn’t interest you. This also can offer a way to shore up weak off-spec slots without worrying that you might miss out on a major upgrade.
2. If world quest rewards were spec-based, it might seem like the right behavior to cycle through your specs when evaluating potential rewards for every world quest, especially early in a tier, which seems like pretty annoying gameplay.

But neither of those reasons applies to something like emissaries or Assaults, where you don’t see what the reward will be until the end. And as you say, it can be frustrating if it’s for a spec you have no intention of playing, or it can simply feel like a bug. So we’re changing it.

[Jelybeantoes-moon-guard (Jelybeantoes)]

But it’s been like this since Legion.

Emissaries in Legion did not contain gear that was intended to be useful. The only use was disenchant.

[Sabbia-moonrunner (Sabbia)]

It’s been that way since Legion but what everyone seems to forget is that Legion didn’t have weapon drops. The loot spec thing is more related to that then it is armor pieces.

[Rhielle-sentinels (Rhielle)]

Emissaries in Legion did not contain gear that was intended to be useful. The only use was disenchant.

It was useful for my alts. It was intended to be used by someone while quickly gearing.

It’s been that way since Legion but what everyone seems to forget is that Legion didn’t have weapon drops.

I didn’t forget. I was simply saying that it’s been that way just for info purposes. There was no mention of how impactful it was. It’s just there to say that’s why it is the way it is. Blizz didn’t think of how it would affect weapons. They just implemented what was already there. Which is why they’re changing it now.

[Sabbia-moonrunner (Sabbia)]

Yeah, just another in the long line of Blizzard’s “oops, we didn’t think of that” moments.