That doesn’t answer my question though
“Why is it being brought up in a discussion about RDF”?
RDF is literally only heroics. People were only strict when doing achievement runs for the red proto drake.
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- People wearing cloth to bypass gearscore → was fixed in very early versions of the addon.
- Gearscore was based on the ilvl of the gear (it was later replaced by in game score with medium ilvl of all your items)
- The addon also had a threshold of an average geared player for each tier, which gave you a good idea on how equipped the players were
The way you will use your gear may be fluid, gearing is linear on Wrath unlike TBC / Classic
Why are you even discussing anything related to raids at all? stop derailing the thread.
Can you tell me why Blizzard added RDF in the first place?
I’ve been scouring through blue posts but can’t find anything. Since you dislike it so much, you must know why they put it in and how things are different now that we don’t need it.
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I never said anything about raids and the thread is about RDF lmao
Am I being trolled or do you not realize the topic you are commenting on?
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Faerlina is like the toxic capitol of classic lol
Very few pieces in TBC were kept for a long time, DST, the stupid feral helm, some really good badge items.
Most things that were kept were trinkets and librams/totems/etc.
90% of gear in TBC was linear.
Hell, holy uses the same libram from p1 til the end.
Now if you were arguing classic, that was much less linear.
As you see here you brought up raids for some odd reason. I’m not even referring to raids
TBC was not even 70% linear.
Wrath is 100% Linear. You will not go back to old raids or need to farm dungeons for a best slot item (besides badges of course).
Originally, Mages and Shadow priests would keep using their crafted set from Tailoring until T6. thanks to the changes accumulated to 2.4.3 they changed the gearing tho.
If you look through every spec, every class, very few are using items from earlier tiers. Your 70% is laughable. 90%+ of BiS p5 gear is BT/Hyjal/SWP.
Only thing people really went back for was DST, and honestly I’d argue that’s a problem with DST being too good vs other items being bad.
You didn’t understand what gear score was.
You still don’t understand what linear is.
He is right to an extent tho. You want all heroic get, all naxx, all uld, all toc then all ICC. You will never use anything prior to the existing raid
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Linear, you upgrade from one tier, to the next, in a LINE, LINEAR.
And I stated what GS was and is, a score based on ilvl of the item and equipped slot/item type
Not in all cases with current theorycrafting.
Like I’ll never replace my p1 badge libram.
But sure, some trinkets are less linear in TBC, and there’s not as many “god tier” early items. 90% of gear in tbc is linear.
And you aren’t wrong about gearscore. I clearly remember having a “gear manager” set specific for looking for pugs I would switch to my real gear once in the raid
Nobody who makes groups has ever asked people about mount speed, and in TBC non epic flying mounts were 60%. Flight paths exist, this is reaching.
Correct me if I am mistaken cause it has been a very long time. Your libram isn’t playing a big roll in gearscore
Yea, that one was a weird one…
Not only that, you can buy better items every new tier as the items that used to cost valor from phase 1 will be acquired with badges from heroics in the next tier, and subsequently.
You will never have to run NAXX to get geared. You will never have to run MALYGOS to get a BIS item after you eliminate that tier.
You will never have to run an heroic to get a BIS item beyond pre-bis drop (with exception perhaps Holy pally)
I mean, aside from DST you never run Kara for gear, you never run Mags for gear, you never run TK or SSC for gear.
Gruuls was literally the only outlier, once you moved on to the next tier you didn’t look back.
You ran them for badges once they added them, and the badge system was an entirely different feature.