The problem with the new legendary bow is simple; the multiple difficulty scaling of the item.
This isn’t fun game design. I shouldn’t have to bank on not getting lucky once, but twice, or possibly even thrice if I kill Sylvanas on all three difficulties. Who thought that making the Sinews equally as rare as the bow was a good idea? The fact that some were lucky enough to loot it, shouldn’t have to continue playing slots every single week to just upgrade their legendary weapon.
Something like this should be a guaranteed drop, or at least, a more reasonable drop rate. Think about it; we have so many sources for ranged weapons in the game that can drop from the vault, meanwhile the bow and sinew have only one source on top of it not being able to drop from the vault.
This is something that should never happen again. Legendaries should either have a way to upgrade them through tokens or quests, rather than banking on the RNG of receiving the item, and then receiving an item as rare as the preceding item just to upgrade it.
Plus - if you are an active raider or M+ player, the likelihood is that you will replace the legendary bow if you received it on Normal, and maybe Heroic as well. That is something that really has not happened yet, whenever a legendary is introduced (bar the crafted legendaries) they are powerful enough to continue using between tiers or possibly longer in some very rare instances. The legendary bow is the first legendary that can be replaced within the same tier purely due to ilvl.
There is no reason as to why the Sinews should be rare, let alone as rare as the legendary bow itself.
I still wonder if there will be other legendaries that are like mourneblades.
Primus is just “Ugh The Jailer is making mourneblades with my memories of them. How can we counter that?” while Darion Mograine is just “Sup?” since he canonically made a weapon stronger than Frostmourne with no real training in smithing.
Then maybe you should be treating it like literally any other weapon you’re not guaranteed to upgrade week-to-week. Hell, originally it didn’t even have the orange text…it was just another epic weapon that happened to have a special ability. Not unlike that sword that eats other swords.
I’m not treating it like another weapon because it’s not another weapon. Sure, it wasn’t originally a legendary, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that it is in the live client. Which, again, my argument still stands.
We’re not talking about datamining, which has nothing to do with the sinews, or the bow in it’s current iteration.
Yep. Then they yoinked it from us before it went live. I mean, they could have kept the LFR version in but made it so that only N/H versions were upgradeable. I think most LFR players would have been happy with that change and it wouldn’t have made organized raiders feel like they had to run LFR for the bow since it’d have the lowest stats and couldn’t be upgraded later.