They weren’t talking about mythic plus caches. They were talking about the weekly event reward. I actually had the same thing happen a 400 helm for just about the only slot I had 400 in already.
In the Darkshore war front this morning, I got the same 400 Chest piece for the fourth cycle in a row on my Protection Pally.
Funny how I have never received a 400 weapon two cycles in a row on any of my dual wielders.
This is as “fixed” as it can get and not random at all.
Don’t worry, I got a 400 trinket from Ivus, and guess what? my 375 dooms wake still out dps’s it by 140 dps. (Was the agility with crit chance trinket from ivus)
Yeah it’d be nice to find a nice leveling piece here and there for yourself resale or an alt or something.
This has been happening to me since I switched factions to my Horde Mage. I was running a few M0s and one happened to be the world quest that awarded a 370 cloak. I got the same cloak drop in the instance as I did from the quest. Coincidence I know. Still annoying.
Also, the Voldun emissary was a 385 weapon yesterday. I was hoping for a 1-hand so I could use that with the 390 OH I have but can’t use since I have a staff. I got another OH and DE’d it. The randomness is just really awful. And considering warmode (I know it’s optional) and the assault piece of gear giving me another piece I didn’t need, I spent hours playing for basically no reward. Just got ganked for a while and gained a few crystals.
Next weekend I’ll just farm mounts.
Wait until you get the EXACT SAME ITEM two weeks in a row in your mythic plus cache.
True Story. I was pissed.
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Really don’t think we can call them rares, they are always up, maybe just elite mobs. And yes chests are a joke, I never go out of the way to get one.
…and maybe my tanks could stop getting crit/haste on everything, please?
This would be all some need. Us casuals who don’t need to be uber, we have no aspirations of mythic dominance.
But…we hate seeing RNG double up the 400’s we don’t need or need less.
Like my S.priest today for darkshore. Her first darkshore after first arathi last week.
Her 400 replaced a 370. It replaced her Arathi quest drop from about a week ago lol. There is some low as hell items 400 would be real nice on for that char.
And I am stuck in wand hell on her too. I just want a staff. Just one. I miss my artifact mog. I miss the nice lady making random morbid, sick and twisted comments. Or really apt ones. One day I was doing a turtles WQ and the voice of the dagger chimed in “boooooring”.
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I, on the other hand, got another 1 hand caster mace and I’ve never even seen an offhand better than a 330 blue.
If it makes you feel any better, I was in sort of the same boat. I got an identical 400 ilvl copy of the ring I already had on (the other ring desperately needing uograded) but since they’re both the exact same ring I couldn’t even use the second one.
They need to get rid of that rule with world quest items, it’s really stupid. Like why does it matter if I have two rings with the same name?
Worst part is, it wasn’t even world quest gear, it was heroic raid loot.
The problem Ion hasn’t dealt with the vendors is figuring out how much currency (Justice for example) to make it so that it’s not too grindy and not overly easy to obtain. If anything they should have a moderate cost for the initial set then have players work towards ‘upgrading’ that set through content kills (heroic and mythic where pieces of gear can actually drop) or can be bought through larger amount of currency. This allows for players to be able to obtain the same level of gear, but at their own pace without the BS of warforging/titanforging/chest rng.
I, for one, am sick of receiving the same items, side grades, and downgrades from a chest that now no longer gives me upgrades unless it titanforges with a socket.
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I got so sick of running instances in BC and never getting the gear I needed for higher content that by the time the token system come out I didn’t even want to run instances anymore. I just pvped and lvled toons until i quit just before cat.
Coming back I was looking forward to making actual progress with my toons to find out they went back to the endless instance running wile getting nowhere system which means I have no interest in dungeons and now little interest in the long BG ques which makes gearing up that way just as sickening.
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It’s definitely RNG. I had some polar opposite luck this week, where I had consistent gear in every slot but my weapon, which was 30 ilvls lower. I then got a +30 ilvl upgrade in my weekly cache, and then another upgrade for another +15 ilvls.
Then, my other character, my lowest ilvl piece was my azerite chest armor, and then I did the WQ yesterday which reward an azerite armor cache, and boom, I got an azerite chest piece.
Of course it’s bad . Doesn’t matter how many chests I open or get from quests same price drops for me . I have 9 pieces of help with same traits and 5 pieces of chest with same traits .
I hunter got 3 cloaks in a row, in the same day, in the same hour. (warfront box, zone quest box, invasion box) Needless to say I was impressed upon the dedication the system had to making sure my back was warm.
I always found that the vender on the Spaceship “lightbulb goat” was always the best mix of vender and RNG. It allowed us to target low slots and I think that is what we would like now. We want the ability to target low slots for upgrades back.
If they wish they, could just make drops like a armor token that we could turn in for a random in the item slot we need.
Dude I was pet battling for 8 hours this weekend and didn’t get one piece of gear!