Dungeons won’t drop as much gear loot as they do now and to get one gear item upgrade you will have to spend weeks farming that one dungeon over and over to get it to drop. And read that the drop rate for gear is like a 5% drop rate in shadowlands and was told that you will even have to farm dungeons for certain mats to build armor from the mats you get in dungeons.
As a casual player who is having a hard enough time as it is in bfa getting 460 plus gear and still rocking a crap ton of 445 gear, it scares me how they will make it so hard to get geared decently to be able to stand your own in shadowlands. I feel like for someone like me or a player like me who isn’t into end game raiding and spending weeks to farm one piece of gear that may never drop or farming mats that will be nearly impossible to get and requires you to be a top tier player, it will be a nightmare. Why does it seem like every expansion blizzard does just makes this game less casual player friendly and less friendly for normal players and why does it seem like with every expansion they just make the game worse and worse?
The wod, legion, bfa pathfinding, I felt so overwhelmed when I finally got bfa flying unlocked that I didn’t touch the game for weeks because I was so burnt out and overwhelmed from it. And now the corruption gear, as if I didn’t have a hard enough time as it is now with gettign decent gear, they add in corruption gear that makes it so much harder.
I came from vanilla and went all the way to Cata and stopped when panda came out. Just got back into it not long ago and I feel like they have just made the game so much harder and more difficult and that every minute I spend ont he game is a huge grind to do just anything. I need certain currency for certain gear things and need to do this and that in order to just do a dungeon or need to spend months doing quest line after quest line just to be able to get into a certain area. it is getting crazy and now I read they are making gear drops less frequent in shadowlands and are going to make you have to build your own gear. WTF blizz.
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“I was told” and “I heard” sounds like “I could have done a quick search on WoWHead or Google, but immediately believed what I heard and got angry”.
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All that text, not one link to your source. Not even a reddit page or something. Just “I read somewhere.”
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Either you are completely making this up for outrage attention. or whoever told you this is full of bull.
literally nothing about anything you have said even vaguely resembles any of the concrete information we have about the expansion.
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Or how about you read the article the blizz people put out about the gear drops.
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I’m not sure how much it’s changing but yes, loot drops overall are getting nerfed.
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Ion even said in his interview that gear will be harder to obtain!
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How about you link this article?
Plus so what if they do lower drop rate? Gear rains from the skies in BFA, to the point that players complain there’s so much and they have to keep it all because they never know when they’ll need it.
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How about stop being lazy and just google like I did.
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Kinda wonder what bonus rolls will give now that AP isn’t going to be a thing.
I think this is the interview being mentioned.
It would be nice to get gear that’s actually helpful! But of course, they don’t want play time to go down, so they make it take longer to get that helpful gear.
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I seriously don’t know why they are doing that. I bought shadowlands and will give it a try though but if it really is going to be that hard to get gear then I will just give up on wow altogether and never play the game anymore. Even though I do love the game and the freedom of it.
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Because it’s too much. Loot has hardly any value because there is way too much of it.
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They didn’t say loot would drop less or be harder. Only that they will no longer have the many different arNG systems that existed. No warforge, no titanforge, no corruption. Etc
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No, they most certainly did lol.
He pretty much just says "No plans on Warforging or Titanforging, but just reduce the amount of loot. Just let loot be loot. Still plan on Avoidance. Undecided on Sockets yet."
Its mostly in reference to the titanforge stuff. At this stage I doubt anything % wise is finalized so testers will need to express opinions as per usual.
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In the same article it says if you do more than the bare minimum, you’ll have more choices at the end of the week. Which quite frankly is how it should be.
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You made the claim, burden of proof is on you. Thankfully, someone else stepped in and helped. Wall of angry text will result in the replies you’re getting. Calm down, or expect the hostility to be returned 
Also, we have no idea how bad it’ll ACTUALLY be, just that it’s lowered comparatively. Which is hardly a bad thing, as already stated in this thread. Gear will have meaning as opposed immediately being scrapped/DE’d/vendored, or worse, joining your ever growing pile of loot because God knows what you’ll need next based on their flighty tuning.
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