Just to comment on the “working perfectly before” scenario. It did work … most of the time. But I tried to buy a second glaive and Rethelsi took my previously purchased 385 purple one. Leaving me with still only one glaive but out my sigils. This was not “working as intended” so they had to fix it with actual customer service manpower. Which they want to avoid of course … that takes money. They did fix it in a little over a day.
There were plenty of bug reports about it if anyone wants to seek them out.
So the vendor was a little broken. I agree that they should have fixed the vendor not tried to push it over to an upgrade vendor.
Who currently doesn’t work at all for me. (Of course, I find this out AFTER I already spent the profession points to make another piece of gear … but I was going to replace a different piece with the storm gear to keep that 2 set bonus. So I’m stalled. Glad I didn’t already craft the gear. )
I took a chestguard iLvl 359 over to Corxian (on the right side inside of the Gladiator’s refuge)> When I attempted to upgrade it, a message saying “This item can no longer be upgraded” appeared. What gives, Blizzard?
If you bought a item 359 ilvl piece BEFORE the new patch, and were level 70, they will still upgrade.
War Mode and Primal Storms gear are no longer upgraded by trading gear and upgrade currency (Trophies of Strife, Storm Sigils) at the previous vendors (Malicia in the Gladiator’s Refuge and Rethelshi in the Sapphire Enclave). These items now use the other item upgrade vendors that Valor, Honor, and Conquest gear have used, such as Corxian in the Gladiator’s Refuge.
War Mode and Primal Storms gear obtained at level 70 prior to this patch will still be upgradeable. However, War Mode gear obtained pre-level 70, before the patch, will not be upgradeable.
New pre-level 70 gear obtained after the 10.0.5 patch went live will be upgradeable.
Was 70 before patch, bought blue 2 handed weapon on paladin with elemental overflow but needed to wait until reset to get last bit of sigils I need. Got sigils I need but upgrade vendor, Corxian, says "This item can no longer be upgraded "
Same here, its ab8bug. A total bug, so i hope to heck they are fixing it. Because logically(that eludes Blizz) anything above a cape requires 10 sigils to upgrade, so it would have been impossible to upgrade anything above a cloak in ONE week.
I am holding onto my 3 pieces i already have until they fix it.
except the item upgrade vendor is saying the blue items cant be upgraded. It even says right on the piece of gear “upgrade level 1/2” but it will not let me upgrade the blue storm gear.
FWIW I bought bracers today, just to see if I had correctly figured out how the system works now (zero help from the game itself by the way-- I ain’t too bright but it shouldn’t have taken me three days). I was able to upgrade them for 4 sigils, which i can only guess is how much it cost before. But I just can’t believe how much worse the new system is in every possible way.
Here’s my main problem: I’ve got 8 storm sigils and zero need for 359 gear, but 385 would help in several slots. What can I afford to upgrade? Who knows! I won’t find out until after I buy a non-refundable piece with the tiny amount of essence I just spent a couple hours grinding out. Before, I could just talk to Rethelshi and see what I could afford now, or if I had one or two more sigils or 50 more essence. I could make an informed choice, it was all perfectly clear.
And this is my 5th or 6th 70. What’s somebody who just hit 70 for the first time supposed to understand about any of this? The 359 gear just says upgrade level 1/2. Oh and instead of upgrading right there I have to run back and forth between two different buildings now, just for a little extra kick in the teeth.
I’m just mad because I’m frustrated and overcaffeinated, I do understand that none of this is the end of the world, but I’m truly confused at how every single thing about this is worse than before. How does that even happen??
I know you’ve still got the code Blizz, please roll it back. On Monday this system worked fine. On Tuesday it suddenly became 100% pure confusion and irritation for no apparent reason whatsoever. I’m sure the intent was exactly the opposite of that, but they can’t all be winners. (If there was some invisible engineering problem and this was the only possible solution, feel free to drop into the thread and let us know.) Someone took the time to fix something that wasn’t broken, hopefully it will take even less time to un-fix it.
Corxian in the Gladiators refuge let me upgrade the item. it will say it cant be upgraded in the text when you hit the button but that is only because it changes to 385. it will upgrade from blue to purple. i just did it.
There were issues with the Vendor taking Epic weapons over blue Weapons at the vendor, this also allows Blizzard to increase item level with a different item / more sigils for later patches rather then having to bloat a vendor should they so choose.
In the long run this works out better but there are defiantly things they can change to make it easier
I figured it out. You still have to buy the base piece back at the same place next to raleshi. You just can’t buy the final piece anymore. A strange change that doesn’t seem like it was needed unless they plan to offer more upgrades and didn’t want to keep restocking the vendor each season.
I thought the change was that we could upgrade other gear to storm gear now, but it’s still the same system, just divided over two locations now.
I agree after several days I finally found the new location as well but what they did do is now the gear says 1/2 when blue and 2/2 when purple. You no longer can see what the 2/2 upgrade percentage is any more like you can while its blue verse gear your already wearing.
So now if your current gear is less than 385 but higher than 359, you’re up the creek without the paddle. You could also now buy the wrong piece since they do offer several cloaks and weapons that might not be an upgrade over the correct piece you should purchase. For me the biggest OCD is the 1/2 and 2/2 on new purchases but gear purchased before that don’t have that information.
you dont trade them in to that NPC anymore. Now you have to go into the PVP Gladiators Refuge, hes standing against the back wall, GLOWING, and it says “item upgrades” you click on him, select the blue gear, and click the upgrade button. There WAS A GLITCH that was preventing them from being upgraded for a few days, it has since been fixed.
It would be great if Blizzard had Rethelshi notify the player to speak with the NPC in the PVP area. I didn’t catch the change if it was in the patch notes, and it’s frustrating to have to search around outside the game for an answer.