So the new azerite gear is going to be coming with an additional outer ring. Incase you didnt know… this ring IS NOT ADDED TO THE EXISTING GEAR YOU HAVE … Which means after weeks of farming RNG to finally get your BIS gear you need to do it ALL OVER AGAIN to acquire the same gear but now with the additional azerite ring.
Is anyone else not outraged by this?!
We’ve known this for months…
Beat me to it.
You are implying you aren’t? But…you used all caps…and bold, too…
at this point.
I knew, just didn’t care.
If you’ve been a good boi and farmed out your residuum like me you can buy a couple 400 pieces next week.
Failure to research a topic should not constitute outrage. When the original post was made about this months ago, you should have left your feedback then.
I don’t mind at all though, no. Getting gear is a part of the game and getting such extended power this early in the expansion is only a good thing in my eyes.
I don’t plan on wearing the gear I have for long anyway so not really anything to be upset about.
Why would you want it added to the existing gear?
The whole point of the second season/raid tier is to better higher ilvl gear.
Better is having a 5th ring!
Agree with this. It’s no different than getting a new tier set from the next raid. Only thing people can be outraged at imo is it’s the same boring traits on the new gear. For Prot Paladin there is literally nothing new to look forward to in terms of traits.
No, and imma break down why.
You are ignoring half of the changes. First off, the maximum ilvl is also increasing, so your statement of–
Is already invalid. As with every new major content patch that introduces a new tier of content, ilvl’s go up. So you are already going to have to change your BiS gear. Blizzard held back on releasing the new outer ring gear UNTIL that ilvl increase happened to reduce the amount of farming since you would already be re-farming gear.
The argument holds no water, this is literally what Blizzard and all MMO’s have been doing for years. New content releases, old gear becomes obsolete.
Not to mention, with the new outer ring, your old BiS gear choices may no longer be BiS for you and the Meta for your class and spec might have changed.
Because if the item is the exact same name and same item it should be …THE SAME
Of course the S2 gear would be higher Ilv but the core perks of the armor should not change.
This is just another carrot on a stick.
Well, that is not surprising at all lol. I do not expect to see my gear get an free upgrade just because I got it before they changed the system.
This is only valid if they created new armor with new names to have these new rings on but they aren’t. They are using the existing sets…
You have now nailed the entirety of every upcoming season perk or feature, from this point forward to eternity. Given this revelation, you should no longer be outraged about anything.
That’s…the idea. You farm gear. It becomes obsolete. You farm new gear. The cycle continues.
It’s too bad gear becomes obsolete so fast but that’s BFA current game plan.
Gear becomes obsolete and you replace it with different gear… not THE SAME GEAR.
But its not the same gear. Maybe it looks the same and has the same name, but the gear you have equipped isn’t going up in ilevel. Its technically a new piece [of the same gear] that you’re equipping with new traits.
Dude. You won’t be going back to Uldir to farm the same gear.
You’ll be getting a 5th ring on NEW gear, of higher level, in a new raid. Jeez.
And if you meant M+, then I don’t see the issue. It won’t be the same gear, it will be higher level with more traits, so it’s not the same.
Welcome to Beta for Azeroth. New gear IS same gear. We don’t have class specific sets. It’s like the Legion developers trashed the game design code before being fired due to budget constraints and they hired a bunch of finance specialists to try to recover it.