The ring can’t be socketed and has no stats, the gems available this week include a healing gem. The sims say I’d lose 50k dps using the best combo of gems available to me right now.
Why is this so weak?
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Over correction from Forbidden Reach, the good news is… alts?
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They’ve never ever been good at with timegating content, especially when its timegating things like player power.
Why they thought this would be any different… Beyond me.
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It’ll still probably be pretty good for me though. I’m not complaining about it that’s for sure.
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Without all possible gems available, it’s not necessarily weak so much as temporarily gimped.
I foresee they make all gems available by Friday, because this feature cannot be ill received.
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Being unable to add 2 sockets is just stupid. Like even if you stack the 3 secondary stat gems you will have less overall secondary stats than a ring of the same ilvl with 2 added sockets. Who designs this stuff and doesn’t immediately realize that is terrible design?
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Wouldn’t mind the ability to hide it from my character’s hand. I glamour away the jewelry on FFXIV for a reason.
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At this point, Im entirely convinced they have 2 entirely separate teams working on expansions… and right now we have the same team that developed Shadowlands.
Its got their handprints and mentality all over its design.
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Sigh… another time gated patch for literally no reason.
Siren isles isn’t really worth touching until weeks 3-4. I dont understand why blizzard does this BS.
Just let ppl play! Nobody likes waiting 4+ weeks for the new content to be worthwhile. Stupid.
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honestly the worst part is this was supposed to be a “content update” yet its heavily time gated.
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Maybe at this stage it not for the 648 crowd, but more the 615 crowd.
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Having the ilvl changed to be not terrible is directly contradicted by making the citrines that actually make it useable, unavailable. Truly a baffling design decision.
It’s not like we even know if they’ll be available next week. This thing might be sitting in our bags for weeks.
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Did some simming, once the other gems unlock it becomes a dps upgrade, until then at least this week with the gems available it’s doo doo.
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Didn’t this same thing happen in DF?
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yup. that ring was awful on launch. they buffed it so we had to use it. then they were shocked the following season when everyone was still using it, so they had to nerf it back down.
i expect the same this time and have been saying so for weeks!
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Gems were purchasable from currency you got in Zskera vaults. There was some RNG to which stone you got but it was only limited by players’ efforts in the vaults.
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Just checked and using a 619 crafted ring is 40k DPS higher than using the ring with the best currently available gems
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not that i doubt it, but are we sure the sims have been updated for this thing?
Yeah once the other gems open up, the one that gives straight up mastery + all other gems increased based on mastery, and the one that has a chance to cast a random gem effect it will be worth it to use. Just annoying that they gave us the doo doo gems first.
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I have bad rings for my ilevel (632) and this won’t replace the champion right I got in a raid. Will this be an upgrade? I guess some theorycrafter will have fun figuring out what ilevel you’d need to have for this to be an upgrade…
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