At this point in the season in Dragonflight, I generally would have most of my sockets on each of my toons, yet at most, i currently have only 1 socket on most of my toons and none on a few.
With BIS enchants being so expensive, and not really doing anything with professions, most of the gold I’ve had has gone to enchants instead of bloodstones (or whatever they’re called). So I’ve therefore had to use mostly honor to get everything which has been painfully slow.
Like conquest, I feel like there needs to be a catch-up mechanic here at midpoint. I don’t mind a little grind, but I think it’s just tuned way too high right now for those who don’t want to, or can’t shell out 20k gold per socket.
I haven’t done the math but it feels like it takes way more of a stat to grant a 1% increase this xpac and the stats from gems seem so miniscule. Not saying they shouldn’t be cheaper/easier to get but but their impact aside from 1 for meta and 1 for proccing elemental affix seem not worth it to me.
I think it’s in a good spot. We need more things that prevent people from fotm reroll while also still being relatively easy. It’s actually a good balance.
I don’t think people FOTM rerolling is the problem in itself. If it was super hard to reroll and gear up a new toon, people would more likely just stop playing, which is worse. The problem is allowing certain specs to be crazy outliers for too long (like feral right now for example).
Letting people level, and optimally gear pretty fast gives the game much more replay value (when you get bored of playing a certain class), and keeps the ladder moving upward.
I decided to see what the rage was all about with these sockets and spent big money on it, I have 3k gold to my name right now. They haven’t made a difference at all and I will not bother with them for my alts
Gone are the days of MOP gem socketing. Perhaps for the best.
Even enchants are kinda meh. I would only bother with rank 3 speeds and the weapon. Everything else gets cheapskated.
I sell all of my Vicious Bloodstones. I’m Bezos rich now. I only play one char, and I still won’t socket my gear. Sell them, build equity and make dope mogs (like me).
The gem cost is fine, I actually really like it as it adds extended progression and a gold income for pvpers as well, however minor.
HOWEVER, that being said, precog needs to be removed from gems and made baseline. OR, if theyre deadset on such important things being on gems, they need to add a quest for a free or greatly reduced price first socket per character.
A 639 chest has 2024 secondary stats. A 424 chest has 792 secondary stats. 1% critical strike went from 180 rating required at 70 to 700 rating required at 80. So compared to dragonflight season 1, stats budget on an item went up by 2.55x but stats required for 1% went up 3.88x.
