I have always felt that sandworn gear should be ilvl 252. Especially if it’s being used as a catch up gear. And they cost a lot of relics for the drop rate. I won’t use them except for transmog later. But I can imagine someone trying to catch up or feel viable and drop ilvls just to do so.
Reminder if you don’t have any tier yet it’s simply a better use of your money to unsubscribe from the game for a month and wait because after 4 weeks you will be able to craft your entire set at once so there’s zero insentives to keep you playing right now wasting a month of sub just because Blizzard added another time gate system no one asked for on a system that should have been released weeks ago.
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Cool, it’s only about a month late.
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Exactly. I never pay through time gates. I have more fun playing other games. If these system finally releases without the tome gates I might check it out but I’m not paying money like sheep to them. 6 months subs only save money if you play all 6 months. Skipping 2 months a year saves more money and frustration over time gates.
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blizzard is going to be screwing a lot of players day one.
Give us 4 charges this tuesday i have yet to get any tier in my vault on 3 toons
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Just when I thought Blizzard was finally “getting it”… they do this BS timegate crap again after we have been grinding since 9.2 came out. So tired… so very very tired.
Level 6?? My 252 Cypher gear has no level, and I’ve never upgraded any of it. I just got higher ilevel pieces to replace lower ones.
Any chance you guys can just remove the cooldown on the catalyst, feels horrible for people who have been screwed by the not so great vault.
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Can we add a tutorial like thing to not cause people to waste it on non tier gear expecting tier bonus on bracers
This. 100% this. PLEASE.
The ‘have nots’ have been screwed in an absurdly big way for long enough this season as is.
This system has been the same mistake you guys made in Legion with the acquisition of important legendaries early on, which you eventually remedied with a vendor. You’ve already repeated the same mistake with this season’s tier gear; PLEASE do not go ahead with doubling down on it by also timegating the Catalyst’s charges (which was already a brutally timegated release to begin with).
The power gaps afforded by these tier bonuses are way too big for there to be people that don’t have them while others do, especially when RNG is the key factor in acquisition.
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SSL certs have nothing to do with the expansion release date… SSL certs are only valid for 13 months. Everywhere. On the entire internet. You have to renew every year.
The real question is why Blizz quietly changed how the Catalyst recharges and thinks no one will notice 
“Catalyst charges will start relatively rare (1/week) then accelerate in acquisition rate as the patch moves towards the future. These values will gradually accelerate over time, to the point where eventually you will be earning a charge every other day”
What did they change RE this?
With season 4 being a thing, do you at all see 10.0 this year? Remember they can’t have sunwell/tbcc season 4 last too long which puts extra pressure on releasing wrath. And they also can’t have product cannablization (have to space out 10.0 and wrath classic launches).
It’s Christmas for everyone! Doesn’t mean you won’t get coal in your stocking or what you didn’t want.
The mentality of someone not taking a quarter because it’s taxed and you only get 20cents leaves me questioning how or why? Something good and fruitful is better than nothing?
I think the catalyst option is a generous enhancement. What I don’t like is the idea of is regur’d content just to pacify me. It’s a bunch of crap. If I get all the tier sets etc before the patch I will just unsub until the next expansion. No biggie.
To me the game seems like it has given and enhanced so much over the years.
Raiding tiers were not a gimme with master loot and no lfr you could only get them from raiding after all they were raiding tier sets. Some never saw them at all.
Aren’t the gearing options in place now and can be fitting with some tweaks?
Raiding tier - bonus only works in raids
Mythic+ - rewards high level gear. Maybe add mythic + tier sets just for mythic 5 or higher?
World Tier - ZM gear for those world questers the bonuses apply only then. A raid or mythic tier set bonus won’t give you the perk of moving faster in the zone…
Other than Item level tier bonuses can work specific to the content?
Belt isn’t a tier set. The only reason you would use it on something other than a helm, shoulder, glove, pants or chest piece is to just change the stats on it.
This would have been great news to have 2 months ago.
Before people started leaving because no Tear sets dropped.
Bring the player not the class is dead.
Bring the class, not the player is dead.
Bring the RNG, not the player… that’s where it’s at!
Just imagine how much better the game would have been if systems hadn’t existed to stop people from playing it based entirely at random.
This seems, to me at least, just repeating the Legiondary problems from 7.0 for 2 months, for no reason, then adding in a timegated fix.
Don’t tell me that.
Blizz calls it tier.
Yes… the helm is tier. I said the belt is not.
It’s talking about all the pieces, they named all of them tier.