When 80% of my gear is 376 greens, and I get repeats in same slots over and over, it’s very rigged.
I get I only do 1 vault slot a week per character(on 20+ characters), but this is happening on most toons.
Today this DH opened and I had tier legs in my 1 slot. 1 of the few good slots I already had filled with tier legs. They weren’t even higher ilvl.
Think it finally broke me after vault opening today, that I am done chasing the loot on alts through vaults. I’d rather just spend my time doing something else besides WoW/M+
I treat the vault like a stinky little present left on my doorstep by a stranger. I don’t know what it is, I’ll open it when I’m ready, but if it’s something gross, that’s what happens when I open stinky little presents.
I feel you. I stopped doing M+ on alts for the same reason. I have a 415 suffused cloak and all the rest is BS gear and I get a cloak from the vault? come on dude, makes me not want to play.
there is a point where making players suffer for retention becomes not worth it and I think bliz has passed that point, hence the player loss.
Too much investment into a low chance for reward, imo. You’re better off running more on a single character or 2. Worst case scenario, you can turn the tokens into crests, sockets, or half of the crafting item
I’m 443 and I am using a crappy 437 trinket because the good trinkets are only in raids. I do normal, lfr and heroic every week to try and get them and they never drop. For the last 5 or 6 weeks I’ve been getting capes, belts or gloves on every single slot. 0 trinkets. M+ has only 1 trinket for healers and I have that after doing about 70 VP’s. This is a bloody joke, surely they can implement a variable to give you an item based on the lowest item of your gear? I might not get the trinket that I want but it will still be an upgrade. Or maybe add more trinkets to the game?
why are you guys trashing vault lol its free loot for playing. As a healer i got my heroic rashok trinket from vault and for that i will always be greatful.
It just is disappointing when you could get a literal tier piece, instead get something like bracers or a crap trinket lol.
You’re always just thinking about what you could have gotten instead, the best possible items, and that ruins the system a bit.
(Speaking of, my vault had bracers in it. I’m pretty disappointed, lmao.)
I just hit 70 on this character a few days ago and got my honor set and crafted pieces, so naturally I couldn’t do rated yet, to get more vault slots, just had that one.
I imagine that you’d have a lot more vault options as well, as well as better-geared characters, if you focused on one or two at a time. This isn’t a vault problem…
If that’s all you think about then every drop you get that’s not bis must be disappointing. All of PvE would be miserable unless you have amazing luck.
Yeah the vault has been trash this tier.
The first week was pretty good, after that, I’ve taken tokens the last 3 weeks on this guy.
My alts all did full clears this week, none of them got drops and the vaults were trash on all of them.
Back on the shelf they go, it takes roughly 2 hours (3 or 4 if you count wait times to get in) to full clear on a character, it’s just not worth the time spent.
I have better things I could be doing with my time than wasting 9 hours per week running LFR on my alts, so I’ll continue to clear it to get another trinket or tokens for this guy, but that’s as far as it goes.
Lol I mostly just PvP, and since this is a newer alt, I’m stuck playing catch-up with the folks who never made new characters.
Pretty much every vault piece, even undesired ones, are an upgrade for me, so I’ll take them.
But, man, if there was ever a weapon or a chestpiece or pants in there, I’d be absolutely elated- it would save me a lot of grinding otherwise.
And that’s ultimately what the vault is for- bad luck protection of sorts, just another chance to get something if you don’t get it otherwise.
My other characters don’t even need to use vault anymore, they just collect their weekly currency for those free gem slots on other gear, and after you’ve got all of that, vault becomes completely useless. (You’re BiS in PvP, which isn’t nearly as hard as PvE. You can get there probably within two weeks of nonstop PvP grinding. There is a definite endpoint, unlike PvE which keeps shifting.)
