The M+ nerf is good and raiding should always offer the best gear

[Drathiel-gilneas]

@Monori-bleeding-hollow

It shouldn’t change how you approach them though outside of annyoning stuff that you have to do los crap with.

But it actually does change how you approach things. There really are several factors that change drastically in the difference between even +15s to +20s, let alone +15s to +25s or higher. Things that aren’t lethal at +15 become lethal, pulls you can afford to make at +15 become unaffordable/result in failure, etc.

@Monori-bleeding-hollow

20s can’t yield mythic difficulty level gear because they aren’t lockout limited and mythic is.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Go ahead and cap off M+ to a few thresholds below the current progression. For the first two weeks of Heroic, cap off M+ below Heroic gear level. For the first two or three weeks of Mythic, cap off M+ below Mythic gear level.

Just don’t neuter M+ gear progression permanently out of some sort of awkward respect for raiders not wanting to do any more content than they need to do for raiding. I’ll quote it once again:

@Kaivax

The design intent is for all three paths to provide parallel progression over the course of a tier, while providing players who engage in multiple paths at a comparable level a faster advancement experience.

Nowhere in this does it read “you shouldn’t get gear incentives for M+”. It reads “do one form of content if you wish, just be aware that doing more than one form of content might result in a faster pace of gearing”.