So they took us from having one universal upgrade currency and upgradable gear into having both a currency and a bunch of bag filling crests/other bullcrap and different gear upgrade tiers that is extremely unintuitive I spent 10 minutes reading a wowhead article about this new system and I still feel like I barely understand it.
Why are they so adverse to making things simple and PUTTING EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CURRENCY IN THE CURRENCY TAB INSTEAD OF MY BAGS?
I don’t need to. I am sick of new currencies and crap taking my bag space every single time. And after I take great pains to empty one 32 slot bag. It just piles over man.
It can be a little convoluted at times, and they have been dumping a bit of stuff into our bags.
Get gear upgrade it by reading what the crest in your bag says it can upgrade. It’s not that hard and you didn’t need Wowhead.
I agree that the crests and their fragments going into precious bag space is undesirable.
I mean can I/other players eventually understand the system? Sure but in my options the tool tips are still awful. The tier names of the gear do not help you understand the upper item level limit of the gear at all and then there’s even more crests and stuff I have to worry about when it comes to crafted gear.
Regardless of if the system is easy for you to understand or not I see zero reason that they couldn’t have done something like make 2-3 universal currencies and then that currency upgrades that type of gear.
This is a fair point… I mostly ignore all the new names for tiers of gear and just look at it’s item-level and it’s current rank (e.g., 1/8 or 4/8). I know it can only go to 8/8 and if it’s less than half-way there but not a great item-level for me, I won’t be spending any Crests or Flightstones on it. Every rank is 3 item levels, which seems pretty easy to figure out the upper limit on an item.
In 10.0 you need a spark to make gear and a primal infusion to upgrade it. In 10.1 you need a new spark to make gear from scratch and to upgrade crafted gear you need the exact same crests you use to upgrade all other gear, although for crafted gear they have to be enchanted by an enchanter. That step didn’t seem necessary, but I guess enchanters were under-represented in the economy and this is Blizz throwing them a bone.
This silly has gone on ever since the shipyard didn’t use Garrison Resources. Why does Broken Shore use different resources than my order hall?
Bag space for all the junk is my biggest issue with it.
Yeah really I think this is my biggest complaint about it.
If this was the same system used since the beginning of the game. That is a bit more understandable because the precedent has been there since the beginning and people have had plenty of experience with the system. But blizzard literally changes fundamental gearing systems entirely every single patch at this point.
It’s really dumb to have to learn an entirely new system every patch. This is the exact thing we told them we didn’t want when they did that stuff in Shadowlands too.
I’m still confused on what to do with welpstones.
I got 3 of em and it isn’t clear what to do with em.
I have the biggest slot bags and have some stuff from Shadowlands I have yet to take care of as I still wanting to finish Zereth Mortis stuff
And I have several pieces of m+ gear from last season just sitting in my bag, some green gear that I just never happen to sell things
I also have gnomergan stuff where you turn in these grime items to cleanse them for items, cause I’m looking for the punch card to complete my set there
Along with mats I farm in Dragonflight
I still have 1 full bag remaining and the item materials bag is half full
How are you running out of bag space??
I have no idea how you are managing to have space then because I also have 34 slot bags and my bags are always full like every few days and then I have to sift through everything and my bank is absolutely full of stuff im still trying to manage and decide what I dont need.
But my bags/bank were also full of mostly shadowlands stuff and now all this gear and stuff from dragonflight
The currency issue aside:
What is this constant complaining en masse about bag space, i mean: Most of the voices have to be ignorant or uneducated right?
(Ignore my extra 8 slots from being a Vulpera.)
I have 4 (34 slot? Maybe 32 slot and a papas bag at 34 slot) and my backpack (which has 4 or 8 extra slots for the mobile authentication. (Which i am pretty sure is mandatory now, if not, Just get the MFA. Its 2023, you should have it on everything when possible.
I have 32 slot reagent bag.
The formerly mentioned i am pretty sure the vast majority have.
My bank has all slots available and fitted wkth 32 slot bags. I also have my reagent tab unlocked.
I also use my vendor mount religiously.
Finally: Void storage is a great mechanic as well.
I can’t even get the upgrade system to work. It acts like it’s going to upgrade stuff but then when you look at the item it didn’t upgrade. Through lots of clicks I managed to get one item to go up one level. It’s not a currency issue as I have the currency and the button is highlighted/clickable. I’ve relogged and restarted the game multiple times.
They have to be in your personal bag when you upgrade for some reason. I had the same problem so I went to the bank and got them out of the crafting storage. It’s going to be an ongoing annoyance unless they change this.