The problem with azerite gear is it puts your talent tree in loot crates.
The solution they offered with titan and the ridiculous price, you’re forced to buy the loot crates.
That specific gear is offered shows they do understand what the problem is. But a real solution, nope.
It just a new carrot like everything since wotlk. I have come to terms and just stop logging in. It’s sad to see what it has become and could care less how it turns out anymore.
What you do is you buy random only. First you may get Bis anyhow and most importantly if a trait is nerfed or buffed, you aren’t locked in as easily.
You wanna min-max? Put in the work to min-max. Put in the time to get what specific piece or pieces you want. No, it’s not fun. Min-maxing your stats never is fun, but it’s an option for those wanting a very specific slew of traits from very specific pieces of gear.
The high cost is there specifically so people can’t just specifically buy what power and what traits they want, because you want to know what happens afterwards? People will complain that there’s nothing to chase. That they’ll have all the gear they can want. Some of those people have probably read through this thread already. Some might have already left a reply.
If you feel the need to push yourself to the point where you need to maximize your DPS gains, fine! Power to ya. Don’t complain though when you realize the path you need to walk to achieve Optimal DPS.
It is supposed to be.
I bought a 385 piece, when we were still getting lots of residium from World Quest drops (before the nerf.)
It was replaced by a 390 in a day or something. “Hmmm… guess I don’t do that again…”
The only point of it EVER was really for that person targeting a “certain” raid drop. So there is an impossible amount of residium to do that.
I think you’d be very silly to do it otherwise, since the next level of titan residium “random” armor has pretty much been keeping pace with gear I can already get just soloing. I can and do get 400’s, with 400 becoming something I could reasonably buy (but why would I?) 415 random pieces would be just out of my reach, but I’ll probably start getting near that in 8.2.
It was meant to be a “desperation” thing, for that particular piece. So 10 weeks is probably about right.
Then there was the guy, who posted on these forums, about dropping 3700 on two chest pieces hoping to get what he wanted randomly; He did not, of course.
There’s no min-maxing here though. You can’t get the AA from doing m+ runs. So you have to either grind almost a years worth of wq’s or run lfr/any raid to scrap AA for the currency to buy the armor that should drop from m+. If the loot from raid was better, which it should be, you wouldn’t need the vendor.
The grind to get the best itemized stats for your specific spec, is as old as WoW itself. There’s nothing wrong with having to run dungeons over and over to try and get the best gear you can. However, when you cannot obtain that gear through anything other than a vendor, and the price is so bad that you wouldn’t be able to get all 3 pieces (without praying to RNGesus) before the next tier comes out is not just a horrible design, it’s pathetically lazy. Which has been the case for this expansion from the beginning.
Specific pieces are a trap, just save your residuum. You get one 415 piece from mythic champs and then spend maybe a month of residuum to get the pieces you need and you’re more than likely gonna hit and then save up the rest ez
That’s where you are wrong. They have stated this is just a bad luck protection system. So if you are not getting what you want for a long time, you can still eventually get something you like.
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However, going from 1725 residuum for a random 415 piece to 7150 for a specific piece seems like a pretty ridiculous jump.
I think there are what, 6 pieces of azerite per slot? The odds of you getting a BIS from a random one would be 1/6, which means the 7150 is actually cheaper than trying your luck with randomly overall, though it takes longer.
Since azerite armor doesn’t drop in m+ runs (which makes no sense whatsoever) if you were to only get pieces from doing world quests, it would take you almost 600 world quests.
Sorry, but this entire argument is just dumb. The vendor is a M+ vendor, you are not meant to be able to buy the 415 pieces by doing WQs.
Even with the 700+ residuum you get from doing a +15 every week, that’s over 10 weeks before you can buy a specific armor piece.
Higher keys rewards more residuum, I think it doesn’t cap out until about 20? I could be wrong.
Or, allow TR to be scrapped from all BFA armor.
They just did with the latest patch, much to my distaste. The WQ AA are now 370 and epic, which means you can get residuum from them.
Ok, but again, Blizzard’s thoughts on m+ was “you don’t have to raid to get gear” so by saying you need to do any raid, let alone a mythic boss, completely defeats their intent. And, you’re saying it’s perfectly ok to wait a month for a chance at rolling the best piece. At least in raid, i can try and coin the piece of armor I want. you cannot coin AA in m+ so the only way is through this garbage currency system.
So if it’s an M+ vendor, how are you getting residuum from running m+ dungeons to purchase the AA that doesn’t drop from m+ runs?
Which I said at the top of the post.
It’s not as simple nor can it be as simple as not having to raid to get gear. You can, but doing all types of content is always gonna be the best and fastest way to get gear.
So if it’s an M+ vendor, how are you getting residuum from running m+ dungeons to purchase the AA that doesn’t drop from m+ runs?
You get it from your weekly chest? You do remember why Blizzard went to this system? AA used to drop out of your weekly chest, which people complained that it was too RNG, because some were not getting them. Blizzard changed over to the residuum system to ensure that you are guaranteed a piece, though which piece you get is still RNG.
Which I said at the top of the post.
I know, my point is that they did make most of the azerite gear drop residuum, even those that shouldn’t.
I checked the upgrade finder in AMR and it shows that just choosing a random token will more than likely give me an upgrade, but that upgrade could range from a 0.2% upgrade to a 0.8% upgrade.