There isnt a lot here. I have done the cloak on 3 toons so far. Started running keys, +5 to 9ish right now. Started doing Normal Raid. The assaults and daily quests are meh. Running mythics is just getting the same gear that I have gotten from expansion launch for the fourth time. The raid is fun from what I have seen so far. Corruption gear lottery is not fun nor motivating.
I would level all my alts, but the opening quest, plus cloak grinds, plus essence grinds, plus azerite trait lottery, on all toons doesnt appeal to me. In addition, getting a badass corruption on an alt doesnt feel good, as now your alt can outperform your main DPS wise.
I think also the class design is getting to me. The specs and their performance tied to essence grinds, and azerite lottery, and now corruption lottery just doesnt feel good. And EVERYTHING is rented power. It all goes in the toilet. No new talents, Spells, abilities.
With everything being either a grind or RNG, and then going away as soon as the next expac launches, I am just not feeling the desire to really do any of it. And as M+ are concerned, It is running the Same dungeons, for the same gear, for the 4th time.
For a final patch this is going to go down as one of the worst to be frank.
Not sure what they are thinking by punishing people that want to play alts in an expansion they clearly have abandoned quickly. They have abandoned this expansion quickly because there is no patch 8.3.5.
Here I am thinking the complete opposite. It’s not really because of 8.3 though to be fair. There isn’t that much in the patch but I have to say what is there is excellent.
You guys really need to move on from this alt unfriendly stuff though.
No clue how this keeps getting brought up when legion was way worse in every way.
Just be happy everything isn’t spec specific any more.
I wasn’t a fan of having to get exalted on all my characters for the new essences but now it’s fine to be honest,
Revered is the requirement now for a lot of R3 essences and it’s much easier to get to because of the intro quests/other quests that give you a fair bit of reputation to just do them.
Already R3 on this and my DH so can take it easy on them and focus on alts fairly comfortably.
How do you have no clue why people talk about this? End legion was very alt friendly, end BFA somehow made an alt unfriendly expansion worse.
Not a very difficult concept.
Agreed. If someone can loot BOE bracers with stars off trash and do more damage than someone clearing Nzoth there’s a serious problem with corruption balacing. I don’t see any reason to clear heroic right now- why wipe when I am just likely to get an upgrade farting around normal or even raid finder or even killing some blue world quest?
I’m hoping that Tuesdays nerf will start something that will make us less dependant on corruption effects. I’d love to be on par with other people of similar item level without something like that doing half the work for you, and this is from someone who was lucky enough to get an ev week 1 that does 20 percent of my damage.
I don’t mind the way seasons work and coincide with raid tiers, and have been enjoying this season, currently in the 10-12 range, progressing as the weeks go by (fairly casual guild)
The raid has been fun so far, we’re on vex in normal right now, but we skipped last week because of super bowl and have only done a few hours the first week. Hoping to hop in heroic here soon. Xanesh has been my favorite fight even though I was a little worried my group would struggle with it because of mechanics but we one shot it.
Visions have been incredibly fun. I’ve got rank 9 on 4 of my characters and the rest of my alts I have parked between 4 and 5.
I don’t want to disagree with you, op, because I can understand some of your frustrations. I was originally wanting to hit this patch hot and heavy but now I’m not so worried about keeping it casual. I think it’ll be better that way.
Yeah essences completely borked alts and rerolling. I mean if you wanted to reroll or just have a good alt for nzoth raid and you started prepping during EP you could have grinded it out in time, but for me the idea of trying to reroll from my main now is just not happening. If I get back into raiding before shadowlands it will for sure be on my warrior.
In legion AP allowed you to reasonably catch up and then Relic optimization was nice but not really crazy important. You could go grind some decent ones out quickly. And honestly if essences were account wide in that if you had the rank below for all alts I think thatd be acceptable for most people. Regrinding it all out is cancer.
Maybe the game is not for you. It looks like you play too much. Have a rest.
Unlike me, I am enjoying 8.3. I just started wearing high level Corruptions. I love seeing mobs melt.
Your lowbie alt outdps’ing your main means you have to play more on your main. There is chance this could happen if the alt and main is close in ilevel gear. But it is rare.
The common guidance given for priests is to play the visions as shadow, for dps. And set loot to holy.
But…it’s not like corruption drops to enhance heals. Most procs are based off you hitting things or things hitting you.
Generally the 2 things healers should not be seeing too much. If your healer is taking punches…someone needs to wake the tank up. Or kick the hunter who is misdirecting to them lol.
And while more dps is usually a good thing…healers don’t go in going awww yeah, shooting for top 5 dps y’all.
You can get the naz/mech essences with under 3 weeks of daily farming. And that’s skipping some things. They’ve made it this expansion where gearing isn’t the hard part of the process, which is a bit weird but in reality makes it about much more alt friendly than the game has ever been considering good gear comes from literally everywhere. You can literally gear an alt out with a months worth of work. I don’t recall doing that in vanilla, bc, wrath, cata, or mop. I didnt play in legion or wod, but in every other expansion I don’t remember the last time I could consider having every class reasonably geared by the end of the expansion.
No, just not lazy. Dailies don’t bother me, especially as easy as these are.
Do you not remember running a raid every week and MAYBE getting a drop? I do. Nowadays I’m getting several drops a week, and have gotten a lot of upgrades.
If you think this is bad, you’re in the wrong genre.
Is this the first time you’ve replied back to one of my comments because I don’t think i hide the fact I’ve done the grind on four separate characters with BIS essences, how many do you have?