I have lived real life for a good while longer than you have (guessing by your comment here). I know what really counts. I do what makes me happy–which doesn’t have anything to do with what makes you happy.
Though, I confess, now there’s a part of me that wants to get as much titanforged crap as I can just to tick you off. I don’t raid, and I’m proud of it. Stew on that for a while.
Game is designed for competition now, not typical MMORPG style gameplay. If you don’t do competitive content then you basically get peanuts in terms of dev effort. This is why so many are leaving for ESO/FF. WoW is essentially an instanced competitive style game now, you sit and que for things and if you fall behind you’re screwed.
Oh, yeah. Forgot to mention I have plenty of friends who raid, so I do kinda know why they do it. And they really only care about gear in that it lets them move on to a tougher raid. They don’t give a rat’s fart what gear I have.
It’s funny that people think it’s thier gear that makes others upset lol. What if I just want a proper gear progression curve for myself? Like if I take 100 wipes on a boss and get a good ring out of it I would like to not have a chance to get a better ring from being afk in a warfront, or world questing for 5 min.
Well, I’m most definitely an adult, and I said it, so you might be wrong about that. too. But I didn’t say I was going to do that, I said a “part” of me felt that way. Because you’re so worried about what I do in game.
Nobody cares what you or anyone else does in this game, at least in this thread. What people do care about is that people are collecting gear on par with heroic and mythic raiding gear for playing the memory card game and shooting birds and crabs.
Titanforging for the item level should have a cap. You shouldn’t be able to get Mythic levels of armor, regardless of how rare, in the open world. However, this is the lowest issue that Titanforging has.
The biggest issue?
SOCKETS.
Sockets should NOT be a chance proc. They should be guaranteed, especially on rings/neck (post Heart of Azeroth) but they should NOT be a chance. Them being an RNG element has made JCing virtually useless and ensures things that are 10+ ilvls lower better than a potential upgrade just because of the extra stats. They need to do away with this entirely.
I can deal with the Titanforging, much as I hate it. Maybe if they capped trinkets at most, I wouldn’t hate it as much. But the sockets? Just put them on pieces again, please. It makes armor a lot more customizable.
Certainly harder content should give better rewards. And it should have a much higher chance at those better rewards. RNG is stupid all around. The problem isn’t titanforging for easy content, it’s how gear is rewarded in the hard content.
Why do you feel as if you are the gate keeper of “meaningful gear” or decide how “earning” of gear is handled? As long as gear is the only form of character progression in WoW people aren’t going to keep playing if they don’t progress doing the content they enjoy. Without us there would be no raids or even WoW, so how about you do your content and I will do mine and realize that we will never cross.