You need a dadgum doctorate’s degree to understand it. If you have to look at a table like some kind of job, it’s too complicated. This isn’t Eve online.
There’s like 82 different kinds of crests. So that plus the valorstones is 83 different currencies JUST to upgrade your tww gear with.
It’s quite nice. It gives people a way to improve their characters and do content. The lower the gear is, the easier it is to upgrade. Like someone else said, you can get multiple mogs this way from the same piece of gear. Having the option to improve gear where the loot fairy blessed you with extra secondaries is extremely useful. Example: Piece of 613i gear with a lucky secondary leech/avoidance/speed, etc… stat would be mostly useless if you already have a 623i piece. Thankfully you can upgrade that piece to at least 619 and actually use it instead of it being vendor or disenchanted.
Upgrades should be available to any player. They are capped so their shouldnt be restrivive. At this point I do not have time nor the patience to do raids or M+ so my character is pretty much finished until next path. No reason to log on because the upgrades tokens are gated,
That would a normal game not letting you finish because you player it on a lower difficulty setting, Your comment makes no sense. There is no benefit to restriction people. When growth stops happening then people stop playing.
Pretty much this. Do your weekly bullcrud grind, then theres nothing fun to do…because they forgot to make the game fun for anything other than the gear grind.
Mmos worst enemy is letting people realize theres other games to play.
Delves at 11 are hard but you get nothing extra for them.
They hard capped the reward systems basically to artificially extend the length of time gearing up takes…and then allowed the streamers to get around that with exploits.