Occasionally there’ll be a player with only 440 ilvl, sometimes even lower than that, applying for Normal raids or +2’s. My first assumption would be that these are just totally new players who just simply don’t realize how woefully undergeared they are (I’m not sure if even the top guilds in the world could clear Awakened Normal raids with such a low ilvl). However, even this explanation is a little weird because the game tells these players that they aren’t even geared enough for Heroic dungeons or LFR, so wouldn’t it be obvious to them that they’re way too weak for Normal? Do these players realize that they have virtually no chance of getting invited, but apply anyways and hope the leader will misclick and accidentally invite them without noticing? Or are they delusional enough to think that they’ll stumble upon the most generous pug leader ever?
I’m not angry that these people are applying to groups. It’s not like they’re hurting anyone. I’m just curious about what their thought process is
They’re most likely not aware of how much of a jump happened with s4. 440 was massively overgeared for a 2 just a couple weeks ago. Despite what you might think, the vast majority of people who play WoW aren’t eternally online and don’t ever pay attention to patch notes and the finer points of what’s going on.
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for keys at least, it used to be “yeah invite whoever signs up first its a 2 we just need bodies”
if they havent read up on S4 or played SLS4 they’re probably not aware of or dont “get” the key scaling change and awakened raid rotation
They probably could. Liquid managed to clear Mythic vault awakened in the 490s ilvl, and the DPS/HPS checks increase more than 50% going from normal to mythic, on top of the extra mechanics.
In some part this could be due to the game tricking people that gear progression is skill progression. So they just got off their main with top end “skill” and since it was obviously their “skill” they don’t think having low gear will be an issue.
They’ll probably have enough experience to not be a burden and can probably be carried to timed 2. But the rest of the group will need to be skilled with high “skilled” gear.
I think a lot of players probably haven’t seen the dungeon changes yet.
I’m just looking for someone to carry me…
I mean uh, dungeon ilvl increase…yeah 