Dear Diary,
It boggles my mind that they are implementing a bunch of systems which seem to be for the sole purpose of adversely impacting mythic+.
AOE caps
Less overall loot
Lower Ilvl than heroic
Covenant locks(which the lower ilvl in +s makes even worse)
I thought mythic+ was one of their more popular design decisions. Most of the people I know that are still playing are only playing because of mythic+.
I really cant get my head around what Blizzard is thinking with these changes.
They should at least make some rewards for doing over 15s, even if they are only cosmetic. (ik this is kind of unrelated but its what they should be doing to foster that community). Also having either the drop or ilvl reduction nerf would have been annoying but fine. Having both is dumb.
Nerfing the drop rate was bad enough. The ilvl change just does not make sense
Trying to force us to raid is a very stupid idea.
What do you expect given who the lead designer is?
The ilvl of the weekly chest is unchanged, and that’s really all that matters anyway.
The amount of bad changes they’re making for shadowlands is just exhausting at this point. I don’t know what they’re doing and I don’t think they do either
Preach made a good point.
If it helps target loot that we will keep longer, it may turn out to be better.
They listened to the idiot heroic mode raiders. Great…
Did you make the same comment when the same lead dev was part of creating a mythic+ gearing system at all?
Along with all of the emissary, weekly event, and other methods of casual gearing which has made the game as far from raid or die it has ever been?
Let’s be honest. The amount of decent ilvl gear you could get by spamming m+ was very lucrative compared to raiding. This change, even as small as it is, coupled with tier hopefully coming back, might get more people interested in raiding again.
Its to slow down gear acquisition, keep sub numbers going.
Also, less aoe purge helps more classes.
Its an attempt at balance, we will see how it plays out.
If they leave M+ as is, they are forcing raiders to M+. But hey that’s okay right?
Because its toxic trash that needs to go. If these dungeon heroes want a challenge, allow Mythic + and offer no rewards. They can raid if they want progression.
Just to let you know, i have got a +15 weekly chest since the beginning of the season. Your not going to get the best optimized piece every week.
It wasn’t easy to gear compared to Mythic raids. Heroic mode raiding isn’t even as hard as a 15. I don’t care if they drop the loot number, just don’t want gear worse than heroic raiding gives.
I sense a bitter LFR hero.
No, you aren’t. But you will get a piece every week, which is more than many raider can say.
Raids allow many more carries than M+.
Most raiders like to do mythic+ and no one every forced a mythic raider to run a mythic+ thats kind of going backwards.