Shadows:
Emissaries give 385 ilvl gear. So does capping Conquest through Incursions and random BGs. Darkshore Warfront gives 400ilvl gear. So does Darkshore Ivus.
I haven’t done a single normal mode or higher raid, mythic dungeon, or rated PVP match, yet I’m still at 393ilvl.
If you aren’t a mythic raider or high rated PVPer, why bother?
I had the same thoughts and posted a thread last week that had a lot of people echoing that. It’s disappointing when you want to keep playing but have no real incentives to do fun content.
All it does it ensure that the content most casuals enjoy doing is very quickly not worth doing. LFR, Heroics, Unrated BG/Arenas for Conquest cap, Warfronts, even low level Mythic +'s, are very quickly worthless. A casual has to either move on to an alt, or try to push harder content when they may not have the time nor quality group members to do so (or just may not even want to).
I understand that Blizz probably thinks it helps casuals because they can more easily catch up and do harder conten…