So they’re changing something because of an extreme outlier and making the end game gearing worse for everyone else? That seems silly. You cannot kill that which has no life, and those folks hardcore spamming normals like that will just find another shortcut.
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Now? Pretty sure this has been the case for a long while now. Not just recently.
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100% agreed here. They’re just crests by another name at this point vs being an actual upgrade system by themselves like valor originally was in dragonflight.
Maybe look at making dungeons drop 15 instead of 12 crests (along with raid bosses dropping same or more) too. They’re capped per week, and it just doesn’t feel necessary to slow it down in the same way dragonflight did. Saying this as someone who pugged over 1180 keys in dragonflight (yeah I added it up, no I didn’t sleep much) mostly due to crests.
Really though, I’d still prefer to just have valor. Cap it weekly if you need to, or simply make each tier of gear inflate the cost and harder content reward more.
Usually does not fit into the decision making in this game.
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This must have just changed. I just got 50 from the last boss instead of the usual 30.
Don’t forget if you want to craft your own gear you need 2 Fractured Spark of Omens and 250 valor. So by forcing players to get less valor they are also putting a time gate on players getting better gear.
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I made a great argument. That running content made for level 71s that was being killed in 2-3 pulls 4 weeks ago shouldnt be the cheese needed to boost your 616 gear.
You were the one making fun of people
I am the forums.
It’s the same issue we had in the past: people spamming content lower than them to speed run it for currencies. That includes all lower ones. Not just follower.
How? They queue for Normal and speed run it to the end then they’re done, queue again, rinse, repeat.
See above point.
As far as I know, Worldsoul events are still a good way to get stones.
When it’s to the detriment of lower ilevel or lower level people… they absolutely need to police the degenerate behavior.
It’s not an extreme outlier. We saw the same behavior in the past. It’s not new.
So raid and or go digging unless they nerfed diggin
I think they simply act in the games best interest. It makes sense to me that Blizzard will break a gameplay loops they think will lead to an ultimately worse gameplay experience for the community as a whole even if some players find that they are momentarily enjoying the activity.
Blizzard has shown that they have access to an abundance of statistical data, metrics, and other tools to analyze player activity. My theory is that the devs have a fair understanding of player psychology and the impact certain activities can have on players
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That was my first post in this thread, you might want to check who said what =)
Let me know when you are the Senate.
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They need to extend the time we need to upgrade our stuff cuz the expansion released to early and midnight isn’t good enough yet so they gotta delay as much as possible.
That ani patch might also be telling of this to come if it’s gonna take us awhile to do it all.
More of the same really
If you can purple chest a theater event, you can get 30-40 from that.
I think that’s repeatable each hour.
To me it just sounds like they nerfed normal and heroic dungeons, which in my opinion were already negligible or optional content.
if it was “minor” then people wouldn’t care… if it was “minor” then they wouldn’t have changed it… just because something seems minor to you … because you don’t know… doesn’t make it “insignificant”. and that blizzard changed it… clearly they thought it mattered and wasn’t “minor”.
i bet they nerfed it because the re-enabled the discount for alts on upgrading
ima wait until they say “we heard you, sorry. heres 5000 valorstones/ week”
I bet the followers reported me for farming the first boss and dropping group over and over again after getting sick of it.
Were people having problems with valorstones?
I’ve been having issues NOT being stone capped.
I was literally blowing them on my honor gear upgrades just to get rid of my cap.
Yesterday, I upgraded ALL of my gear as high as it would go (all 606+) and still had stones to spare.