WQ ilvl 400 gear

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I just re subbed to see what is the fuss about WQ 400 gear. Where the heck is it? I get 360 a370 only. Emissaries are 370 only.

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Soon™ brother.

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Lol. Ty. I’m just want to level up my neck before 8.2 hits and then start working on the alts ;-). Emphasis on “working” :wink:
For my tasks I have more then enough gear but I still would like to rub it in with some of these “epix” everyone is crying about.

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Your character has to be 390ish item level before an emissary will give you that. WQs themselves cap out at 370, though.

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385 azerite comes before 400.

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The fuss is literally from players who are ignoring or too naive to realize how the WQ system works… if you are a fresh 120 player, the WQ wont start giving you ilvl 400 gear until you make an effort to reach an average ilvl of about 370-390 or so… the WQs scale accordingly to your current overall average item level.

That’s the way it worked in Legion and the way it’s been working so far in BFA from 8.0 to 8.1 to 8.1.5

So in otherwords, the fuss and crying is coming from players who have a false assumption/belief that freshly dinged 120 players who are barely only item level 320 or whatever, instantly will start getting item level 400 gear world quest rewards, when in reality, they will only be seeing item level 340-370 or whatever initially until they increase their item level some.

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It scales with the character ilvl with a cap for now. There was some ‘‘against all odds’’ pvp quest that gave 400 sometime ago. Think it was lowered after a lot of cry babies.

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I think you can get around 360-370 by doing world quests alone.
Above that you will need to do warfronts and kill world bosses. It will take a while to make a difference in your emissary.
You can mythic dungeon and/or raid to speed things up.

Or just wait for 8.2 because it will probably have a catch up

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I think there are a couple world bosses that drop 400s, but i could be mistaken.
WQs cap out at 370 last I checked, and emissary scales with your ilvl so that’s why you’re seeing 370 only emis

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Only the dark shore world boss drop 400 item. You really need to do mythic plus, raid or cap conquest get 400 azerite gear.

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Nah.

I’m fully aware the character has to be near that ilvl to get the capped out Emissary Quest rewards.

I just don’t think they should scale that high in the first place. BoD is still the current tier. It drops 400 ilvl in Heroic.

Why is semi-repeatable world content rewarding the same as Heroic Raiding (Or Mythic+9/+10 for that matter) under any circumstance? Ivus only does it once every ~3 weeks with a limited drop pool. Warfronts are the same deal. The Mythic 0 Dungeon Event is more worthy of 400 ilvl than Emissary Quests and it only comes like once every 5 or 6 weeks. Emissary Quests are once daily, with a gear option coming up every few days at worst most of the time.

It played a role in my decision to quit raiding next tier. Catchup should be available once the tier is OVER, not months before the next tier launches.

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Because it takes people time, work and dedication in order to get the 400 emissary. ESPECIALLY if they don’t raid, thats more work, time and dedication then any raider.

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Sorry, but difficulty should play a role in the reward scheme of the game. If it doesn’t, there’s no reason to push yourself.

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It already does. The more difficult the content you are able to do, the faster you reach the 400 ilvl gear.

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Yeah, not good enough. I’m gonna be here long-term regardless, so getting geared 2 months faster isn’t that enticing. This hasn’t been an issue until kinda/sorta Legion and now fully in BfA. Legion is kinda/sorta because they released catchup with patches but delayed the raids months after the patches.

FWIW I also have an issue with Mythic+ being overly rewarding for what it is. It’s why this character is ilvl 400 without any carries from friends in less than a month of being level cap.

Time Spent. Time Gates. Coordination Required. Difficulty. All of those should play a role in what content rewards, full stop, not just which content gets rewarded faster.

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This might be why there are so many complaints about average raid teams not being able to recruit and keep players this expansion. :wink:

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changes to 400 when your character is around level 396 or 397

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Legion did not offer Emissaries with gear on par to Heroic Raids.

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That quest shouldn’t even exist in the first place

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Neither should heroic ilvl welfare gear in general, but here we are…

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