WQ ilvl 400 gear

Ravens-sargeras · June 4, 2019, 3:58am

blizzard already moved on from that 8.1 raid. CoS is the current… and is the reason why WQ now drop 395 gear as the blizzard bluepost specifically states:

Upcoming Item Level Increase

Raid Finder (and Mythic) difficulty for Crucible of Storms will open next week, April 23. Similar to Battle of Dazar’alor, you will need an average item level of 350 to queue for it. To help ensure players get raid ready, we are increasing the maximum item level for certain World Quests rewards. This will include the following:

World Quest rewards will go up to ilvl 370 (from 360)

Note that the variation in rewards still exists: Upcoming Item Level Increase

Emissary equipment will go up to ilvl 395 (from 385)

Emissary Azerite Armor will go up to ilvl 400 (from 385)

Against Overwhelming Odds (when available) will go up to ilvl 395 (from 385)

Once the update is live it will affect active rewards like the Emissaries, so you may want to plan for when you will turn those in.

So arguing that heroic gear from BoD is 400 is invalid when Crucible is already out and drops gear higher than 400 (up to 420).

Also you have to keep in mind that WoW caters to all players of many playstyles, not everyone raids… some players only do dungeons, some raid only, some pvp only, some do quests only, etc… and for those who only focus hard on one, raid, pvp, and M+ still offers the highest ilvl rewards at mythic/elite/+15 and higher levels that no world request reward can compete with.