Coming back to the game - with the new Time Rifts giving free 402, is it pointless to even go to Zaralek Caverns now?
Always have been.
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Seems that way…
Loaded with rares that don’t seem to have any point in killing them.
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I’ve found basically every mid-patch zone pointless so it’s par for the course.
I guess a few hours of forbidden reach for the ring was a deviation.
I mean, if you want to upgrade the rift gear to max level you’re still gonna need to do ZC for currencies.
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Pass 
Catch-up systems are pretty normal for .5 and .7 patches.
The rift gear can be upgraded to tier gear I think. But you can only go from LFR to norm by first upgrading it via ZC currencies.
Except for grinding out Mole and Snail rep, pretty much.
Just add it to my list of places to go back and slaughter next expansion.
I want to get the set of gear that drops from treasures and “unique creatures,” but I feel that might be fruitless, as no one is down there.
If it wasn’t for the sparks I wouldn’t even bother going back
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That’s just how Blizzard does things, sadly. Out with the old, in with the new. Broken Shore became (mostly) pointless when Argus came out. Nazjatar and Mechagon became (mostly) pointless when Visions of Nzoth stuff came out. Korthia became pointless when that shiny robot place I forget the name of because that entire expansion did my head in came out. Forbidden Reach became pointless when Zaralek Caverns and especially Suffusion Camps came out.
It’s all par for course with Blizz. New patch, abandon the old zones, hyper focus on the new zone that has vastly superior rewards and catch up mechanics!
Not saying it’s good and acceptable that it’s like that. Just that it’s like that.
After the rare nerf there ain’t too much of a point of doing Cavern content outside of farming coins to buy the Drake Shard chest if you need them. They didn’t really compensate rare drops to make up for them only being killable twice a week.
Unless you’re just gearing up…yeah, not much of a reason to go there anymore.
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Still a decent place to upgrade equipment you get in time rifts, if you don’t do raiding or M+, but the on stone per rare does not feel worth the time to me, especially since you can’t solo any of the rares.
When wasnt it pointless to go to the caverns? Biggest waste of a zone ive ever seen.
Yes im salty thanks for asking!