I guess im gonna skip 9.1 and maybe even the rest of the expansion too
I'll just chill in the old content, leveling alts. Maybe explore 3 other covenants with appropriate toons, no minmaxing (Night Fae DK, here we go). Anyways, I haven't played in nearly two months already, not gonna bother with new grinds.
Nobody asked for this...I haven't played in 3 months and this does not make me want to come back.
Well i play all classes and have max rank legendary on all and some multiple types. Soooo thanks blizz.Why not just allow adding a domination socket to legendary, problem solved.
Would have been nice if they had considered the crafted materials cost for this as opposed to just upping the amount of Soul Ash that drops. I now feel like all of the time I spent farming up Leather in order to get my Rank 4 boots was entirely wasted as I now am supposed to move them to my legs instead. Their apparent silence on this issue tells me their response is that my time doesn't matter as much as their new shiny system that will be disposed of in 9.2. This essentially means the options they've left for me are to spend hours mindlessly grinding Leather, buy newly overpriced legendary items on the AH, skip their new Domination system & raid with what I have, or skip raiding entirely until the next patch. None seem like player friendly options.Hard for me to get excited about 9.1 when Blizz seems to not care at all about my previous time investment.EDIT: Adding in another spot of anger, my legendary is supposed to move to the Legs according to this chart. With Blizz bringing back Tier Sets in 9.2, there's a decent chance that the legs slot will be included. Which means I'll yet again have to remake that same remade legendary to get out of the way of another Blizz system due to an arbitrary restriction they've added in with seemingly no real purpose. Doesn't seem likely that they'll give us options to fix these legendaries in 9.2, given what they opted to do for 9.1. Thanks devs, I feel valued as a player.
Plot twist (not really):They know it's dumb, but 9.2 needs content.
Inb4 "fun detected"
This is bad
This proves wow devs don't play wow. No one in their right mind who plays this game would design this.
This is so screwed up, I am totally lost. Looked at current socket maker with Venari and it says for season one legendary, would it still work in 9.1 ?
You dont have to do anything, only if you want to stay competitive. And if you wanted to, you would be pilling up soul ashes for a long time now.
jesus F christ who came up with this crap, farm a Legendary in first tier for 150k+ gold and 5 weeks of torghast thinking it would last for the whole xpac and then you have to recraft THE SAME ITEM because the old logic which slot to make it for is obsolote now and will actually make your char perform worse if you dont bend over and suck it upyou know what, they re doing this so they get more gold moving from player to player, increasing the price/amount of tokens bought/sold. what a sad !@#$ing moneygrabbing company they ve become, or at least the Activision clowns behind them are.....
I don't mind Blizzard adding systems to further the creativity and customization to the game. My problem is that everything you did before become null and void. For example, as a blacksmith, my crafted items for plate just became worthless; people will aim for rings, necks, or anything they can socket because plate will likely be targeted for the new gem system, making my crafted pieces for legendries worthless. Also my current crafted items will need to be re-crafted. Basically people who play the game consistently have the biggest loss. They haven't addressed a system to help refund part of the ash so we can gear towards other crafted items. Blacksmithing also becomes much less worthless. I've been playing classic TBC, and it's game is so much more rewarding. Creating your own weapon in blacksmithing last you multiple tier raids. Sure they don't have mythic raiding and also raid fights like we currently do, but the overall feel and pace just feel better.Don't get me wrong, blizzard will address this issue like 2 months into the patch like they did with corruption. The problem is, these game developers don't have the foresight to see that their new systems just create more problems. I'm excited for the new content, but also saddened that those that have played loyalty and put in the work also now have a greater disadvantage of having to "redo" the work we already did. Part of the fun in the game is progression, but I can't help but have "feel bad" moment. Also, I'm having way too much fun with TBC so perhaps I have an overall disappointed vibe going on for 'live' shadowlands. Classes feel better to play, but their gear progression needs some serious overhaul imo.
It seems that increasing the drop rate of soul ash and making players re-craft legendary items is a sad attempt to get people to do content that i.m.o is just not good. Sure you get powers and can be over powered which is kinda cool at first, but there's no challenge to it and literally feels like a chore rather than something to look forward to. They've made changes to torghast in 9.1 that I personally don't think will make it much more enjoyable, but if it does, players are going to be sick of it very quickly after having to grind soul ash. The other day I looked into the legendary re-crafting situation for my main. 5 of 7 legendary pieces would need to be re-crafted should I want to be as optimal as possible in different content. It's obvious blizzard is aware that there is an issue with the new domination socket system interfering with the legendary items we have crafted, I just don't understand why they wouldn't allow players a way to fix the situation without having to do the same grind we did in 9.0. It feels like blizzard only looks at metrics. How many people are playing and what content are they playing? How can we get them to play more of that content? Forcing players to grind may work short term, but I feel decisions like this will drive parts of the player base away from the game. Make a game that players enjoy and the numbers blizz wants will be there.
I'd like to recraft my legendary but I'm afraid Blizz will nerf it or something after 9.1 raid week...so I'm waiting till after to craft it. I have the soul ash banked and a socket waiting.