Blizzard is so dumb with this crap.
Heroic should drop Heroic loot. This is correct. I have no idea where the upgrade items fit into the picture. You probably shouldn't be able to upgrade a Normal Drop to a Heroic (or higher) drop simply by killing the same boss on the same difficulty over and over again. I honestly have no idea where the upgrade items fit into the gearing process. To me they're existence has been awkward from the start.
Doesn't really matter to those of us who only get to run LFR. As usual we get the shaft with the cool stuff. We all pay our subs we ALL should at least be able to attempt to get a version of the good stuff. Makes zero sense to me that Blizz adds cool stuff that some of us can never hope to get. I mean really would it to have been so hard to include a lesser version of this for those of us who don't have time to hardcore raid? At my age and skill level I just can't commit to a full time raid. NOT everyone raids Blizz.
I think the point the guy was making about how it will be irrelevant the next patch is that it's a legendary item, but it's also the most lackluster of all legendaries and shortlived. Every other legendary lasts at least 1 raid tier above the raid it drops from. Sulfuras lasted til Naxx. Hell, Thunderfury lasted deep into TBC for tanks at least. TBC legendaries were both in last and the filler tiers but lasted entire expansion I remember seeing some use warglaives for wotlk heroic dungeons and early raiding, wotlk arrow changes made thorisdal worse as it couldn't use the superior arrows. WotLK Valanyr which dropped in Ulduar lasted throughout the expansion, MAYBE replaced with a 25man heroic icc weapon. Dragonwrath lasted through Dragon Soul. Then every other Legendary outside of Legion legendaries were introduced in the final patch of their expansion. However this will be the only mid expansion legendary to not last throughout the expansion or at the very least through the next raid tier, although I doubt there would be a 4th tier this expansion. Basically this is a legendary for flavor not connotating an item of supreme power like all the other legendaries.
As I mentioned in previous article about this Bow when upgrade items were datamined, those upgrade items are to make sure you can actually upgrade this Bow to max ilvl. Since it's a legendary, you CAN NOT vendor it or even delete it. And just like all previous legendaries, while it is NOT marked "Unique", it must be unique hence you will NOT be able to see the drop again EVER.If someone get (un)lucky and have it dropped off normal encounter, they will be stuck with normal version FOREVER. Since you can not vendor/delete and won't be able to see the drop again, that version will be it for you even if you kill Sylvanas every single week on mythic. Enter those upgrade items to fix that issue! The drop rate of those items is a totally different discussion.Hope people can stop all the whining about upgrade items..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
man, talk about a clownsuit on that guy
Anyone who's played this game long enough knows item levels don't matter, loot doesn't matter, eventually everything is easy to get and then useless to use, seems like Blizzard really amped up that process in the last 3 expansions lmaoI remember how mad we all were first getting to outland and replacing our raid purples with green gear, now that basically happens every six months in this game