They need to do on every new raid like this:Dont do this in the first dragonflight tier, put the vendor of the first tier in the game in the second tier and the same in the third tier.
It is pretty much an offseason, no new raid, likely shorter season 4 timeframe since they announced a new expansion. Its to fill the void of people who are now done with shadowlands season 3 and are growing bored of replaying it. How they hand out loot is another way to test engagement for Blizzard. If this hype lives up, they may do this in dragonflight and I am sure we'll see people complain about it.
This is cool, but one hand should give 2, 1 hand weapons
i can see that token coming from the weekly vault also
So all of the SoD weapons will be on the vendor but MM/BM hunters don't get their special weapon on the SoD vendor? Just because they decided to make it legendary shouldn't be a reason to keep it off the same vendor that everyone else can get an OP weapon from.
Hmmm, not sure how to feel about this
My guess is they're doing this cause it's the end of the expansion and it's "For Fun". No mythic first pressure, reward is just for doing all the raids, ect. I think in this context this is a neat idea.
Why would my character trade a "priceless" coin for a piece of gear that will be obsolete in a patch?I'm keeping the coins bruh.HODL. GOLDEN HANDSz
Give people what they say they want for the final season. They will remember all the reasons valor and justice were so widely criticized and the pressure everyone was putting on the Dev Team to get rid of it and create something else. Having to heavily rely on the vendor and wait weeks to complete a set of BiS gear everyone else already has is a horrible feeling. This is also going to create even wider gaps between the people who get the drops they want early on and the people who don't. Much like the gap between people who got 4 set week 1 of this patch and those who found themselves with 1 or zero drops. You are going to have people not only able to collect a lot of BiS drops early on, they are also going to be able to use such a vendor system to target specific drops on top of that. This has a compounding effect, making them much more powerful than the average player early on. Later, when the vendor has inevitably given everyone who's been playing from the start their BiS, anyone coming in late (or rolling an alt) has a much much harder time breaking into the game because after X date everyone is assuredly running around with their BiS gear while you're still working on gearing from scratch.