Ha, people that listened to the incorrect reports about having to recraft legendaries got screwed. Nice.
I was so happy that I didn't have to recraft my raid legendary cause I had made it a ring to begin with, but now I gotta recraft that one too cause it comes with a socket in the new patch ... is Blizzard TRYING to piss more people off!
honestly eff off with this... the whole damn thing is just plain stupid to begin with, i cant tell when last i was this mad about a new system... hell: legion legendaries were better than this... corruption when it was first introduced was better... at least you couldnt do anything about getting a crappy item, now you gotta build a new piece every few weeks and put the old one on a pile of legendary meaningful choicesdont know exactly where i heard this but: it's still a %^&* in the salad, you can try to eat around it, but the #$%^ wont go away... now there is socket in the @#$%, whre you can put a haste gem in i guess... and maybe the @#$% may seem a little smaller with it... but it's still right there in your effing salad, bon appetit to all of us
Is this the crafted base item or the actual legendary?
I'm so glad I ranked up mail/leather shoulders, helms, and chests because they now have no value. Literally so much gold wasted. WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED: Once you get a domination socketed piece of gear that matches your legendary choice, you can take it to the Runecrafter to destroy the domination gear and give the socket to your legendary. That way people who ranked up or crafted head, shoulders, chest, gloves, bracers, belts, and boots didn't waste their time since they would become valueless. I've heard others say add a domination socket to all legendries in those slots but that would give an advantage to those slots being legendaries compared to rings and such. And if all legendries get domination sockets they will have to rescale all the gems/bonuses. Now that some legendaries get regular sockets it even devalues the others even more.
how is this better communication to the player base? announce something like this 4 days before launch
I am thinking of all the goblins that already crafted and/or stacked leggos base items of the affected slots and will have their investment depleted because the slot only will be applied to Newly Runecarving armor pieces. Their anger would be equal to the ones QQing in this thread multiplied by the number of affected items they stacked to sell.Honestly I don't give a pop about bloody goblins, but astonishes me that Blizz sorts or tries to sort such kind of issues - issues caused by the unnecessary complexity of game mechanics implemented in the new patch - just a week before the patch hits: they were too busy counting the profits for recycling TBC content to allocate proper resources for main, foresable and obvious issues of new patch.But anyway, I expect tuning to this issue (goblins are considered VIPs) in a week. They could eventually sort other major problems like the unnecessary complexity of new Thorgast in a month and even balance classes and specs in retail, hiring a dedicated dev or two before the recycling of WOTLK hits.
...I read that as "edible legendaries".
None of this respects the players time spent farming the original Soulash to make the original legendary's that we then had to remake because of the 9.1 loot table and the items that come with shard sockets. People held their SA waiting to see what Blizz would do. Then Blizz added more options for where lego's could be made for. So people made those legendary's again for those slots. And while legendary's in 9.1 will have sockets. It doesn't change the fact that the original lego's are now basically hood ornaments for our armor. Refunding our currency wasted is the only answer that makes sense here.
Except with my Elemental legendary... They didnt add a 3rd option of crafting. So I already had shoulders, and the only other option is hands to recraft. So I guess Ill be getting hands with no socket... awesome.
Sad to see the people defending this as "being impatient" some of us like to prepare beforehand just like IRL. Blizzard communicated this badly. As usual.
Ok here is how it should be.Go visit the rune carver, he will change the slot of your legendary for free and add a socket. So simple.
Okay let us address everything one by one:"Add Domination sockets to leggos in the slots so I don't have to recraft".Except anyone not on a domination slot would have to recraft instead, solves nothing expect puts the burden on the other half of the playerbase AND anyone who already recrafted."Add normal slots to any legendary as my alternate to raidsocket legendary doesn't get one normally"Except instead of temporarily disadvantaging you, it would give a permanent one socket advantage to those with a very specific leggo slots while others would literally not have access to the extra socket(instead of temporary advantage after you can just farm out normal sockets). Not to mention causes even MORE recrafts."I already crafted a new rank 4 and won't get a socket"If upgrading it will REALLY not give the socket to the rank 5 and 6, just craft a new rank 5 once they are cheap enough for you, as your extra cost will be only 2 Missives and the Soul Ash you will get anyways while attaining the necessary Soul Cinders for you Rank 5. You technically lost the price you paid for the rank 4 base item and a set of extra Missives, but realistically, waiting for rank 5 was ALWAYS the best option when rank 4 prices kept rising and you'd be throwing money out on it when within a few weeks you'd upgrade anyways.Most importantly "Screw the system invalidating our hardearned leggos!"Except I will imagine most people are proponents of the return of Tier Sets, guess what, every slot affected by this would likely be a potential Tier Slot, and you'd have to recraft for it anyways.Even if Blizzard offered free recrafts to different slots with Sockets if applicable, you'd save basically nothing once you upgrade to Rank 5 vs just making a new Rank 5 for the same slot, which is where all this complaining p much falls apart. WoWhead among other sites pushed completely shortsighted narratives that people bought into, blaming Blizzard for making the already ideal crafting Rank 5 baseline even better is nonsensical.
Are you kidding me? Like something so minor couldn't have been said months ago? Now I found myself with a newly crafted ring that could have been a looooooot better.. Great stuff.I guess it won't be too hard farming the ashes but I'm so happy I got to pay another f-ing 80k for that white item!...Sorry for jumping the gun guys, next time I'll wait till the patch is out because who knows what kind of announcements they make in the last week before the release. It's not like they had months and months to do it right?...right?
Super nice news to hear, but now REFUND THOOSE WHO SPENT 7.2K STYGIA FOR THE SEASON 1 SOCKET ITEM
that such a good changes good job devs finaly some nice mind setup thinking