This nerf to gear is just too much. I’ve never gone into a raid before and haven’t gotten a single piece of loot in 10 bosses. This is absolutely crazy.
So utterly disappointed in this gear nerf. Why not just leave it be?
Holy f… am I irritated right now.
Yes I’d take the vendor over vault any day. If I remember correctly it took a week or two to get an item from the vendor and it was not as good ilvl as the best raid drops and full sets were not available. Except for shaman totems and paladin librams you could only get those from the vendor. Then again, you didn’t have repeatable content (m+) from where you could farm decent gear.
This is really disappointing and outrageous at the same time. I’m at 177ilvl, I no longer get ilvl upgrade from hc dungeons, but at the same time nobody invites for mythic dungrons unless you have 210ilvl (hc raiding gear), so I had to make my own group and after 30 minutes I’ve managed to get the people we did the dungeon. No loot. I got a +2 key did it the same day. No loot. Went to LFR cleared 2 wings. No loot. Its not so fun if you think about it.
Hmmm, you should be getting some ilvl 177 drops from standard content, adding a Legendary upgrade and a token for a Covenant weapon, should help. I’m at ilvl180 on just standard content (I haven’t used the Covenant Anima upgrade option yet), Heroic Dungeons, LFR, Vault, basic Leggo and Covenant weapon token, I dont do Mythic+ or Normal/Heroic Raiding…Awesome belt, want one of those!
But, like you say… non of it was ‘good’. You can still see the TBC vendor loot - I think the vendor is still there… non of it was comparable to the SSC/TK/Hyjal drops it was supposed to be a bridge to. It would be regarded as the very basic 184 M0/unrated PVP gear today - if that.
So the guaranteed drop from the vault is - imo - a much better alternative. But then it’s all down to perception of gear acquisition vs time spent vs actually good gear.
Yeah - that is bad luck. And where the game is now - it’s a wrench from the previous years. We’re in a weird place now - trying to cram the past back into the newer model of the game. I’m not sure where I stand on it tbh.
No worries - tomorrow you’ll be able to upgrade your sanctum gear up to 197 Ilvl which is 3 lvl below Normal Raid Gear so you don’t need to raid for it anymore. (=
You also get set bonus and wait for it, wait for it - all upgrades are done via Anima you farmed in raid. =P
Well they should buff the anima at least. I feel like just 35 anima for a raid boss is too less. Like it should minimum 125 per boss. You won’t get item but at least you can level up your covenant.
In the last 2 weeks, I’ve done 18 bosses on Normal and 8 bosses on heroic, as well as about 8 mythics.
I’ve got 2 pieces of loot in total, 0 of which were an upgrade.
I absolutely hate raid leading and melting my brain in PUGs only to get absolutely nothing. It’s such a slap in the face.
If I didn’t enjoy making my parses better and seeing my progress as I minmax my build, I would’ve quit raiding altogether (and therefore, probably the game).
Thats not problem with amounth of loot drops. Thats issue of forced personal loot and pugging. Also its kinda hard to make loot upgrade on same threshold with so many gear sources. Specialu when pvp vendor now sells 200itemlvl.