Ever since they changed this I’m not even looking forward to grinding 2k for the reward. You could say this is the same but not really. The token gave you a fix heroic tier item optional to chose any of the 5. Catalyst charge requires you to have base items to turn them into sets. I’m full of veteran/champ items if I had the old token system I would get a heroic upgrade but now I will have to waste the 2000 rate catalyst charge on a champion piece.
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Funny, I’ve had the same discussion with a friend of mine just recently.
The thing is, the change can either be beneficial, no change at all or disadvantageous. Though, it depends on what “level” you play at.
For you, it’s disadvantageous because you just have Veteran/Champion gear, so a “free” Heroic item would greatly benefit you.
For people who easily farm +6s and above, basically no change at all, just an extra step.
Those people get Heroic items thrown after them anyways, so now they just have to catalyse them, not a big deal.
Now for people who are able to farm +10s - they’ll get myth track items in the vault, which they then can catalyse. This is vastly more beneficial than having a heroic tier item that’s going to get replaced anyways. Worst case is that they could still just catalyse an Heroic item if they get unlucky in the Vault.
So essentially the whole situation got reversed. The 2k reward got worse for casual players while it got way better for more serious M+ pushers/raiders.
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well you dont though ? you can just farm up hero piece in m+ and gthen change it.
you can more then easily farm +6s without any set bonus
Sure you can. As one who has farmed across 3 characters and have yet to “vault” a single tier piece the problem for now will be getting invites.
This week people will start getting their 4-set together while I am stuck with my season 2 set. It’s annoying. It just is - plain and simple.
Sure - I can probably take a 2-set combo with my 2 tokens but with my usual luck any potential tier in the vault next week would probably be one of the pieces I would choose this week.
The system sucks. I guess it’s the name of the game. But if you dislike raiding I guess that’s what you get…
push your own key then ?
thats what i did last week and what i will do this week on friday / saturday when i will be done with dvelves on 4 more alts 
you have guaranteed spot then - magic i know
bdw dawnbreaker +10 anyone ? 
This is something I agree with. The system does suck. The GV, as it is, is a pretty bad gearing system. I’d love some more deterministic way of gearing or at LEAST some kind of bad luck protection.
Yeh, the tier token is a lot better imo.