As it stands now, in the current patch we simply cannot get 239 Conduits from Mythic+ dungeons.
+15s only drop 236.
In the next patch, guess what, the max item level again will be 3 item levels short from the next tier of conduits, so unless they change it, mythic+ players cannot get 265 Conduits until they do all +20s.
Furthermore, certain conduits are a decent power spike, I play paladin and for example I get a few good upgrades from the conduits. It depends on the class, but most of the powerful paladin conduits all drop from M+ only and not from the raid.
Heroic Raiding and Mythic Raiding does drop the 265 and 278 conduits, but if you dont have a group to do raiding with you are pretty much inferior to people who do do that, not to mention that again, not all conduits drop from Raiding.
So thats 2 item level upgrades that players miss out on if they don’t do the more extreme content in wow.
Is that fair?
At least korthia and torghast did give us the ability to get stuff to 252 and empowered conduits gave us another 2 rank ups.
It’s quite crazy to see that blizzard hasn’t added a new way to do it yet.
dont want to bother you but we are talking for patch 9.2 here… there is no item like in korthia that upgrades a random conduit to x ilvl… and again, you have no idea what is going on on boosts and how popular this is … I dont want to discuss this any further. people who know boosting community will understand how this item is a gift from Ymbarra to boosting community. You can belive that people will not boost for it and will grind for it (wonder why they dont do the same for all the other reasons they buy boost for…)
There will be an item that upgrades conduits. Maybe not at the start but it will come.
And don’t say you don’t want to discuss something then reiterate your point with no backup at all. You sound like every other handwaving cretin around “just trust me” “I heard”. No.
Afaik, you can get 278’s from mythic raids, and you can get 265’s from spamming +15’s. And then there’s the ‘‘Do all +20s for full 278 conduits’’. Which is not BoA.
Welcome to Blizzards current “borrowed power” systems where your class is only 50-80% of itself and the “systems” make up the rest and then when you go into next expansion your char feels like it isn’t whole until you hit level cap and farm out the points for the new system.
Man I wish we could go back to just having characters and having them get better and better gear instead of having to farm points to unlock our weapons, cloaks, necklaces, conduits etc etc.