I have just started playing last week and have been leveling up with my DH in the legion expansion, and since i know that legion artifact weapons got nerfed like 5 years ago i want to know if it’s the same for raid weapons, would it still be worth it to go and solo raids in legion or would the weapons be just stat sticks like the artifact weapons?
You want weapons from legion raids? The only legion weapons are the artifacts. You get relics to empower them. With 3 of them slotted you’ll have a decent weapon.
No. By design, gear that drops from raids is irrelevant as you level up, and you don’t get any XP from it either. The things you can get from doing old raids:
- Transmog appearances - any item that drops will be added to your transmog collection, regardless of whether the class it drops for can equip it or not.
- Non-equipment drops - Most raids from vanilla up to Mists of Pandaria have had pet drops added, and quite a few raids from The Burning Crusade onwards can also drop mounts. Some are guaranteed, others are very rare.
- Achievements - besides the achievements for completing a raid and completing it on a higher difficulty there’s also the so-called meta achievements, where for each boss you have to do the fight in a certain way. If you do these for each boss fight in a raid you get an overall achievement that will usually reward a mount.
So in short - doing old raids does not progress your character in terms of power level, but it does give you access to a bunch of cool cosmetics.
Gotcha, thank you!
Well, it does increase power level, albeit only temporarily. If the raid drops higher item level than what you get from quests/dungeons, then that loot will make you more powerful.
For a little while.
Some of the best in-game sets… YES! And get some mounts while you are at it!