Yes, my ideal number of times I’d run a content for loot is 1.
Only in case if you want to reach the cap of it. Otherwise you don’t really need to. This cap is not going anywhere next week.
20 - from heroic, so you need 6 9+ timed runs reach a cap which is hardly a massive grind.
There are still trivial dungeons like Mists or Dawnbreaker.
Right, so you first need to time +8, then do a +9 to get 5 crests, time a +8 again to get 5 more from the next key.
Gotta do 6 keys to upgrade 1 item once.
You still get crests, probably gear (which can save some crests) and experience so you eventually should be able to time 9.
The premise is being at 619, meaning you are in gear upgraded to the max without gilded crests. This means you cannot get any gear because you are maxed without gilded crests.
But its fine, in a few weeks m+ participation is going to drop so hard that Blizzard wont have a choice but to act.
M+ gearing is actually fine, slower than before but honestly fine.
The problem with keys is the +7 affix basically obliterating keys for anyone that does not run a super smooth keys. That is a problem.
This is enough to time +9 and +10 with pugs. But if you really want to respect your time, then just find people to run keys with. In such way progress will be much faster and smoother than with pugs. And much more enjoyable and fun.
Usual predictions just like “wow will be dead soon”.
It is not fine. Gilded crests being at +9 is horrible design and whoever decided that should be barred from ever working in the gaming industry ever again.
Same goes for the +7 affix, thats true.
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Except you can already see a decline but sure, keep defending this ridiculous design that is driving people away from the game.
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It’s only horrible because they put an affix that kill keys super quickly. If that affix was not in place people would manage 9 way better.
Fair, thats why id either remove that affix, or move Gilded to +7, where they belong.
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Everytime someone replies to the problem of pugging by saying to find our own premade
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Oh my… Once again the evil Blizzard is holding someone’s family hostage and you can’t see them until you have maxed out gear /s
How about you play wow when you choose to and maybe just for a moment go outside… wow is a video game not a nanny for 30 y.o. manlets
Would be nice to see some linear power progression, not only weekly from a slot machine.
Guild wars 2 done that right atleast.
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You haven’t even done every dungeon. And you’re below 2k score. Fix those first.
Your plan being bad doesn’t translate to a problem in game design.
You could gear up in hero track gear by playing 1hr a week, doing 4 zek kills and 1 +3. Nobody makes you grind endlessly at a level you’ve already outgeared.
If you want to grind gear you need to get good enough to do +7s. Score matters most in pugs, 613 is more than enough to do +7s. You just need to do better at timing keys and building score.
How can we see a decline? TWW launch was probably the biggest expansion launch since WoD. DF had the best sustained sub count of any expansion in the modern era.
Where is the decline?
Yes, when you change the system so that anyone who was doing +2-+11 keys before is now doing M0 instead, the number of keys being done goes down. That’s…quite literally what you expect to happen.
Exactly! 