I would like to know how I can get better gear.
As in this expansion nothing drops for me, I need haste items and the only thing I get is mastery/versatility. I do a number of mythic plus dungeons per week but I only get the same wrong items over and over again and never the items I need.
I raid but also there, the same items I don’t want drop every week and not the items I need.
The fabulous invention the Vault: I only get absolutely rubbish items. Again today and 226 item which I already got 4 times and where the sim says my 210 item is better than this garbage. And the 2 other 226 items are even worse.
Last week I got the choice of 3 trinkets who don’t even make the top 10 of BIS trinkets.
And the weeks before it was the same all over.
I am not interested in PVP.
I mainly gear via the vault. We will see if this reset has made any difference to gearing with the small increase to raid loot. I am not expecting it to have a huge impact but I can live in hope for now.
I am not going the PvP route, I do not want to be forced into game play I do not enjoy.
There was literally no loot out of that boss, except for 2 conduits, so… yeah maybe, and then again… nice loot boost too… if you know what I mean with that “guaranteed” 2 items from small raid boss
Maybe stop bein so obssesed with your secondaries which means so little compared to main stat and equip highest ilvl instead?
Everywhere i see people “oooch this gives me versa but i wanted crit… I dont care it has 50 more main stat, i want my crit”. Yea because we are still playing BFA where mainstat has no value… Smh
Well no thats not true at all for some specs.
My rogue for instance got the 213 version of https://www.wowhead.com/item=183040/charm-of-eternal-winter?bonus=6805 wich was a huge ilvl upgrade from the 184 neck I had.
Guess the theoretical upgrade in dps: basically nothing… And why? Mastery is uselessly weak in comparison to versatility so the amount of mastery on that 213 neck isn’t enough to outweigh the versatility on the 184 item.
In the end, secondary stats are atleast for some classes/specs, so important that even a downgrade can be an upgrade; and thats just stupid.
As for the TS, seeing a 210 ilvl and then knowing that outside of mythic raiding there are no upgrades via drops, the issue is the well known upgrade wall wich come 9.05 should be fixed via valor.
And yes, that sucks, but atleast a fix is coming.
There are classes/specs that rely heavilly on secondary stats. I’'l give an example for Frost Mages spec as i am one of them.
Our main source of damage has shifted this expansion to spamming Ice Lances. Icelance on its own ofc does no damage and it needs procs to do any meaningfull damage. Those procs are Brain Freeze and Fingers Of Frost. Those 2 procs comes mainly from casting frostbolts (which they hit like a wet noodle) so we need alot of haste that will eventually lower casting time of frostbolt, so we can cast more frostbolts to get more procs to do some meaningfull damage.
Choosing a 200ilvl gear piece that has 93 haste and 45 intellect over a 210ilvl gear piece that has 65 mastery and 60 intellect is sometimes a better choice.
In Shadowlands Blizzard apparently decided that for a frost mage Mastery is more important than Haste or Crit. So they’ve put in 80% of our gear loot table mastery. Mastery is very important in a Glacial spike build. BUT Blizzard also decided that in this expansion we should all play Thermal Void build spamming icelances. And in a Thermal Void build mastery stat is almost as usefull as Stamina.
We’re at a point where this is probably going to hurt your DPS more. I’ve had several scenarios where a 226 ring sims similar or less than my 207 and 213 rings. Yesterday I got 220 raid pants while I had 210 and it was barely an upgrade due to having bad stats. Don’t believe me? here are the sims:
My vault rewards with 220 - 220 - 213 (Raid) and 3x226 from M+:
Hectic Add Cleave (rings big upgrade): https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/Yujt1UoSdsH7LbvWJQjcS
Patchwerk (Rings same or downgrade): https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/6W182iwjAskX91gMQ3LTYh
Summary is that we’re passing a point where main stat increases are worth less than the difference between the better and weaker stats.
Nope, thats only because it was a piece without main stat…
Och lord could people start using their brains to read and understand?
When i say that most classes have main stat >>>>>>>secondary stat and first reply to that is “not true, my neck without main stat is better on low ilvl because it has better stat than this higher ilvl which is also without main stat…”
Comeon now people…
Yea this apply to like trinkets rings and necks, maybe some lower stat budget stuff like back or wrist if its like 3 ilvl difference… But once again, main stat is called main for a reason this season.
And thats why i said for most specs and not every single one of them.
Sometimes, and if u do this with your whole gear u gained some extra haste but basicly lost like 300(?) intelect.
