"Legacy Set: Bonus is Inactive"... Why?! :(

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Hello hello. Many years have passed since I last played this account. Just recently re-subbed to the game.

One thing I like to do as I level is acquire old dungeon & tier sets. I ran a dungeon earlier today with full dungeon set 3 (Righteous Armor) equipped but noticed the set bonus were grey, with with following message, “Legacy Set: bonus is inactive”. This makes me sad. It kinda takes the fun out of collecting & using old gear sets at the appropriate level. I then decided to equip full dungeon set 2 (Soulforge Armor) & it’s set bonuses are active & still work.

So this is a two part question…

  1. Why deactivate old set bonuses anyway? It kinda kills the fun for anyone who might want to lock XP & play at a specific stage of the game, ie: Wrath of the Lich King or Cataclysm.
  2. Is it only certain dungeon/tier sets that have had the set bonuses deactivated? Like what I have found with Paladin dungeon set 2 bonus being active but dungeon set 3 bonus being inactive.
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Many of those set bonuses can’t work because spells and talents have been changed.

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Test these set bonuses in the party Synq feature in a group with a person who’s level is equal or below the lvl of content your bonus is from.
May be they don’t work on higher lvl chars than the content tier set is from.

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You can still have fun with all your old items in timewalking if I am not mistaken, I had tons of fun with my old legendaries from Legion

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classes have been reworked massively and have different spells now.
some spect even became melee specs from rannged ones.

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The reason they were disabled was because some players started finding overpowered bonuses for timewalking, so blizzard just nuked them all.

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that and they disabled them,cause some people used them in current stuff in like wod for stuff like buff stacking which they dint like.

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So basically, people who were already overgeared to the point where TW is trivial, had fun in a way that made it even more trivial?

Fun detected.

Fun deleted.

Normal function resumes.

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I imagine with today’s scaling and party sync they’d cause issues too.

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It wasn’t just for timewalking. I can clearly remember that the WoD paladin set got nuked because it gave paladins 1 or 2 more charges for wings, and some paladins were using the set bonus pre-pull to basically get 40 seconds of wings during Legion. I think it was around the time Tomb was current.

I am not sure if those sets are turned off just yet, or Blizzard merely nuked them to oblivion however.

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It is done because certain old set bonuses were actually breaking the game like when dk’s could use low level bonuses to permanently maintain breath of sindragosa, leading to there being a form of BiS of rediculously low ilvl items and litral 2-button gameplay

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what specefic bonus was that? i renemeber breath being op for while but i dont renember the bonus that did it.

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It had multiple bonuses that allowed it to generate more RP from chains of ice, up to 30 RP for one rune which mean you could just spam chains of ice once every few seconds instead of actually attacking as your attack would already occur from the breath.

https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/12821982156#post-1

This is from the old forums to explain what it was, it was actually a combination of gloves and a glyph.

I also find it hilarious to see my old character complaining about the same ability people are complaining about today but in 2014

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except you could bring them into current content since saccing 4 pieces for something insanely OP is an easy choice.

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heres a youtube video of someone demonstrating it.

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combined with Blood Tap and lol.

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cuz blizz are too lazy to just keep them active for lower levels like legendaries from legion work instead they just removed them all ;]];;]];]; small indie company

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It was changed due to :

  1. They wanted to kill twinking amd the fact some run around in T3 in BGs.
  2. They did get enough of always needing to go back to change them, when they became too powerful and people occasionally used old bonuses for more dps. I.e. Mages had some of those incidents.
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https://imgur.com/G8J7OGa

This is why. Shaman was using old tier gear to repeatedly reset earthshock.

Obviously had to be taken away, as some set bonuses would be ridiculous with the way classes function currently.

also tier 14 for warriors “reduces cooldown of recklessness by 90 seconds”. If that was functional in the game today, recklessness would have 0 cooldown and 100 % uptime.

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What is your old character then?
Fuzzah the Tauren druid? or one of the dks?