I was just wondering if anyone had any tips to help with completing the LFR raid tier set. I am not overly geared but enough to cause issues when rolling for tier items.
The way the new loot system works in LFR (to my understanding anyway) is that if you have a higher item level equipped in a slot you either can’t click need or its classed as an off spec need. So those that need the ilevel upgrade get first dibs.
Now I understand and appreciate that this may be a good thing for most however it means that its very difficult to complete the tier set transmog as most people on their main out gear the ilevel dropped in LFR by simply doing world content.
I was wondering if I unequipped the slots I was looking for and put low level items in those slots would I be able to roll and be included in the ‘priority need’ for those items I need. Here I wondered would leaving my higher ilevel items in my bag be enough or would I need to leave them in my bank?
I know there is other ways of getting these items as I have been using the vault not to pick upgrades but missing transmog for the set if I am lucky enough for them to be available.
Is there any other transmog collectors out there experiencing similar issues?
Pretty sure they said they put systems in place so that it will check what items you own, not what you have equipped. I sadly did not save the link to this comment, but can try find it.
I appreciate your response thank you, so that would mean that even storing items in the bank would not work. Its going to be difficult to complete this set then!
I had a similar problem, during Legion.
I had players asking for loot and I ended up giving them, just for the system to warn me, I was about to lose the transmog, when I had already agreed, in chat, to give the piece and the piece was in the trading window.
Thank you system
I would had appreciated if I had a warning of “new transmog unlocked” when the piece was dropped in my bags.
Either way, I only managed to complete my Hunter set during SL when Legion Raids became available for single play.
My main BE got all of the remaining pieces, this character got the last piece, the belt.
So you might wanna wait 2 expansions in order to complete the set.
Ill continue doing just that, thank you very much. People can get better gear by simple doing world content, or the ilvl will become obsolete in 2 months time. Mogs are forever.
Someones 2 level item upgrade is not worth more than my mog
Of course they do. There would be no reason for LFR if people didn’t need to go there to progress.
Stop arguing that there is not a reason to go there for loot.
Like people can collect mogs from those events as well.
But LFR supplements Gear upgrades when you’re gearing up a character. It’s nice to know that you have an LFR run each week to fill in empty slots. And to get that extra Tier piece you need.
Which means you have more time to go back and collect them in the future.
Is it a 2 ilvl upgrade? probably not, 359 is required to enter LFR, and LFR drops 376 - 385.
I’m pretty sure lfr wasn’t implemented to progress gear wise.
It’s for casuals to be able to play/see all the content. Devs spend a lot of time and energy on raids, and they want all players to be able to experience it. Loot has to drop as part of the experience, but it is so bad that you can get better gear by literally any other type of end game content.
Lfr is a terrible way to gear up, and I’m pretty sure that’s the way it’s intended to be.
Yes, that is the exact reason why LFR was implemented.
But that doesn’t mean that those players don’t treat it as a way to progress.
Sure, if you want to only do LFR, it’s as bad a way to gear up as doing Normal or Heroic Raids as well.
But a weekly LFR run helps you fill missing slots in your gear. On most alts I play, LFR will be useful for at least 2 weeks whilst Im getting a character going.
I’m not running +20’s on my alts in the first couple of weeks.
For sure it can be done, I’ve filled s few slots myself here and there.
But I think it’s fine to let ppl who do tmog runs roll for the gear aswell. They contributed to the kill the same way as you and I.
Some play the game for the ilvl, some for mogs, some for mounts, and sometimes players do the same content, but for different reasons. That is fine in my opinion.
An easy way out is just unlocking the lfr transmogs when unlocking heroic or normal ones. But then the lower difficulities would have lesser replay value, so I don’t think it’s gonna happen.
I can’t really understand your point of view here. If 25 people are doing the same content and contributing equally (you could say the higher geared people are contributing more, because they do more dps or healing etc) then why should they not be allowed to have an equal chance of winning some loot for their transmogs?
LFR is not exclusively there to gear up, its for casuals like myself to experience end game content obviously at a far lower level of difficulty. So if I would like to invest my time by doing each wing once a week then why am I any less entitled to having at least the chance to get loot (albeit for my transmog collection).
I am not asking for a greater chance just the same chance as everyone in that raid to receive the item I am doing the content for.
I just don’t think that Vanity greeds should be put at the same level of necessity as progression needs.
Need before Greed is the game we always played in Vanilla when choosing whether to roll or not.
Otherwise you might aswell let people Roll Need on items so they can vendor it for gold. After all, my main interest in WoW is making Gold. So I need those items to vendor.
I get where you are coming from, but transmogs have become a huge part of the game, to a point where cosmetic only items are a thing.
Or else split it up, and everytime a item drop, let a cosmetic only item of it drop as well, that ppl can need on. Problem solved.
Rn, it’s just bad design.
And you call it greed if I tmog roll on my main. It isn’t greed for you to need a few ilvl upgrade on your third alt, doing the only content where I can get my tmog, while being one of the worst choices in terms of getting higher ilvl?
The system could also just award the players that has the lowest ilvl in the given slot. Would that be fair? So if it’s a 5ilvl upgrade for you, but 10ilvl for me, I get it by default?
Thing is, if you want to play “fair” where gear get handed out equally in terms of what’s most beneficial for the group, then join a guild and don’t bother with lfr.
The gold/vendor argument is bad. Since if your main reason to play is gold gathering, you wouldn’t waste a second on lfr. But if lfr items could get vendored for 100k gold each, and it was the best way of getting gold, then I would think it was fine for players to join for that reason, but dumb design by the devs.
