Loot spec not even working?

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Was doing an assault on my retri paladin, and opened up my chest at end, and got a 1 handed sword… and my loot spec is set for retribution.

A question blizzard why is this a weapon for retribution? It is pretty much useless, unless I go tank spec. And also is loot spec even actually working? Or did nobody bother to classify loot correctly in the database so it would work?

I am sure this has happened on a few other classes too, where I got loot not for that spec.

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Yes. There is a problem with loot specs.

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Many of these boxes simply rewards; “Class rewards” and totally avoid loot spec; SI7/Honorbound Loot caches, Warfronts and Tortollan trinket boxes are examples of this.

I don’t see the issue here really, random rewards and all that. It after all have to be some drawback with playing on wellfare, except when the boxes suddenly give way better gear then previous mythic raid drops. :roll_eyes: As I replace my mythic raid boots with a random SI7 pair of shooes titanforged up to 385 with a socket.

My point is; Complaining about hand outs are pretty lame. Since they should not even been there in the first place. I’d rather see more stuff like the Ring from the vendor ~300 service badges, you get something decent which in theory is a hand out but you at least had to work for it.

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Blizzard said that these chests yield loot for your class.

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No, there isn’t. Sadly it is working as intended.

Assaults and world quests award loot based on Class not loot spec and is sadly intended.

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You aren’t MVP for nothing

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@Ghimrizz Wasn’t complaining, was asking a question. As I said in my 2nd paragraph.

@Shammoz yeah guess that makes more sense, still it’s a bit of a shame.

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Just popping back into this thread as Ion has announce changes to this issue in Season 2.

We’ve heard this feedback a lot, and we agree. In Season 2, emissary caches and similar rewards like Assault wrapper quests will award loot based on your spec (or loot spec, if chosen) instead of your class.

Standard world quests will continue to provide rewards based on class rather than spec, for two reasons:

  1. You can see the exact reward up-front, and choose whether or not to do the content if the reward doesn’t interest you. This also can offer a way to shore up weak off-spec slots without worrying that you might miss out on a major upgrade.
  2. If world quest rewards were spec-based, it might seem like the right behavior to cycle through your specs when evaluating potential rewards for every world quest, especially early in a tier, which seems like pretty annoying gameplay.

But neither of those reasons applies to something like emissaries or Assaults, where you don’t see what the reward will be until the end. And as you say, it can be frustrating if it’s for a spec you have no intention of playing, or it can simply feel like a bug. So we’re changing it.

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This is good news.

Suggesting changes seems to help, but I would strongly discourage to imply bugs when it is a mechanic you don’t agree with.

Because up till now
“Your Loot Specialization affects the gear obtained from bosses and Mythic caches.[…]Loot from other sources will usually adhere to your class only”
So it is clearly not a bug or items that are flaged for the wrong specialization.

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I ended up tanking a +12 on my paladin with a holy weapon because of that. I never play holy on that paladin :s Thought that the 380 weapon was a clear upgrade since my tanking one was 340. Thats a shame that it gives class loot instead of spec. Poor people who main a class with more than 1 role! :confused:

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This has happened to me so many times in BfA but i mostly ignored it until last week!

My main is a Prot Pali with a 345 Sword.

I received a 370 one handed sword with Haste and Mastery and was over the moon, finally a weapon upgrade, something that has been bloody rare in BfA. Only to find it’s main stat was Intellect!! Yes bloody Intellect. I even looked at it several times over the course of an hour in case my eyes and brain weren’t working, but nope it had Intellect.

Straight to the Scrap-O-Matic boy i was pissed!

Cheers and Happy Hunting
cM

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