lets say you get achivement for not needing runed crests on a char, your alts benefit from it. also valor stones .
you level a char and can max out the gear you have to be able to join raids and m+ faster on new alts which makes you more motivated
now i gear a char and when i want to level another tank i feeel meeh and do something else
Or how about a better idea:
Instead of waiting 13 weeks (3.2 months) to tune the Dungeons and Specs, they do the tunining ASAP as the problems appear ?
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Yea crests is totally the reason tanks and healers are in short supply 
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Yeah… no… Crests aren’t the problem for me personally, playing 2 tanks and a healer.
It’s more bosses seeing my lunch money as i’m heading home and kicking my backside.
Removing crests and valoratone for gear upgrades will make iy easier for people to level and gear alts a few would be tanks in my oppinion. And also make the tanks a bit more ressilient. Me with pally … very futrating to sometimes be uber boss and one miss button and i become squished ant
well crests or better the amount needed is at least the reason why i dont olay my alts and since my main is basically finished, i play something else.
in df i geared 5-6 alts, mind you because of queue times i farmed them all as healer or tank. i had more time in df but the difficulty change and the crest increase sisnt really help me wanting to play alts now.
so partly they are a reason why we lack alt tanks and heals for mid keys for sure.
i wouldnt really blame quests, i rather say the season is just too tedious and requires too much grind
Interesting, I’m in the opposite. Got 624 druid as main and 2 619 alts. Plus 2 605 alt.
Back in DF S4, my main was relatively lower and so were my alts.
I have all the tanks at max level, although only my Druid is decently geared. Rest of them are 610-620. Crests are not the reason for me quitting M+ about a month ago. It’s just not fun to play +10 keys, and anything below that feels somewhat pointless to do considering I’ll be stuck on hero track.
Blizzard made so many terrible changes for M+ going into TWW, and you’re seeing the result of that now. Even if I had 500 free gilded crest waiting in my mailbox, I still wouldn’t come back this season.
it was easy to run weekly 18s for max vault to gear your alts through the vault.
now i cannot do that because hero gear ia vastly inferior and you end up only at 613 with vault usually which is not good enough of a motivation to climb on my alts.
i have several alts which are by now above 610 ilvl but i dont run m+on them because ez mode delves give the same loot in faster time
Blizzard must take note from PoE 2. The balancing there is on another level. GGG are great
I main as tank playing and gearing all tanks in each season since BFA S1, this season is the first season i truly gave up early because mainly of gate keeping your weekly Mythic vault bad dungeons design in term of adds (million mechanics which leads into pulling a pack by pack regardless if your gear and designed for premade not pugs)… im not a key pusher but i like the progress of gearing my alts casually … and i dont think im alone
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Completely agree - the current loot specialization and upgrade systems makes it too hard to gear for offspec and alts leading to lack of tanks and healers.
If you actually tried tanking this season yourself, you’d realize the shortage has nothing to do with gear, crests, etc.
It’s just not enjoyable to tank in TWW. That’s it. If I could log in tomorrow with full 639 bis gear, I still wouldn’t play any of my tanks. Blizzard ruined M+ tanking for lot of players going into TWW, and while they are trying to address some of the problems with season 2 dungeon changes, it’s not enough. At least not for me.