Yes he should.
Ask for them yourself so I can scold you for being lazy you dirty casual.
Thereâs nothing hardcore, skillful, casual or scrublord about RNG.
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Welfare Benthic is one of the deadly sins.
Iâm sad for you.
If it stops people entirely relying on RNG itâs a positive. I miss buying stuff with BoJ and the like.
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At least it is better to go full benthic âeveryone gets normal+ raid gear for free, with a bit of grind but no risk of failureâ than to go half half like the rest of BFA where warfronts, titanforges etc give some much better gear than they deserve and others⌠well, not.
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Remember when raider io did not exist because the difficulty of obtaining gear was proportional to its item level?
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Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Then again, crap like ilvl existed back in Wrath in the form of Gearscore.
The people at work are slowly driving me insane.
Nah, I donât want an uber powerful l weapon for 5 pearls. I actually like having something to work towards. Key work being work.
Atm the method is not work. Itâs gambling. The mythic I am running are only 2-4 plus because tbh even a 405 is enough. But these mythic arenât really that difficult atm. Iâve never certainly been in a spot where it was clear âboy, youâre tanking out of your depths hereâ but I donât want to do the stretch myself contebt whilst my wep is that crumbs because Iâm paranoid about threat issues etc. Since blizz made weapons more meaningful in calculating damage again for many classes.
Itâs just eh, how itâs luck over effort. Case in point my priest whom I played kind of casually compared to this guy last season got titan forged 425 leggings with his bis slot stats and a socket from his first loot chest. I put so much less effort into the priest and his gearing experience was so much smoother regarding getting what he needed.
Come on blizz make effort and direction mean something rather than it being reduced to âmore effort equals more tickets in the lotto!â. Iâm happy to grind if I know it works, hell I geared during the wow badges and raid tokens period. Iâm not adverse to a grind!
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Fully upgrading an item to 425 costs 220 pearls, plus potentially 5 for getting the item in the first place (or more if you want to reroll it into a socket). Azerite costs 420 pearls.
Granted Iâve not been doing every pearl activity but playing consistently on most of them since patchday has netted me around 250 or so pearls total, so itâs like two weeks of daily quests for one item. About double that for Azerite.
At that sort of rate youâre looking at 12 weeks (3 months) for non-azerite pieces. Plus lets say 3-4 weeks per azerite piece (so 12-16 weeks). Youâre looking at 6-7 months of daily grinding to kit yourself out.
Which is just in time, as it turns out, for the next patch to hit. Weird.
I donât think two weeks (four for azerite) of daily grinding for a single piece of gear is a small investment, and I donât see how adding weapons, rings and trinkets to the options would hurt things. Itâd help to fill in the gaps when RNG really hates you - such as when youâre still running around with 370 or 375 weapons, or when I wanted to replace my 390 belt.
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Iâm focusing my pearls on the abyssal focus and azerite slots only atm. Pearls seem an effective way to gear azerite pieces given their residuum cost, as I claim mythic Iâll be hopefully getting gear at equal to the benthic pieces which Iâll swap them out for. With azerite pieces itâs basically residuum or pearls, so Iâm going pearls atm.
I donât plan on hardcore raiding Palace so itâs no biggie if my benthic gear lags atm. In case that changes Iâve banked some âbisâ benthic pieces with desirable traits or secodnaries/sockets Iâve picked up from quests but not pearling them unless I have to, or I Pearl everything else first which seems unlikely before next patch. Especially as I donât religiously scour naz for pearls. I do my quests and then Iâm out. Need that time for the mythic lotto runs and trying to kick my necklace ilevel up
Was the DK able to trade the weapon, or was it his highest item level weapon drop?
Iâve been doing +10 to +13 mythic dungeons for several months, and couldnât get a weapon upgrade - I only got an upgrade from my WQ weapon when the Conquest reward happened to be a weapon. What more work could I do?
EDIT: Especially compared with Benthic gear, which requires a lot of constant work in doing daily quests and killing rares. Iâve been doing everything I can every day since the patch released, including getting the Abyssal Focus online, and my Benthic gear is âokayâ.
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Dailies are far from the only source of pearls, though.
Rares can get you up to three pearls, and they refresh every day. I believe on one day when I got lucky with rare-farming, I netted around 40 pearls. And then on days when I couldnât bothered, doing the dailies only got me around 5. Thereâs also the hourly events. Each one of Azsharaâs commanders give two pearls, although good luck killing more than two before theyâre all down. Then thereâs mission table content, with one mission being able to net you 10 pearls if you 200% it.
Pearls are one of those few things in WoW where the more effort you put in, the more you get out. Sure, you cap out after youâve killed all of the rares for the day and after youâve done as many of the hourly events as is humanly possible, but I think youâre being far too conservative.
Kinda supports my point though - I was just talking about âa few hours a day, every dayâ, but rare farming/camping is more concentrated time. Itâs still work=reward. Itâs not getting stuff just for logging in.
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None of that grinding nonsense.
Weâre all about that work, like doing one +10 and waiting for a week for the chest to give you a random reward
One of my hobbies is seeing how high I can get my item level through playing solo/casual content. The answer almost always is âhigh enough to be competitive, just not cutting edge.â
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