I’m playing on my paladin all 3 specs (holy main, prot and ret offspec), because I’m in a small guild and I need to assume different roles, based on who’s online - mostly to help carry low geared guildies with low mythic keys.
Before actually creating for all 3 specs 3 azerite sets (head, shoulders, chest), I had to continuously reforge items.
This is what it looks like now. I gave up on reforging because the price is actually crazy. This game mechanic isn’t helping at all in a MMO environment where you should be flexible changing roles, to help many people. This reforge price is left like this since ages ago and should be changed or completely eliminated as gold cost.
Every time you reforge you’re cost doubles and after however long it goes back down. i remember i think it was battle of Dazar’alor one of the Method guys got reforge costs to 1m+.
I know it sucks but it just means you’ll need to farm 3x az sets to be able to cost effectively switch.
Reforging was designed as a gold sink, this is an objective fact.
If this were not so, azerite gear would have changed it’s selected stats based upon your specialization identically to how your essences change according to your specialization.
As a Druid you are effed if you want to play all four specs, thats 9 bag slots (and a lot of azerite to aquire).
I play Resto and Enhancer (offspec) and have two distinct sets which i switch with Outfitter or something similar when changing my spec.
It doubles everytime you reforge and halves every 24hrs. Be mindful of reforging when you know you need to be a certain spec for raid or pvp the next night.
well its not meant to be used constantly. you are supposed to have azerite sets for each respected spec with you at all times.
so no, its definitely not a bug. i only use it when i accidently misclicked or really want to change my azerite talent.
i ve reforged like 2 maybe 3 times the entire expansion. it really makes you pay attention to what you do.
I genuinely do not understand where these people come from, who think that it is an amazing idea to go and Reforge your gear every time you do something. Really, I do not understand it.
I think this concept is a bit similar to the vanilla talent tree.
You either stick to one talent specc through your game time, like damage for leveling than raid spec once you were maximum level or faced with increasing gold costs.
In example a raiding Warrior that wanted to play PVP as arms had to constantly respec between protection and arms.
At least with Azerite gear you can have a additional sets, not as good as your first one, nevertheless is better than nothing.
Unless you are raiding with all specs.
I did raid with 2 specs now up to 3. For me a big part of the game is min/maxing the gear I have. Giving us a talent tree we can quickly change, essences we can quickly change and specs that are even easier to change, having increasing reforging costs makes 0 sense. Everything else says we want you to have different builds for different content, even corruption does, yet the reforging cost for azerite is still there and location specific!
Like Amazoner pointed out, it was attempt to bring in " little bit of classic " into modern wow ,GCD changes and tanks threat aswell .
Me personally i am “main should be main and ms should be ms” type of player ,but i understand that some wants to play all spec and alts at same lvl
The main problem with azerite is rng when it come’s to traits and therefore cant be "classic like " simply because items are not target-able and that leads to reforging being bit out of place .
Personally i would prefer bit cheaper specific items at m+ vendor over cheaper reforging .Even if you do m20 each week and scrap raid items it still take few months to get 3 specific ones
Reforging your Azerite Armor will cost Gold every time and double for every reforge regardless if it’s the same or different piece. The base price is 5 which is relatively cheap, but it quickly scales to become expensive.
However, the current cost will be halved every 24 hours (down from 72 hours). This is a relatively slow decay, so don’t reforge Azerite Armor that often! It’s often better to use a second piece of Azerite Armor for off-specs or choose traits suitable for both.
