The 370 wpn Emmisarry today

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I believe the changes that were talked about are coming 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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I did the weapon emissary with my paladin, expecting to replace my 345 2h sword from Arathi warfront. Except the 2h mace I got had less DPS and STR than the 345 one… That felt pretty weird.

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3rd emissary for 360 and ive got shields each time … as an enhancement sham

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Maybe cause it up for alie

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When is season 2?

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Wednesday :slight_smile:

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Well, on this druid i first got 370 OFFHAND from the assaultbox, that also ticked the emissary for Honorbound, lo and behold, 370 intellectmace and yes, I kinda wanted those for my battlechicken / angry bonsai so not really disappointed there :stuck_out_tongue:

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I play survival and get nothing but ranged weapons.

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And today after months & months I finally got a Weapon…

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Funny, my hunter on the Alliance has the opposite problem. 7th legion polearm for your 7th legion gun? Even the bow is oke!

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I kept getting polearms on my BM for a loooong time. Finally after sacrificing a few trolls and orcs to a blood god, I finally got a 370 bow from the warfront.

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Crossing my fingers for better luck next time then. Many guildies and friends have had the same problem, getting survival weapons when in need of ranged ones, and seemingly always survival weapons. I have only seen melee weapons when being online too, but my hunter hasn’t been 120 for more than a few weeks, so I can’t complain about personal bad luck yet, but I find the system very frustrating. I had the same on this character(my main), where she kept getting agility weapons(and still do. I don’t recall ever seeing a intellect weapon from the WQ’s when I have been available). Luckily she looted a lot of weapons from instances and raids(?!) at the start of the expansion, so I got covered anyways.

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this hotfix will be up on 23rd :slight_smile: but only from invasions - emmisaries will be still class specific not spec

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legion made people lazy - weapons were always the most problematic slot to fill up

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You’re wrong there, read their post correctly. All rewards that give a box you can’t see into before looting - which includes emissaries and warfronts - will be spec-based.

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Finally! I despise this “loot for your class” thing thoroughly.

“Loot for your class” imo isn’t RNG based when i almost constantly get loot that benefits the opposite of my dps spec, i see it as another mechanic to slow us down. I’m sick of it, it made me feel like progressing backwards, it has driven me into leveling my alts and lock them on 110 to get the best out of Legion.

I do hope i will benefit very soon from my loot specialization set to fury.

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Storms wake was weapon emissary yesterday, did it on my alliance toons. Got ‘off - spec’ items each time, which is what happened to OP. Means we are in the ridiculous situation of changing our loot specialization to something other then our current spec in order to get the loot we want?
Shameful.

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That what happens if you expect a free bit of gear every time you do a menial task.

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For those who missed Watcher’s most recent update:

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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They were not, unless you played spesific classes. Been around since vanilla, and had hunter and resto druid as main. The hunter had a harder time getting weapons than the druid, as the hunter use a very spesific weapon type, not shared with anyone else. Overall weapons have never felt hard to upgrade. Trinkets however, has a been a challenge in the past.