This is good news, but I wonder if the fragments we have collected now will reset next season?
They will likely become obsolete, as we are getting new ones into the currency tab.
Oh, I’m just letting them stack up in my bags…like Artisan’s Mettle lol
I don’t think they’ll be of any use, they are all new next season. I have a huge collection of all the crests and fragments.
I’m looking forward to getting my bag and bank space back though
Yeah same, I’ll hang on to them for a while longer just incase…
Worst case it’s just more gold value.
This is how the system should have worked from the start.
I have >300 Whelps fragments in my bags and can’t spend them as my gear is all higher than 411.
But I still need Drakes fragments as I get about 2 a week from the content I play,
We’ll probably get all our crests reset with the new patch so I’ll lose all those Whelps crests I’ve earned. I’m nearly max renown with all the factions so I don’t see that I want ot be out farming world content anymore so I won’t be earning as many as I have been.
So this fix is a little bit too late for me. Might be good for folk coming back to see what’s in 10.2.
It’s a new system, but at least it looks like they listened to feedback.
It was bound to need tweaking over time.
True and this is not something they’ve always done with such alacrity. They found pulling the ripcord in SL for quite some time.
yeah but…
This really could have been a foreseen concern.
DF was supposed to be the anti-grind more generous expanaion. They started well by just giving Dragon Riding for free within an hour of landing on the Dragon Isles. If Bliz were still in their older mindset Dragon riding would have come at (the earliest) level 65 with Renown 15 with Valdrakken.
They just didn’t want to listen at all when it came to SL.
Frankly they don’t need 6 different types of Crest (or however many there are). Have one type of crest and have the upgrade costs be more for the higher up gear would work just as well.
I can understand the division. Or we’d all just end up running +2s again and get the max gear upgrades.
But with the new system it will work the same. You can run lower content 10 times and upgrade it to the higher level if you want.
Run a +2 and get 10 Whelps, do this 10 times.
Or run a +15 for 100 Whelps (rather than 1 Drake).
*Numbers made up as I don’t M+ so don’t know actual one.
But realistically who is going to do 10 +2 runs when 1 +11 run will do the same thing.
Nobody would.
I was answering Puny’s point about why we needed 6 different Crests.
Of course they were correct in the old system as you couldn’t upgrade crests from lower to higher.
But with the new system where you can upgrade them it seems pointless having 6 different ones. Just have how much you earn and how much upgrades cost vary depending on the content being done and the gear being upgraded.
With all these crests we have more rows in the currency tab (thankfully they’ve come to their senses regarding bags space for these at least). As well as an extra step of having to upgrade them through some vendor or something.
Have one type of Crest. Simpler on the currency tab and simpler in game, no vendor required.
I guess it’s just a legacy of how they implemented it to begin with and maybe removing the others is tricky (seems unlikely but possible).
I doubt I will ever have 90 of any crest.
When i tried PTR with a copy of my character, all the ones i had in my bags had been coverted to unusable grey vendor items and did not show in the currency tab.
Shame.
I hope they are readily available in the new Emerald Dream zone.
Also I hope the amount earnt in open world is buffed somewhat. My item level is now 420, I’m getting +1 item level every couple of weeks. And this with me still farming rep for Renown. I dinged max renown with Valdrakken yesterday and with Dragonscale a few days ago. Only the Tuskar to go now, they’re 27, and loamm who are 18.
With the exchange rate in the article I’ll be able to make around 5 or 6 Drakes so maybe 1 wyrm crest.
But of course I’ll be lose all of the ones I’ve earnt anyhow.
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