That’s not a new suggestion, however there’s no recent thread about it and I’d like to point out some pros and cons.
The main cons is this system is not easily recognizable and not natural. As a returning player to late Legion after WotLK, I opened my first chest 1-1.5 month after starting to play it: boosted the char to 110 immediately, did content, even found that chest in the class hall, but I never suspected that the chest was supposed to give something useful.
The main pros it currently has is the titan residium currency from PVE chest, it’s not completely devoid of RNG, but you get to decide which type to get and when to get it (spend on 460 for quick progress or wait till 475, or pile up to target a specific item).
Remembering old times when you would get some currency for doing arenas and some other currency (e.g. badges in WotLK) from PVE content I can’t help but notice severe regression in terms of transparency (currency just gets added to currency tab as you go, no need to collect it somewhere) and excitement (when you piled up enough of currency and are finally able to buy an item you want VS getting useless items for same slot week after week keeping the expectations and excitement low)
Overall one of the easiest and biggest improvements players could ever hope for Shadowlands would be removing of the weekly chest system for both PVE & PVP.
On one hand, I agree, the weekly chest can feel incredibly awful, especially if you loot crap gear for the umpteenth week in a row from it.
On the other hand, I believe the weekly chest is the last thing that protects us from Ions RNG Madness, with him and his love for random upgrades, so having at least one item to be guaranteed the max itemlevel as well as receiving the random upgrade (even though the corruption of course ends up making it a 1 in 50 chance of the item actually being good) is something that I personally enjoy to have.
I don’t necessarly disagree with you, I find the whole system at this point in time to be much too random, but I believe the randomness needs to go, and with the whole “Ions RNG Madness week” gone, the weekly chest becomes unnecessary.
But hell, I won’t complain about anything anymore. The last time I complained about titanforging being annoyingly random, Ion decided to replace it with an even more random system, I didn’t even know that was possible, so yeah, keep the weekly chest, just stop creating more random upgrades on my items that determine whether or not my character is well equipped. Please. I’m honestly scared.
I’m fine with the weekly chest (in SL, we’ll get to choose one from three items, I believe), but I’d like to see the vendor gambling removed. Saving up for a specific piece is too costly and takes too long, and waiting 3 weeks for a random piece just to get the same dud repeatedly is also not much fun.
Weekly chest is fine yea, especially for alts. Do a mythic run and leave the alt until it gets a powerful item the next reset is a good way for gearing alts.
Besides we are gonna be given choices in Shadowlands as you said. It is also exciting event for many, randomness is sometimes bad but people cannot deny it is also intriguing.
If that were to happen i feel like untimed runs shouldnt give any loot anymore.
Otherwise this would only result in people waiting for Lust on every pull in a 15, which is not what m+ is designer to be
I didn’t advocate for the removal of timed here, just the requirement of having a mythic keystone of actually starting the dungeon.
I have my issues with the effect timed runs have on PuG groups, but I don’t PuG anymore and have a guild to do them with so they’ve become non issues for me, the timed in a guild run is also a lot more relaxed and enjoyable then with PuG’s
What really gets to me is, I want to do specific mythic dungeon on specific difficulty, only I can’t because I don’t have the proper key. Remove the requirement to keys and just let me enter idk, mechagon Junkyard and say to the pole ‘HIT ME UP WITH A +50’ and then it starts a +50
I wasnt implying you were, was only elaborating on a possible consequente if such a thing were to be implemented.
I do like the idea behind it, but it would require some bif changes, like i said. If they would only do it like that you would get situations like in my earlier reply which, in my opinion, are pretty detrimental for the game
Ah then it was my misinterpretation
Yeah I gave it some thought and I see what you mean now, how do you prevent people from cheesing the chest of a + run they’re way too low to hit on timed.
I’d personally say loot is fine from the dungeon, but unlike now I’d say let the ilvl of the mythic chest reward by the highest completed in timed rather then the highest key completed regardless of time but I’m not sure how that would affect the high keystone runners
Such a system does enable more people to do more keys, which can let them(me as well) improve way more than they can right now.
It also still wouldnt really affect the current achievement, except for dodging the rng part of getting the right key.
Weekly chest are not ok for pvp. Maybe fir pve the work fine. But for pvp gear, vendors and curency need to come back.
And that bullsheet you need to do all content in the game is with big eyes.
I dont want to pve and that’s it.
with big eyes.
