Why does Darkshore award 400-item level gear?

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Because nobody would do that awful content otherwise.

I bet the participation of that other one has dropped to near zero.

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You do not get 400 items every time, there are plenty of times on my 3 alts I have only received 385 gear. I have only received on one character a 410 item from darkshore.

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If that is what makes you do content, I don’t know what to tell you.

I won’t do content for the sake or reward. I do content because it’s fun, or rewarding in difficulty. Whatever loot is has is rather pointless to me. Sure, I don’t mind getting items, but the items won’t keep me grinding content I have no interest in. You should try it sometime, play because you enjoy the content and not the items you get in the end.

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Why in the world you went in to content you feel is boring and useless? This is entertainment product ment for making your free time pleasant. Do things you enjoy and that give you challenge, it makes playing so much more fun and rewarding.

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“my gear doesn’t feel special enough if other people get almost as good gear than me in differet kind of content”

That isn’t the issue. The issue is getting the same quality of gear from much EASIER content which is mindlessly stupid. Im all for different forms off content rewarding good gear, however that content should have a difficulty curve, and shouldn’t just reward gear thats the same quality as heroic raid loot when its incredibly easy. If there was a harder version of warfronts that rewarded this gear, then yeah im all for it. except its not.

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This is so funny to read lol You have chance to get armor with 400 ilvl and wondering why xD Don’t think to much and enjoy it :laughing:

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But 400 item lvl isnt the best gear how hard is it to understand ? 1 peace every 3 weeks.

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however all those things still required much more time and effort, to gain the gold and reagents to do anything. Also currently in game crafting is also really dumb however thats something else entirely.

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You should be happy it works like that, otherwise you would sit with the issues my progression guild did back in late TBC. Lack of recruits because potential players didn’t have high enough gear to jump in. You had good player stuck at the back because the catch up system wasn’t good enough for those who had been away for a bit, or got stuck in less progressive guilds.

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No no its not the best gear, and it may only be every 3 weeks HOWEVER you still shouldnt gain the same quality of item as a heroic raider for doing much easier content!

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I assume people haven’t noticed the leap of stats that happens at 415 ilvl. It’s a whole different world of power.

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…It’s gonna take a while until I’m there.

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Why do we need a catch up mechanic right now? we are in 8.1. This is still the early days of BFA and right now there are others ways to gear, Like M+ to gain this other gear. Also in Good guilds, people would help you gear to a stage to were you can raid.

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Because nobody would run warftonts otherwise. And yes, it sucks.

Just like nobody likes overwatch league where all teams queue goats comp into one and other so blizzard adds inflated incentives such as overwatch league tokens to compensate their poor balance.

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In TBC times guilds were not that happy to repeatedly having to do full runs on old tiers when they had to gear up a new raider. I didn’t even raid then and still remember the endless complaints about that.

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…and they do I believe. My current non Mythic oriented guild does anyways, so assuming this goes for most normal guilds. Current system just means less time wasted for everyone. Why is this a problem? I thought it was beating the content that mattered, not the item level of your gear?

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forgive me if iam wrong but

The old name system is

lfr/lfr
flex/normal
normal/heroic
heroic/mythic

so infacts its normal gear and mythic is the best and hardest content im sorry but saying “herioc” and i dont mean to be rude doesnt mean anything nowadays .
Since TBC we have had

Arena gear
PVP gear
Token gear
BOE gear
Crafted gear
Raid gear
Dungeon gear

only thing that is different is Warfront gear added .

Its called making a moutain out of a molehil .

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Because I can potentially have upgrade from it (it already happen).

I’m sorry, but I should not have to shoot a bullet in my own feet because devs are not able to properly balance their rewards system and actually put importants rewards in this content.

You are right for the most part, but you can’t deny that getting the appropriate rewards for the appropriate activity is just a logical part of how things should work and therefore a part of the overall fun of the game.

I’m not asking to be given godlike gear while others got crap. I just want to feel like X amount of efforts will reward me with an appropriate X reward.

I don’t feel like I’m asking for anything crazy here.

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It was a serious problem.

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Still catch up mechanics SHOULDN’T give you gear that is equal to the current item level in Heroic. It should reward you gear at an item level so your ready to take part in the content so you aren’t miles behind such as 370. Not that we need a catch up mechanic like that currently.