The amount of negativity the catalyst delay is receiving is astonishing. As a disclaimer, everyone is entitled to their opinions and I also agree with them to some extent. I think that Tuesday 1/10/2023 would have been a fair date to release this feature, or even a week earlier. However, this is not intended to be a main progression system - The Inspiration Catalyst boils down to fulfilling a role as bad luck protection. It is not intended to replace how you obtain your tier set: It exists to be a guarantee on when you can get your bonuses. The grand majority of the tier sets that have existed in the game's lifespan have never had the luxury of obtaining via other means, it was just "Raid and hope the boss drops it". And back then, you couldn't even get a tier piece out of something like a Great Vault either.The reality is that 9.2 Sepulcher and Dragonflight have had the only additional avenues for obtaining tier, with the exception of being able to buy a a piece for Badges back in the days of WOTLK (And this didn't even encompass all slots). I've seen people go as far to say that the catalyst delay is killing the expansion for them, but this was only ever introduced in one other patch; and I think the one thing we probably at least all agree on is that it's better for this system to exist, than not at all.PVPers however, do have a legitimate complaint - The tier pieces have set stats, and this can make it so they have to wear multiple pieces without Versatility if they want to take advantage of their tier set. Additionally, unless they get extremely lucky great vaults, they basically have to wait for the inspiration catalyst to come out, or go PVE to get their tier set bonus. This is a hard problem to address because if they make more it obtainable in PVP, PVEers would feel that they had to PVP to get the set early. I'm sure there's more than one way to address that problem, but I think that having a separate, PVP-Specific tier bonus would allow Blizzard to make tier much more available to PVP players.If anyone disagrees, that's completely fine. But it feels like the comments section has become embellished/exaggerated to the point where it's not just an opinion or perspective, but it evolves into a rant and a cesspool of negativity. What should be just a discussion, or even a debate, ends up being hateful; and there is no reason for that, regardless of how right or wrong you think someone is.(Edit: Corrected to "Have Set Stats" instead of "Have Set Slots"
I'll be able to prog H Rasz with my guild finally! Wait, they'll all be done by then :(Sucks to be a 1 tier piece Andy
world first is done give us our tier already
I am looking forward to getting to max level soon and taking advantage of this to get some good gear and get some cool transmog along the way. I have been playing about 4 hours every week since the expansion came out and I am enjoying it but its amazing some people are already raiding and stuff.
It not working on crafting gear sort of annoys me considering the amount of effort to go through to craft something of equal level and value.
everyone crying in this thread doesn't understand the catalyst is meant to be a backup long after progression is over, for casuals and altsIt's not late, at all. The only reason you think that is because you don't have 4pc and think you deserve to for some reason.
Seeing Raiders already demanding "list tier" to do M+ runs and almost ALL the timed 20s keys have players with tier set bonuses, this literally is a big flat slap on the face of M+ only players.I guess better late than never, while Blizz keep worshiping almighty raiders like they are the reincarnation of the old gods.
Absolute nightmare for people to wait this long. I can go push beyond 20 keys and farm everything I need and even with lucky drops and all of it with maxed valor nothing will give me more dps than an LFR tier piece that people have been winning with alt toons and selling or using for transmog. I will never be able to do the same amoutn of damage as someone who got lucky for a random roll. Hate this system that forces you to raid. I wanted to just enjoy mythic plus and now every week of watching other people get lucky I have to become super toxic and gate keep people and make funnel for normal/heroic kills instead of just being able to play with my friends on whatever classes. You wanted a toxic raid enviroment? Congrats. Funnel only and bullying to make sure players get what they need 7 WEEKS into the tier. Congrats Blizz, you created a monster. Never again will I ever just play the game and not make sure I get what I need.
Too late.