As a member of an all druid guild, it will definitely be very easy to help everyone get their tier set.
That's very very fun when you're a single person in the raid playing "classname". No, that's not fun at all, making full-casino random aquisition of something that important is just frustrating and the best place where you could implement that system is a trash can.
I wish it was tokens. I'll be a one of class for my guild next raid, so even with these drop rates the chances of me seeing a set in any relevant span of time is exceedingly low. I didn't have a full 5 pieces of dom gear until well after we already completed the raid, and I suspect I will not see a complete tier set for a similar amount of time with this system.
We have to grind 40 systems to play a character, but they now throw gear at you in PvE. Interesting… Throw some max level conduits, renown and other &*!@ that make me unable to bring myself to play any more alts.
The sets can be earned through M+ as well given you meet the requirements/currency to do so. It’s still a good bit of work and should remain so. It’s very cool you can build /convert stuff into it at some point. Raider kids will still get it first, so good for them dude.
This is actually the best case scenario IF they are dead set on not doing tokens or master loot.There will be decently fast progressions across the group. And the WF guys can stack groups with people that got it week 1 so they are guaranteed tier.
That amount of tier drops as extra loot surprises me. I wonder if it will really go live like that. I feel like tokens are still better. Trading tier without tokens requires you have a copy of that exact class in the raid. E.g. My group runs one rogue. If the rogue gets two or three duplicate pieces they are just going to be DEed instead of used. With tokens, the likelihood you'll be able to trade copies to someone who can use them is higher.I think in the opening weeks of the patch when no one has tier there will be little to no waste. But after a month or so duplicates and doubles that can't be put to use are going to appear. And when compared to the token system where even if the Rogue got hands for the 3rd time they could pass it on to fellow Druids, Mages, or Death Knights the new system seems to just insure you have more waste if you aren't class stacking. Keeping in mind Zerith Morits gives the opportunity to create tier out of non tier so completing a set could be faster overall, but it's still going to suck encountering the higher likelihood for wasted raid tier drops this system is going to open groups up to for the first time.
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Kind of wondering how this bonus loot works.If it's extra pieces awarded as normal loot, I don't think this will help as much as people are making it to be. Personal Loot trading restrictions and class restrictions still apply, so you can trade those pieces to your lone DH, for example.If it works like mounts looting work for end of tier bosses, then this is awesome. It guarantees that people without tier set actually get a piece within a reasonable amount of time, adds bad luck protection and removes loot drama entirely.God knows how it works though.
big if intentional
World First guilds are already preparing their schedules for same class split runs..... First to gear their mains for obviously World First Race and later to sell loot runs to get back "some" of the money gold they spent during RWF. 😃😃
Anyone know if PvP gear will have the tier sets too?