Dead on arrival gear, thank you Blizzard!
Beware .... These can't be converted to Tier pieces
The fact that it is for random slots is very disappointing. You can only send 8 of those per maxed out character to a new level 70. And the chance of getting duplicates is already pretty high at that time. And the fact that it is only 13 itemlevels higher than the 10.0.7 catch-up gear, which has targeted slots, feels so weird. Unless for some reason they plan to add more like this to 10.1.7, which would make these boxes obsolete quite quickly. Sure, you can upgrade it to 411, but still. It just feels weird.
250 flight stones for a single piece of Adventurer gear? Way too expensive in my opinion. If it was veteran 1/8 I would be more pleased
Why did they give 398ilvl items? After all, it's as if PvP players were given tokens for conquests from which eq for honor would fall out....
Bit late arrival but still appreciated. Saves a couple of hours at early max level on alts.
Nice, you can get through arguably the worst part about getting a fresh 70 started very quickly.
...not gonna lie, I was REALLY hoping these would at least be Veteran-track (max 424) instead of this garbage, considering that 250 Flightstones is only a lot if you're actively doing a lot of group content. You can't even make these tier and 411 max is extremely underwhelming, especially if it winds up including some of the M0 trinkets from last season's M+ dungeons that got nerfed going into this patch so that M+ versions wouldn't remain extremely strong (think Ragefeather or Puzzle Box, neither of which is particularly decent nowadays).Like, I don't think Veteran-track gear would be too unreasonable as far as catchup/alt gear goes; 424 isn't even close to high when 435+ is extremely easy to get if you do any sort of group content, that would open up relatively easily-obtainable tier, and said gear could start at 402 which isn't even much better than 398 while still requiring players to do some group content to cap their upgrades. As it stands right now, you're spending an extremely large chunk of Flightstones to give an alt a completely random piece of loot they could also get by spamming DF Heroics, since both these boxes and the stuff that drops from DF Heroics cap out at 411.
Senseless ilevel, as crafting gear is 424.I just insta crafted 5 items for my alt as soon as reaching level 70
I'm not sure what people expected from the "Doesn't require any difficulty" currency box? Why are people mad? I swear, people will complain until Blizzard just puts a BIS set of gear in their mailbox when they login.For a character who just hit 70, this is strong - You'd have a lot of grinding or buying to do to get to the ilvl required even to queue for LFR, Like a whole set of Aberrus 379's upgraded + spark gear crafted. Now you can just flightstone dump on these boxes for 392's, which leads nicely into time rift stuff as well gets you access to the LFR queue. It's very good for the true casual (the kind that probably wouldn't even read sites like this tbh)My only gripe is that it's super duper random, Even if there isn't enough items to do a box for every individual gear slot, they could have done like "box with waist, boots or legs" style if they really wanted it random. I don't think making every item purchasable is the right choice because the next thing people would ask for is the same thing except at higher levels (they already ask for this anyway)
That they are only 398 is bad enough, but at least they should be convertable to tier pieces.Btw, it should be noted on the item if they are applicable to the catalyst. Why are the 402 items from the Time rifts applicable, but the 415 champion items from the researcher event aren't?
398 upgradable 411 whereas the current ilevel is 447 ? why give us S1 stuff ? It's not a catchup this. Give MM0 stuff upgradable , like on previous expansions
should also note it requires a Mythic+ Rating of 1000 to actually purchase
I was a foolish optimistic when it was first announced, altho pretty close guess to what it ended up being, "Adventurer" track rather than higher one. 😆https://www.wowhead.com/news/mythic-gear-catch-up-boxes-available-next-week-flightstone-dump-334004?page=3#p5646838