Upgrade System Changes in Patch 10.2 - Expanded Tracks, No Longer in Bags, Trading Crests Up

PTR Posted 2023/09/07 at 5:12 PM by Anshlun

Hero upgrade track increased to 6 (was 5).
Myth upgrade track increased to 4 (was 3).
Crests are now a currency and will no longer take up inventory space.
Fragments have been removed.
Crests can now be traded up for higher-level Crests once reaching the lower level Crest’s item level or higher.
For example: Using Season 2 item level numbers, players would become eligible to trade their Whelpling Crests up to Drake Crests when every gear slot had reached item level 411 or higher. Trading up to Wyrm Crests would become available at 424 (again, in every gear slot, using the same rules as crest redundancy), and trading up to Aspect Crests would open at 437.

PvP gear can now be upgraded with Flightstones and Crests (was Honor).
All PvP activities will reward Flightstones, and Crests can be earned from rated activities.
The Crest cap is now 90 per week to purchase 6 upgrades (was 10 upgrades).

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Comment by corrupt733Crest trade up is a WComment by cheesystuffFlightstones will still be terribleComment by sonic1226BAD change regarding the amount of upgrades. This means I will have to play more than 3 weeks to get a fully geared toon. Also, where is the possibility to upgrade heroic loot (from vault) to mythic lvl? Same thing can be done to dungeon loot from vault, why not raid?

Everyone knows Mythic raiding has been loaing its value every patch, why nor make it completely obsolete?Comment by RellyneNow to remove the work order version of the crests for crafting. Give it back to the players themselves, not increasing the cost of what already has a cost.

The current way not only adds this unecessary step (compared to the original way of just collecting, clicking the item and forming the crafting material), but also added the waiting time of work orders, extra materials and the totally unecessary Dracothyst to create uses for that crafting material.

Whoever came with the idea of 2 and 1 Dracothyst for it... congrats, please, don't touch that part of the game again.

Really, a system that was designed to allow constant upgrading, step by step with the recraft option, just got so worse with the Dracothyst. Why would anyone waste time crafting the 1 Dracothyst version of the crafting crest if they're going to do it again with the 2 Dracothyst version? An overall 3 Dracothyst for no reason considering how expensive it would get (transmute CD exploits aside, grats on that too Blizzard).Comment by SneakybeakyPlease let us be able to send them to alts at least at some point in the season. Feels bad to sit on hundreds of crests on my main while having to regrind literally everything on an altComment by SpinosaurusHas it been stated if the crests we have now will be useable next season as well as keeping our flight stones?Comment by vimmie07BAD change regarding the amount of upgrades. This means I will have to play more than 3 weeks to get a fully geared toon. Also, where is the possibility to upgrade heroic loot (from vault) to mythic lvl? Same thing can be done to dungeon loot from vault, why not raid?

Everyone knows Mythic raiding has been loaing its value every patch, why nor make it completely obsolete?Comment by ZannusThis sounds much better, especially with the upgrade system for crests. The reductions to weekly crests also really only effects a smaller % of people who feel they have to max out everything in week 1, so if you weren't capping out crests you wont even notice.Comment by Wahoo123gaDo we know what will happen to our existing crests/fragments? I'm assuming it'll just be like primal chaos where they become vendor trash.Comment by josephxpDo we know what will happen to our existing crests/fragments? I'm assuming it'll just be like primal chaos where they become vendor trash.Comment by ElitecookieHaving, say, 60 flightstones and then complete and time 1-2 +20 keys to then have 110 flightstones is utter and complete crap. Doing higher levels of endgame should reward you accordingly. The trade up change is really nice. Now there should be a better way when "downgrading" them. Trading in 1 Aspects Crest to 1 Wyrm Crest does not make sense at all.Comment by MongYii

God forbid reaching the final state of end game requires a time investment and isn't just handed to you on a silver platter and encourages keeping the game alive for longer.Comment by WeryxSo we will need more crests to upgrade and getting less. Just remove it at this point.Comment by WeryxThis sounds much better, especially with the upgrade system for crests. The reductions to weekly crests also really only effects a smaller % of people who feel they have to max out everything in week 1, so if you weren't capping out crests you wont even notice.Comment by WeryxBAD change regarding the amount of upgrades. This means I will have to play more than 3 weeks to get a fully geared toon. Also, where is the possibility to upgrade heroic loot (from vault) to mythic lvl? Same thing can be done to dungeon loot from vault, why not raid?

Everyone knows Mythic raiding has been loaing its value every patch, why nor make it completely obsolete?Comment by pawpurrBAD change regarding the amount of upgrades. This means I will have to play more than 3 weeks to get a fully geared toon. Comment by kovera123Why not keep them 10 again? The patch after they will be 2 per weekly right?Comment by agentrock

God forbid reaching the final state of end game requires a time investment and isn't just handed to you on a silver platter and encourages keeping the game alive for longer.Comment by Weryx

God forbid reaching the final state of end game requires a time investment and isn't just handed to you on a silver platter and encourages keeping the game alive for longer.Comment by PesachBAD change regarding the amount of upgrades. This means I will have to play more than 3 weeks to get a fully geared toon.