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Don't think anybody will read this but, I'm a veteran player that tried returning to DF this season (literally have the game open rn) and after watching this video I'm still lost. There are over 6 currencies to interact with, several different types of gear sets, I mean it is just so much unnecessary stuff... I just want to log in, look where I need to go to get good gear and start playing. To me it's like before you had 3 paths to upgrade, m+, raid and/or pvp, you chose one and just go farm it. Now I feel like I need to research wowhead to figure out how each thing relate to what, get a job inside the game for a month in order to make my character eligible for any content outside of random group content. All of that just to feel 'strong' for a couple months and poof, new patch day, back to being shit again. Not saying anything about the video, it's actually pretty good. I just wished this game was simpler to hop in, and that it respected my time playing.
@@CrizFN Not a terrible expansion, but yeah, there's too much bloat. Awakened making past raid sets "optionable" again with increased iLvL is stupid. As a returning player (been playing since launch day of BC) it's just way too much to have to juggle. The PvP and Raid content is okay, but if the devs really want us to do all of this I wish there was an in-game guide to bluntly explain it.
I’m in the same boat, I played seriously since late tbc, but now have been dropping in and out since Shadowlands, and I’m barely managing to get my head around all the new gear/upgrading systems. Coming in as a new player would be a complete nightmare. The current gearing tracks (not to mention addons and weakauras) are a complete detriment to encouraging new players to the game and have a growing, healthy community. The whole system is just to much for most to pick up and progress at an even causal level without some previous experience (or help from someone who has). Having to do a few hours research is not a great incentive to pick up a game again for even returning players.
100% agree every time I think about getting back into DF after taking a break after s1 I get so overwhelmed with all this gearing stuff. Hopefully they change this next xpac.
Hello friends. Today i did some gearing up from a 412 Ilvl character from season 1. I did some heroics, pvp quest and even a mythic 0 and got 2x 493 pieces. Then filled out the rest with pvp vendor gear to get 463 for lfr queue. Now I am 470
When doing community feast, there is also a little npc offering a quest for doing 5 feast activities, that also drops veteran track gear. I wonder if there are similar quests for grand hunt or siege of dragonbane keep. Either way it's another way to get gear besides doing the last hurrah or events themselves
@@WayneWatson1 yes, but I was also able to get a 480 illvl veteran gear from Supply Laden Soup Pot from the tuskarr quest. Don't remember though if it was a second piece of gear from community feast or whether this dropped the cache
The best part of Bullion gear is that you can get the Bullions from LFR, making highest level gear ACTUALLY accessable to us filthy casuals. NGL, this got me to keep my subscription going instead of dumping it till the War Within Prepatch.
@@Slamdoxicalzmaybe add it half way through the season or just before mdi. As long as it’s after the race for world first etc. I do enjoy the system though. ESP for the bis raid trinkets
@@wowprobeast7543yep I think they should turn bullion and the catalyst in as soon as RWF is over. And just set them with catchup so if the race takes three weeks then you would have three tier charges and be able to catch up to three bullions
You still need to upgrade it with crests from 502 to 528. So you need to do plus 2-4 for wyrms and 6+ for aspects. Even this week's 6s aren't hard so should be stupid easy in a few weeks.
My "Last Hurrah" weekly quest gave me a 350 ilvl staff. I reported this to Blizzard and they told me, that is not a bug, go away. Here's their response:
The crest weekly cap is just disappointing, it will stall so much gearing progression, I just got to the cap on the second day of the patch and I feel there is not much to do until next week, because to do harder mythic+ dungeons I need more ilvl, but I can't get more ilvl cause I already spent my 120 wyrm crests for the week.
whats stopping u from doing myth+ tho? If you did a world tour of myth 0s you should be able to do low keys at least. The crest cap does suck tho I agree. pretty easy to get to like 490 without even using crests
I hope that Ask Mr Robot gets updated so it can evaluate awakened gear too - I rely on it to tell me what my BiS is so I only upgrade what I really need to keep.
There is a new upgrade NPC right next to the AH in Valdrakken now. Another spot to upgrade that's " quicker" to get to, depending on where you load in. Also a crest vendor next it that you can convert crest from season 3 to season 4 crest, 1:1 conversion.
@@spikefinger both new NPCs are to the right of the AH, one let's you upgrade the new gear with new crest from this season, and the other is a vendor that lets u convert you S3 crest to S4 crest, 1:1 conversion.
I played with a Kelani way back in the day in a game called Runes of Magic and he had his son playing with him was named zeromalice I believe. Other than now that's the only time I've ever seen that name before. I lost contact with both of them years ago.
Trying to figure out how y’all two-healed Raz at the start of the video with a total of 216k hps between them at the end of the fight haha. I did heroic Raz last night, and we also had 15 people. We 3 healed, had 72% execution rating (obviously could be better but that’s not atrocious), and we did a total of 551k hps (more than double). How did y’all take so much less damage that y’all needed less than half of our hps to kill it lol. Was this like a 99% execution pull or something? Even still I’m amazed it’d cut the needed hps in half
always love your geraing guides! very clean and easy to understand. what i would like to see is a guide *for all the different tier sets* and how to get the skins (lfr/normal/heroic/mythic) through open world/raiding/dungeons/currencies and if I have to put them into the catalyst first and then upgrade or the other way around? its all very confusing and convoluted imo. e.g. I never played any normal raids this expansion, but for some classes I have no lfr skins, but normal and heroic tier sets unlocked.
Timewalking this week rewards a 493 item for completing the weekly quest. The Black Temple raid bosses drop high level items and the quest for completing that gave me a 503 item.
@SignsofKelani I have found a new issue. If you get a piece of gear and you spend your crests and flightstones to upgrade it like say on the veteran track and then get a piece in the same slot but is champ the crest and stone cost isn't reduced even if the champ piece is starting at a lower ilvl. THIS needs to be fixed ASAP!
Considering that Public events of Dragons isles didnt work at the catalyst for 10.0 We can assume that gear drop by publics events of 10.1 and 10.2 can be catalysted,
I know i'm late at this video but please if possible someone explain me how do i upgrade my gear at a reduced cost on main character bcos is confusing...
As a casual that just wants the shoulder tier transmog colour, what's the best option? Judging by this video, I somehow need to get the reagents and then craft the shoulders that are 506 ilvl and then put it in the catalyst.
@@thedorkone1516 thanks i found the npc you're talking about. Unfortunately the raid tier pieces aren't bullions, but they are awakened Mark of Mastery
@@Amplifymagic you found a different vendor than the bullion ones. there should be a vendor selling the mogs for bullion and not the mark of mastery. The mark of mastery is an item awarded along with a character getting the achievement for either keystone mastery / full clear of heroic raid or pvp rating 1600 (i think, i dont pvp so i could be wrong). You only get one of these per character.
Thanks for the content, nice and comprehensive as always! I have a question. Dragon Isles Emissary in Valdrakken doesn't offer the weekly quest for me. Are there any prerequisites for it?
@@warlock3691 Unfortunately, I have no quests with that NPC.. I guess it's because my gear is below "awakened" minimum required - something like 460, while I need 463. Or I need some other quest to be completed before that new one appears
The catalyst seems broken atm tbh. I have heroic tier shoulders, cant use them at all to upgrade. My cape is champion and it can be upgraded. Both came from black temple and it pisses me off xD
Hmm I are confused. Unless you meant to put “track” instead of “tier”, you won’t be upgrading that piece of gear at the catalyst any time soon. That catalyst only transforms a piece of gear from non tier to tier, it doesn’t upgrade its item level.
They made the Catalyst such a pain in the ass man. All i wanted to do is finish my LFR raid set but what tf does it matter when ill have to get lfr awakened gear to begin with. Fuck i hate this game sometimes. Its not like what i needed is even part of the tier set. I just need a cloak and belt ESPECIALLY THE FUCKING CLOAK
Why do they make this game so complicated. They’re so many currency names. This is a horrible season for new players. People who disagree probably played the entirety of DF
God I can't stand that everything is timelocked. Just let people who wants to grind be able to instead of having to wait a whole god damn week to progress.
@@byVehzoconsidering the game has been pandering to the super hardcore sweats for years, yeah I think casual players should get love. After all, if the casual players leave there goes most of the player base.
@@paly7504yea. It for sure was never a problem before when the only gear worth anything was from raids and it was only once/week and you couldn’t target farm. This is the best system in the history of WoW and people still throw fits
That's a catch-up mechanic. For example: say there are 10 total weeks people can get 1 bullion per week. Everyone gets a total of 10. If you skip 5 weeks, you can collect 5 bullion and catch up, then continue getting 1 per week after. All that changes, if you skip weeks, is the rate you collect. The end total, whatever that ends up being, is the same for everyone.
Can you get 1 bullion from each of the raid difficulties? E.g 1 from LFR, Norm etc. So in a sense you could potentially get 4 from all 4 difficulties? Only reason I ask is a mate said he got one from LFR and Normal. (Not sure I believe him) Or is it just camped 1 per week across all difficulties?
Your video is very good, but gearing just seems to complicated. I logged in, and couldnt get into any mythics dungeons because I was so much behind. I can do hc dungeons, but I get one piece every run and I need to wait around for community events, this is just too much to do for little reward
How is it complicated? I went from 441 to 480 in like 2hrs. Literally did the the weekly quest, TW dungeons, and TW raid. 480 is the min to do M0 dungeons.
@@Ralledk you only need crest and flightstones. The game tell you where to get the items. Again if you are below 480ilvl don't try to sniff M0, you will get bombed on. Continue with hc dungeons and use flightstones to up gear your gear. Tbh you are over thinking and being inpatient. You should be 480ilvl in less than 4hrs. After you hit 480 spam M0 Dawn of the Infinite Dragons..... I just gave you the whole path. Now walk.
It's not even possible to get to 521 even if you played nonstop since release of season 4 because you won't have the currency to upgrade your gear. The people who have 500+ ilvl right now are complete trash players as well because they're forgoing their tier set and losing out on major dps/hps in the process just for some + stats.
God damn this is way too fucking complicated. They need to totally rethink how these gear systems work they should be able to be explained in 2 sentences. "You get gear from doing raids and dungeons" "You get gear from doing PvP events like world pvp, BGs, and arena" Like what the fuck is even happening in this game I have no idea.
Damn. No. Nah I'ma pass. I though I wanted to play wow again but this is just ridiculous. Way too complex, convoluted. Returning player like me is just overwhelmed by all this nonsense.
Preference. I played male tauren, but it is just too large so switched it to female. There is something about nelf and belf males that I dont like so when I play those races I play female. For orc, before the upright orc I just prefered the posture of female orcs and the same applies to trolls. Humans are pretty cool either way. Dwarf male only, no one wants to be reminded of their Mom in a video game. Goblin is whatever, male is better imo and same for Undead. Draenei is a similar issue as tauren male. Gnome male looks more comical so it is a more popular choice I think. So overall, there is nothing weird about playing female/bodytype 2 characters. It really comes down to how you prefer to play the game, how armor looks on it and as long as it doesnt hinder gameplay, it does not matter what people choose. Also stop implying that this shows some sort of creepiness. It doesnt. If you prefer male characters then that’s good for you. Some might find that choice strange for their own reasons
@@nomnomNACHOin a 3rd person game like wow it is more understandable then in a 1st person game like CoD. Fps games are more sus. I would have to say that if you have to stare at your characters butt all day and you choose only male characters then maybe that says something interesting about you.
Soy boys do that. Not sure about others, but looking at your toon's butt while playing is sus, period. I'm too busy watching everything going on and where I'm going to be staring at a cartoon's butt
How the fk do I upgrade items bought with bullion? Its 1/12 or 1/14 and at upgrade vendors where you upgrade every items I cant upgrade this awakened item. Do we have a special vendor for that or what? people running around with 12/12 already, dont know how should I upgrade them.
Pausing when you have the currency tab open…no elemental overflow and there’s still 6 different currencies to keep track of. I think that’s such bad design. It’s just so over complicated for no reason other than being over complicated. Especially as someone who is new or returning… why is WoW so obsessed with bloating itself?
I played for a few months at the start of the expansion, came back at the start of April. Farmed some crests and flight stones and some gear, logged in this week and crests are gone lol. Obviously because it's a new season but man if you don't keep up with this stuff it's a pain in the ass. I'd no idea about the dates I just log in and arse around for a bit and log out. Easy enough to get back up to speed though thankfully, videos like this are super useful as its a bit of a currency soup right now and gear dropping at all sorts of levels depending on what quests or whatever you decide to do. Really messy systems build up over the course of an expansion and there's no chance blizzard are going to help returning players to understand it lol.
what ilvl bracket is unlocking the Heroic recolours of the raid tier set? Can I achieve that by upgrading the gear or do i have to get the right "track" item to earn the heroic recolours by the catalyst?
@@furkantopaloglu8918 if he means the catalyst, doesn’t that mean now in Season 4 it’s 506+ ilvl that grants you Heroic tier? I can’t imagine getting Season 3 gear now and converting it so easily at that low ilvl now in S4.
Hey there. Do we loose all our flightstones and crests with this new season 4? Also, are we unable to upgrade gear from season 3? I've been away for awhile
Yes and yes. Everyone started with 0 flightstones and 0 crests once S4 began. You cannot upgrade S3 gear anymore, but S3 gear that could be used in the catalyst to convert to tier gear can still be done and this time they wont consume a charge
Im gonna chill until next content. I dont like spending so muchtime to gear but thats me tbh. I log in for the monthly rewards and log out. Plunderstormnwas fun because of the disconnect from my other characters and rewarded cosmetics
