Originally Posted by
Tiev
Huh, no they didn't. Absolutely no guilds in my realm vetted recruitment of players based on them not having Pauldrons of Stockades. None. Zilch.
This was a reality at the beginning of the expansion up to the point where I took a break. This is how guilds operate these days and WoW devs, not working on a vacuum, have to take these things into consideration. If they want to have legendaries that are RNG based they should either make them so Rare that no guild expects their player to have one or not that big of an impact on your performance. They're going with the latter approach, apparently. Hopefully it works, but this WAS a problem at the start.