Gear should match effort, and be enough to get into the next level of difficulty. Nothing more, and definitely not something a normal/heroic raider should seek just for the set bonus or (as they put it) transformative trinkets. Also, without the set bonus the gear ceases to be a tier set and as such deserves a separate appearance (along with the fact that it will be on par with h5m, and tier look-a-likes dropping in them would just be awkward).
Of course, they shouldn't feel like they ought to hold back on gear appearance just for it being on the level of heroic 5 mans. I do like a few of the sets though, so it will be worth the transmog runs.
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If you don't raid, you don't need raid gear. You want it. Why? To complete the content you do quicker. You don't need it to succeed in what you are doing if you are not raiding. It just makes whatever you are doing faster. That's how I see it.
I'm so confused about this whole thing. The gear that drops in LFR is of a quality that aligns with its difficulty. It's easier than Flex, so its ilvl is lower. Seems reasonable to me.
Many people that run LFR have no wish to do research outside the game to optimize their DPS, and many of the trinkets in SoO, for instance, cause stat weights to change, rotations to change, talent choices to change, and just general chaos. It's fun to change things up for people that already know what they're doing and know where to look for info (assuming they care to look for info at all). Just have LFR give trinkets with a static primary stat that proc an increase in your mastery or haste or crit for 20 seconds or something. That gives a meaningful upgrade path with very simple criteria to determine if a new trinket or other piece of gear is truly an upgrade. Adding in attractive upgrades that don't force a casual or new player to alter their playstyle to maximize their DPS because of a single trinket with an odd mechanic seems reasonable.
Not sure why people are so unhappy that they're losing set bonuses in LFR that historically increase DPS by only a few percent. If the argument is that you don't get armor that looks like the current tier's armor, I can see some frustration about that. Maybe Blizzard should add in a way for non-raiders to get transmog tier gear outside of raiding. That doesn't really bother me as a progression raider. Also, running LFR and flex for weeks on end to get AoC while you're progressing in heroic content sucks. Glad they're reducing the number of upgrade paths to prevent burnout.
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I played wow really casually at the end and I wanted gear. Why? Because I didn't want to spend 20 minutes doing a set of dailies I had already done 50 times when I could do it in 10 minutes with better gear. Why else? Because the better my gear, the more the "soloing old content" door opened up. Why else? Because the better my gear, the more achievement's I could hunt.
If the only way to get decent gear is raid, that's just like asking casual players to not go back to wow.
This amounts to what I was going to say.
Literally? No, non-raiders don't need raid gear. But the question is never really about the raid gear itself, it's about progression. Blizzard themselves have mentioned how ridiculously small a percentage of the playerbase actually raids on a regular basis. Why are they the only ones that get progression? Blizzard's being really stubborn on the issue, and so far it seems like it will be the one thing to ultimately date the game. Just because the majority of the players don't put all their time and effort into a very specific part of the game, doesn't mean they don't put time and effort into it.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutesOr should I?
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I disagree.
Here's why:
In WoW, there is no "raid gear".
There are only two types of gear: PvP gear and PvE gear.
That's it.
PvE includes all non PvP activities: Soloing, farming, questing, in stanching, and scenario-ing.
PvP includes all PvP activities: World PvP, arena, BGs, rated BGs.
WoW is, at it's core, an RPG where character growth features prominently. Character power growth is mostly through gear. PvE gear helps improve your character in all PvE things. PvP gear helps improve your character in all PvP things. Sometimes, there is overlap (for example, a bit enough ilvl upgrade PvP piece can sometimes make your character more powerful than an older PvE piece you have.)
Until Blizzard makes gear specific to 5 mans (a "Dungeon Set 2.0" model), soloing, ect., then there is only PvE and PvP gear.
Anyone that wants to do PvE, and progress their character doing so, needs/wants PvE gear upgrades, and it makes sense to give a way to progress and upgrade their gear.
Your OP statement is a lot like saying: "if you don't do arena or rated BGs, you don't need arena/rated BG gear."
People that participate in random BGs and world/city PvP would beg to differ.
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I don't "need" raid gear because I don't raid. However having better gear does make it easier to solo old content, do dailys, farm, kill stuff in general. If the spec snowflakes need me not to have their precious gear then sure, I do enjoy my life and while WoW is part of that life, it is not my entire life.
Not really, I mean if I can go into the next tier of raid and do it then I would be fine, but seeing as most LFR folks will never step foot in anything above LFR they don't need the next tier of gear, personally after looking on here and on the official forums and even the hearthstone forums I am finding Blizzard game players to be a bunch of whine asses who don't want to do what is required to get the rewards.
Last edited by Seefer; 2014-05-05 at 02:39 AM.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people - Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the actual state of the game you need gear from some difficulty for higher difficulty. Wanting it is another thing but there are cases where you need gear.
If they removed gear I would probably quit as I wouldn't feel my character progressing, and I think this is quite a big part of the game just like leveling is (I don't like it but still).
Apart from that I don't think that you need raid gear if you don't raid though it's convenient for other things. But anyway you don't need tier gear to solo old content and everything. LFR is still going to drop gear (at twice the rate it seems), it just won't be tier. It looks like the gear's ilvl is going to be just a bit higher than 5m heroic, if you don't get tier in 5m heroic I don't see why you would get it in LFR.