Why do you have to deal with it every week? Your guild downed Heroic Garrosh months ago. Sure you'll probably want to get upgrades here or there, but I can't even imagine that anyone in your guild would expect you to full upgrade your gear at this point.
Just doing SoO will give you 560 valor a week, enough to fully upgrade an item. If you go into Patch 5.4.8 with 3k valor you can upgrade 6 items. Now assuming you're using an offhand, that leaves you ten items to upgrade. Those items will take you 9 weeks to upgrade completely. Now if you want to speed it up a little bit, you can spend thirty minutes a week grinding Heroic Scenarios (seriously, try it. Grab three BiS DPS and you can knock out 3 scenarios in no more than 20-30 minutes). Otherwise, without any additional effort you'll finish upgrading in 9 weeks. If your guild really needs you to upgrade before that point...well I don't even know what to say in that case.
Considering his sig stating he's in a top 50 US guild with Garrosh heroic down, I think he knows about high-end raiding. And the fact you seem to think max level raiders don't keep improving and farming for true BiS shows you don't know anything about it.
Even if they weren't selling off carries or staying on top of their game for the next expansion, or just getting BiS for slightly faster leveling next expansion... Some people just like being the best they can possibly be.
Ok, that's fine but how does the item upgrade impact you all that much? That you'll "need" to farm up a bit of VP each week outside of raiding in order to cap your 1k VP and make sure you upgrade your items as much as possible? Its not like that's a big time commitment, particularly if you already have a bunch of timeless isle coins you can spend instead of your time.
Its also completely your choice to do that, since you've been farming H SoO for months now obviously the item upgrades aren't going to do anything except speed up those runs. Those faster runs will also offset the small amount of time outside of raiding that you need to farm up the extra VP. I'd also hardly call not capping your VP weekly to maximize these new upgrades "slacking off and not trying" but I get that you want to maximize your character, go for ranks, or whatever. However, the extra effort to cap VP outside of raiding is going to be ridiculously small, particularly once they add in the timeless isle coin trade-in.
A blanket SoO nerf would change nothing for you but speed up your clears, while this isn't quite as convenient even though the extra effort needed is going to be minimal, so I get why you'd prefer the former. However, doing it this way, in my opinion, is much better for many more players and a minor inconvenience for you at best.
Indeed. You sound like your guild's bitch. The time needed to respec 2-4 times per raid (potentially more) along with the gold required to do all that shit must be insane. No druid plays 4 specs. Not even druids in world 1-10 guilds. Your guild is just using you hard and laughing, while the other potential tanks / healers / dps sit and go "good, i dont have to dps, this little bitch will do that job for me"
Brought it on yourself, simply put.
Actually it's your comprehension that is lacking. YOU are failing to grasp the concept of context.
In the context of the sentence in which it was used the phrase "we're done" means "we're done with progression" not "we're done with doing the instance entirely".
If you take every phrase completely out of context and use its absolute literal meaning then the world must not make a lot of sense to you.
This is a topic close to my heart means it is point of discussion, an abstract, that is in close physical proximity to the muscle that pumps blood round my body.
Do you have any actual points to the discussion to add now that that's out of the way or are you going to continue to attack the way people write instead of focusing on the topic they are writing about?
Last edited by klogaroth; 2014-05-17 at 01:24 PM.
there are people in full 574 gear that is struggeling with siegecrafter - garrosh, thus being 582 instead will provide a progression path for them, for people who have cleared the raid for 4 months ago it doesn't really matter.
yes it will inflate dps rankings, but what does those even matter.
Blizzard is only doing this to give you the illusion of "content" don't fool yourselves, as for the upgrades it sucks but not much can be done about as blizz is quite adamanent in doing bullshit stuff all the time and calling it "exciting" "content" or worse "immersion".