Do you start a new character if your first 5 legendaries are bad?

[Deleted]

Hey guys,

[edit] i realised my mistake already. With your 3-4-5... etc legendaries having same chance to drop the question makes no sense.

I am new to this legendary system but from what i gathered the consensus is that the more legendaries you have the longer to wait for the next one. I can somewhat relate to it since i have 5 and thats exactly what i experienced.
Now i am quite a competitive person and although i started expansion late i "play to win" and reaching maximum available ilvl there is not much else to do but smooth your rotation to top logs. Now that would be rather hard without bis legs.
Should i abandon my rogue of 10 years and create another one just to have a chance to get ok legends?

Did anyone try deleting legendaries? Does it help?

(my current ones are prydaz, valeera, symbiot, sephuz and cloak)

[Dalheim]

Short reply: No.

[Phookah]

1st legendary has the best chance of dropping. 2nd has a decreased chance compared to the 1st. 3rd legendary and beyond share the same base drop rate.

So no.

This is all commonly known information available on these very forums, I suggest looking before starting threads.

[slime]

I'd say no. If you were gonna do that you should've around two bad ones or three bad ones in a row. now its likely all you have left are the good ones, you've gotten the painful part out of the way. No one is guaranteeing you will get anything better on a reroll just wasted time.

And no, deleting legendaries doesn't help.

[Pallamouna]

Are you mazochist? Delete the lengs and start a new one??????????

[Knaar]

If you want, just play casually on a second toon until you get 2. Maybe with huge luck you'll get both bis After 2 it's pointless.

[Deleted]

1st legendary has the best chance of dropping. 2nd has a decreased chance compared to the 1st. 3rd legendary and beyond share the same base drop rate.

Sorry, i must've overlooked it. Makes sense.

[Aeula]

No. Once I've gotten my two legendaries I'm happy. Regardless of how good they are. Unless those legendaries try to force me to adapt to a new rotation or worse, have a hideous visual effect that you can't turn off (Like that neck that gives you a shield).

[Orangetai420]

3rd legendary and beyond share the same base drop rate.

So no.

/thread right here

[Demetrion]

Short reply: No.

Long reply: Nooooooooooooooooooooo.

[Ealyssa]

Just as a confirmation : the answer is "no"

[fiestatastic]

If you hit 5 bad ones just keep going, you have the bad ones so can look forward to the good ones in the future.

I do stop playing chars (and have deleted one) if the first one they get is bad, you get that one so quickly that the time investment to level a new character and get its first legendary is shorter than the likelihood of continuing to grind on the character you already wasted the first legendary chance on. Plus it's fresh, not much time invested on AP or anything. Luck was crappy and the time commitment to pursue further legendaries on that character ramps up.

But 5, no way, you're put a lot of time into that character, probably have a lot of AP on it, I wouldn't dump that.

[Sithalos]

Why do people still think that this is even remotely worth doing?

[Zyky]

1st legendary has the best chance of dropping. 2nd has a decreased chance compared to the 1st. 3rd legendary and beyond share the same base drop rate.

So no.

This is all commonly known information available on these very forums, I suggest looking before starting threads.

No this isn't information, its crap Blizzard wants you to believe is true.

Two examples, same situation. My guild has a hunter who literally does nothing but show up to raids got 2 legendaries in 3 days(his 5th and 6th), we also have an alt who got 2 in 4 days of each other with 1 mythic+ run on this alt and hasn't touched raids with the exception of 1 LFR Emerald Nightmare Clear was his 4th and 5th Legendary. Meanwhile a main mage, with 3 maxed out weapons, 500 mythic+(mostly 9-13) runs done over the last 3 weeks, 3 heroic Nighthold clears, 3 weeks of killing 4/10M Nighthold, and of course emissaries daily just got his 6th yesterday after 5 weeks since his last one.

Blizzard can say the system is working however they want, but its not actually working the way they're telling the players. And people like you spreading these lies doesn't help the community at all, it just causes more time for Blizzard to come up with another lie as to how the system doesn't work.

[ComputerNerd]

No this isn't information, its crap Blizzard wants you to believe is true.

Two examples, same situation. My guild has a hunter who literally does nothing but show up to raids got 2 legendaries in 3 days(his 5th and 6th), we also have an alt who got 2 in 4 days of each other with 1 mythic+ run on this alt and hasn't touched raids with the exception of 1 LFR Emerald Nightmare Clear was his 4th and 5th Legendary. Meanwhile a main mage, with 3 maxed out weapons, 500 mythic+(mostly 9-13) runs done over the last 3 weeks, 3 heroic Nighthold clears, 3 weeks of killing 4/10M Nighthold, and of course emissaries daily just got his 6th yesterday after 5 weeks since his last one.

Blizzard can say the system is working however they want, but its not actually working the way they're telling the players. And people like you spreading these lies doesn't help the community at all, it just causes more time for Blizzard to come up with another lie as to how the system doesn't work.

Two examples do not prove anything.
Players determined to bash blizzard will seek out any example which does not "fit", which by the nature of RNG isn't proof of anything.
Any time blizzard doesn't give an answer a player wants, they are lying apparently.

There hasn't been reason before to reroll any time you were less than BiS.
There isn't a reason now.
Just silly people who will then complain about the consequences if they do.
About how they are "forced" to do it.

[Lochton]

I would say, no.

You would waste so much time doing so. As well, I have a hard time seeing 5 legendaries to be bad, they can always be used in one way or the other.

[Zyky]

Two examples do not prove anything.
Players determined to bash blizzard will seek out any example which does not "fit", which by the nature of RNG isn't proof of anything.
Any time blizzard doesn't give an answer a player wants, they are lying apparently.

There hasn't been reason before to reroll any time you were less than BiS.
There isn't a reason now.
Just silly people who will then complain about the consequences if they do.
About how they are "forced" to do it.

Its people like you, in multiple threads who keep feeding the shit up players asses, the fact go beyond my 2 instances of personal experience. You can look on ANY forum, be it here, bnet forums, wowhead forums, it don't matter, its all the same this isn't an isolated issue, its widespread. You say players aren't forced, yet blizzard tunes content around them, so yes it is indeed forced.

[Armourboy]

Its people like you, in multiple threads who keep feeding the shit up players asses, the fact go beyond my 2 instances of personal experience. You can look on ANY forum, be it here, bnet forums, wowhead forums, it don't matter, its all the same this isn't an isolated issue, its widespread. You say players aren't forced, yet blizzard tunes content around them, so yes it is indeed forced.

No it's really not. If you've got nothing but bad just keep chugging, there is nothing left but the good ones. Short of the occasional outliers, which will happen in any system, the first two come pretty quick, the ones after that come at fairly regular intervals. Yes you will get someone occasionally that gets some seriously lucky RNG and pops the 5th, 6th, and 7th all pretty quick, but looking across several guilds I run things with, we can usually guess when its about time for someone to get the next one. It may be about a week or two longer than we think it should be, but very rarely have I seen someone run a ton of stuff and not have what should be about the appropriate number compared to everyone else.

Now if you did a crap ton of stuff very early on, your number of runs and things are going to skew the norm, because the system was different at the start and they were artificially limiting the number you could get. Since all of those changes however, I myself have been getting them at a pretty steady pace on my main. The alts all get two pretty quick with pretty limited play time.

As far as good or bad ones, rerolling isn't going to help that, in fact if you have that many bad ones already it would be pretty foolish to now start over. Now you know you will get good ones, while rerolling may do nothing more than you ending with two characters with nothing but bad ones.

[Zyky]

No it's really not. If you've got nothing but bad just keep chugging, there is nothing left but the good ones.

The fact of the matter is it should have never been this way in the first place. There should have never been legendaries that were 80k increases and then legendaries that were only stat stick upgrades giving top 5% over a perfect itemized piece. The whole system was garbage and the fact that it takes 4-8 weeks on average to get a new one and then you get ANOTHER bad one. That is whats driving people to unsub. The fact that we're now 7 months in and they're tuning Mythic Raiding around having 2 dps increasing legendaries and there are people who don't have either of their best two who have been doing content regularly since launch, that's bullshit. You can paint whatever picture you want, the paint is still made of shit.

[Rudkobing]

Start a new character to get new gear?

HAHAHAHA

Nope.