Originally Posted by
Gloriandus
I am quite frustrated with T21 at the moment. I only ran ToS in Normal, so my Tier pieces were 900-905. Recently I started raiding Heroic, and have been gearing up in Normal and Heroic Antorus.
All the time in the Ret Discord people are told to "sim it", and I do. With all the other items being the same (945+ Antorus neck, ring, wrist, Pantheon at 955, Eye of Command at 960, and all Ret DPS legendaries at 1000), the Heroic T21 4pc (952 overall), actually sims 3k lower for me than wearing my much lower T20 4pc with T21 2pc (944 overall).
Now, a sim is just a sim, and a 3k DPS difference is minuscule, so it's a push. But why would I use the "better", much higher pieces if there's no appreciable sim difference, plus in practice I'm able to retain both the smoother gameplay of the T20 bonus and the big hit of T21's 40% Judgment bonus?
Shouldn't higher iLvl always be better, especially when the Tier items are 25-45 item levels better? It's bizarre. Tier gripes will be a moot in Battle for Azeroth, of course, but the expac won't be here for a good while.