Best patch note, ever. If you don't like this change, my condolences.
Best patch note, ever. If you don't like this change, my condolences.
I do have 2 issues with it, even if personal loot does have it's advantage..
1: RPers. There are a lot of people RPing female characters who wear leather, mail or plate who would love to dress some of those robes, but no longer can't.
2: It limits transmog collection in some cases. Someone brought up that as a rogue, you can no longer get "Off-hand", nor ranged weapons (Bow/Crossbow/Guns) - which is bit of an annoyance as they can actually collect their transmog bits that way.
You don't. You're guaranteed a piece of loot when soloing lower level dungeons, so now your loot table goes from a potential 5-10 to 1-3 available items per class.
The only real disadvantage is not being able to collect all weapons on a warrior if that's the only thing you're interested in
Can't 100% guarantee since I didn't test the PTR, but I'm fairly certain this change is for random groups through the dungeon finder since lowbie dungeons have been group loot and had issues with everyone just rolling need on items regardless of usability. I'd imagine you could go into a dungeon solo or in a manually formed group and set the loot system to whatever you want, allowing transmog and acquisition of items typically not on your loot table.
If you prefer to level via dungeons, it might actually help getting loot that's genuinely useful and help negate scenarios where, for example, an intellect ring drops and everyone including the strength/agility players roll need... which happens pretty often.
Last edited by exochaft; 2018-01-16 at 07:34 AM.
Here's the thing though. Level 15-60 dungeons were converted to forced personal loot quite a while ago (although for whatever reason it only works in Eastern Kingdoms dungeons for me).
And by forced, I do mean that you cannot manually switch to group loot.
But it's still a far more efficient way of farming transmog than the group loot dungeons.
The only issue I've found is that rings, necks and cloaks are now available for all classes and specs, so getting transmog loot off of bosses like Emperor Thaurissan who drops all 3 in addition to a trinket for melee is somewhat annoying.
Well let me clarify then. Personal loot makes it considerably easier for completionists to collect all transmog available to all classes assuming they have at least a one of any clothie, a rogue for agility daggers, a hunter for ranged weapons and a warrior/paladin.
Of those, only rogue and hunter are unique in their access to certain weapon types, but those 4 will allow you to collect anything.
Remove warrior and only take paladin in plate. Chlothies don't share their weapon types, so if you roll a priest, you won't get int swords, if you roll a WL you won't get int maces. Warrior won't get them either, so go with pally.
And I´m not sure, if there are any leather/mail int only items left in the vanilla/tbc/wrath loot table. If there are, you need a shaman/druid for that. But the druid should be able to get agi daggers too, so no need for a rogue.
The transmog team then would be cloth, druid, hunter(+shaman), paladin. Any loot you can't get with this team apart from tier sets?
So actually it will be harder to complete it. Good luck getting that int plate item that was made for holy paladins. If you don't have a paladin. And god forbid your agility sword user wants a strength weapon(survival hunter) And god forbid you play a feral druid. FERALS CANT equip daggers. Yet its their artifact is fucking daggers.
Unless they also change that this patch.
Source for feral and dagger, as I gave up on ferals since it sucks: http://www.wowhead.com/item=29346/feltooth-eviscerator Notice no feral listed.
These day's Im washed, playing VRchat instead.
I believe druids are unable to get agility daggers. I realize their artifact is a dagger, but druids aren't normally able to dual wield. It's why they've used 2h maces, staves and polearms exclusively in previous expansions.
That said, I agree with the paladin for covering whatever weapon type the clothie can't wield, but the clothie class still doesn't matter.
I'd personally go with a mage for portals
Lower level gear still acts with the single main stat system afaik...
I had this cloak on my Hunter untill 4 months ago, and he got intellect from it. http://www.wowhead.com/item=40723/di...-of-the-kumiho
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