what a terrible change!
Unless there is a blue post confirming this I would't worry too much: Loot in the first week of m+ always was reduced to heroic levels in the weekly chest and even less in the instance. Only when mythic raiding opened the itemlevel was increased.
So that's most likely what you are seeing on the PTR.
why did you all forget that blizzard also capped the gear the first week from season 1 to 2. And this is more then likely just the same cap on gear transition into season 3 ?
the issue with no gear is that people won't run it - if you look back to Challenge Modes in MOP and WOD - people really only ran them for the titles, mounts, or transmog.. and when they did run them they were usually carries..
So to be straightforward: M+ became awesome when the gearing was a factor, the carrot on a stick.. take that away brother - M+ would LITERALLY be completely dead
Mythic+ Or any other repeatable content should not give you rewards on par with heroic raiding, much less mythic raiding. If relative item level is indeed nerfed, that is a great change for the game.
too bad there's still titanforging left there, all the m+s ive done and ive yet to receive a 425 from my mains weekly cache or a base 410 weapon waiting for the time when titanforging is remove from it also, so i dont have to keep doing it in the small hopes of upgrading my gear.
Exactly. This makes running M+ absolutely pointless past one single weekly +10 to get a halfway decent amount of
residuum.
The leaderboards will essentially be limited to Mythic Raiders, and running high level keys will be absolutely pointless outside of a neglectable amount of residuum, as the minuscele chance of titanforging won't even matter when the base itemlvl is at 420...
If you raid at least heroic, there will be absolutely zero reason to ever enter m+ - which is pretty stupid.