Mythic Loot Idea

[Daffan]

epics stop being epic a long time ago. people just need to get over it.

bro jus cause your running those blues!

[Lolsteak]

Why is also why you should have no objection to this idea.

Which is why there should be no change in the first place, putting extra work onto the developers which is basically a useless change is pointless.

[Deleted]

Which is why there should be no change in the first place, putting extra work onto the developers which is basically a useless change is pointless.

EXTRA WORK.. Haha.. Changing 1 line of code - because that's what it is.

[Morbownz]

So after a few posts I realised that this is probably the best way to go about itemization.
Epics do not feel epic anymore. And since we cannot take them away because at the end of the day that would make a lot of the playerbase leave if purples are replaced with blues, I came up with the idea of giving the next expansion's (new) raiding tier an upgrade.

I am talking about a purely aesthetic change: give that epic feel back, call the gear mythic. Give it a red label. So when you truly get an item of this value, you feel rewarded. It will not in any way take anything away from the current player base.

It is a minor change that will not affect gameplay whatsoever - but will give hardcore raiders an edge in terms of item-satisfaction. Remove the Heroic/mythic green text label. Since with the war/thunderforged we are getting a bit too many labels and actually make a small purely aesthetic revamp - to truly give the hardcore base a feel for the items they are getting.

INB4 Special Snowflake; INB4 Elitist

TL;DR: Mythic content red label proposal

One of things that made epics "epic" back in the day was itemization. The myth that its just a colour isn't completely accurate, there was a little more to it.
You could level a caster dps class in vanilla and get to 60 having less than 100 Spell Damage, when you finally got to the high level instances (level 55+) you'd start to see Spell Damage items. By the time you'd completed MC and farmed other dungeons you were getting closer to having 3-400 Spell damage and even higher. Your character became noticably more powerful. This is where that epic feeling came from, the purples meant more power and survival. Outside of raiding you were in blues and your characters progress slowed down drastically... unless of course you were PvP'ing.

In TBC and Wotlk (especially) Itemization changed to give people an easier time progressing in their first raiding tier. So, blues had similar stats to raid items only in smaller amounts, but the feeling of epicness went away with that. I remember playing my Rogue and just being shocked at how good some of the Blues were in TBC compared to Vanilla. I went on to gear very quickly in Karazhan and it wasnt exciting anymore. However... they had created the "new Epic", these were the epic items that dropped in any tier that were just godly... DST for example. It still hurts inside when I think back to TBC and never seeing it drop... ever.

How to re-establish it? I am out of touch with the new raiding scene, I've always thought that they made loot extremely boring after Wotlk, spells just seemed buffed in away that Scaling seemed to slow down and gear felt less crucial to success and those "godly" items stopped existing.

[Morros]

Why is also why you should have no objection to this idea.

As long as it's pink.

[Deleted]

Touche. its really only trinkets that are like that though. I dont understand why they make trinkets such a key part of your spec or DPS. They really just need to make trinkets in general less powerful

no. Trinkets should be the things that change your rotation, make you build your character around them.

[Traveler Voltin]

bro jus cause your running those blues!

wtf are you talking about?

[Sierra85]

make everything green for the first tier
make everything blue for the second tier
make everything purple for the final tier

[Traveler Voltin]

make everything green for the first tier
make everything blue for the second tier
make everything purple for the final tier

better solution remove all gear above white color.

[Sierra85]

better solution remove all gear above white color.

remove all color, raid in black and white. no shades of grey.

[Traveler Voltin]

remove all color, raid in black and white. no shades of grey.

remove all gear. raid in underwear. its all about skill right?

[Deleted]

It's not a bad idea, I'd anticipate it, if they decided to implement it

[Lolsteak]

EXTRA WORK.. Haha.. Changing 1 line of code - because that's what it is.

Irrelevant, it's completely unnecessary.

[Terridon]

snipl

One brought the good point up of you people not being bothered that your paycheck isn't in another color, when you get it.
You should focus more on different colors on paychecks/house/car.
Why is it that in the game it's suddenly so very important to have another color on something that people won't see anyway. They see the color of the gear your char is wearing, and it already have a special snowflake color.
Or would you use legendary lfr-gear even though your boring purple HC items would be better, if they had that? <.<