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    Quote Originally Posted by Jtbrig7390 View Post
    Yes because its Raid Tier.

    There will still be Tier Gear as well just no set bonus.
    Pretty much this^ Tier gear will still exist just not have the bonuses it once had.. Which when you look at it is a very good idea as many an item that was far and away superior was put in the bank or disenchanted because it broke the tier bonus..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zmago View Post
    I think you have it all backwards...
    it is not the item set that gave the raid a the word tier and the numerical value; it's the other way around.
    Might misunderstand you, but... The Tier numbers came from Blizzard, assigned to the sets with set boni, the first Tier came from the first released raid, the second from the second released raid... aside from exceptions like AQ dropping a "non-Tier/mini-Tier" set, and recently Highmaul and EN dropping recolors, while BRF and NH dropped the actual tier, and ToV being actually non-Tier, but with complete Transmog sets...

    Either way, I believe players will continue to call the Transmog sets from BfA+ raids by incrementing "Tier" numbers, even if Blizzard uses some other nomenclature, either internally (and then datamined) or officially.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Meat Rubbing Specialist View Post
    Raid Tiers will still always be referred to as Tiers. Tier Sets are literally just sets from a Tier and had Zero contribution to the fact they are called Raid Tiers. Which instead comes from the Ilvl of said Raid.

    I.e. Raid Tier 10 was Ilvl 251-284 thus Items that fell into that category were part of that Tier.
    This, the word heroic lost meaning for 5 mans but we'll still use it

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    It would be nice for clarity.

    With the screwy way Blizzard is releasing raids now, without clarity, people would call Emerald Nightmare, Trial of Valor, and The Nighthold three different tiers, when they were one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meat Rubbing Specialist View Post
    They are called "TIER SETS" because they are a SET that is obtained within a TIER. It's isn't a hard concept to understand. Well..not for most.

    It's why Dungeons have "Dungeon sets". Having Sets in a Tier is irrelevant to it being a Tier.

    Do people not know English or know what a Tier is?
    it seems that it is not that ppl dont understand english. it seems way more to me, that you dont understand some stuff here.

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    This is actually a very good question. I think tiers will go a way of the past, though it may take a full expac to do so
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    As far as I understand they're just going to drop the set bonuses off of specific pieces of equipment and try to make the bonuses available on another way. We will definitely see different raid-tier-bound bonuses in the future. Furthermore it doesn't matter if a raid-tier has a tier-set or not to be called raid-tier.

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    Raid Tiers were never named after the Tier Sets. They'll keep being called by their number.

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    To me the "tier" always reffered to the raid system: You had multiple raids, some of them with small itemlvl jumps, some of them with bigger jumps. I assume BfA will still have 2 or 3 big jumps in itemlvl, but more than 3 raid instances total, so grouping them into tiers will still make sense.
    Sets, in my head, were always more of a sympton of tiers not the cause for them.
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    Now that it has sunk in.. I fully accept the removal of tierbonusses. In fact I'm looking forward to min-maxing the stats. I'm hoping for additional (cosmetic) drops in raids to still have that extra incentive to do raidcontent. Maybe extra mounts, pets, toys or exclusive transmog gear (like the sets we got from the original garrison in WoD)

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    We won't get tier bonus pieces, but tiers will still be distinguished through their appearances and higher stat gear.

    Ergo, I think they'll still be called tiers of raids.

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