Originally Posted by
Soluna
What a load of bullshit, just like Preach. There is an incentive, many in fact, to raid mythic. First of all, the prestige that comes from getting cutting edge, and famed title. Then the mythic only amazing looking sets, compared to the watered down versions of normal/lfr/hc. The items dropped on mythic are base 415, so it takes much less luck to get 425 pieces on mythic, than spamming m+. I've been doing tons of m+ this season, yet no piece has titanforged above 410. Most of my gear is raid gear that is 415-420 with from BoD mythic.
The occasional mount, and how early you get it compared to everyone else. There is prestige in that too, and if you say that well, ppl can farm it 2 expansions from now, well so what? I can just get a new amazing mythic boss mount from 10.2 patch raid and I will still be just as cool looking.
The Azerite pieces you receive from BoD are 415 with potential 420 ilvl once you earn higher levels of azerite power, which should be pretty easy soon with the artifact knowledge gains weekly.
The feeling of co-operating with 19 other people to do amazing strategies, and beat mythic exclusive mechanics. I found it pretty fun that we had to use two resto totems for our strat for Jaina mythic, the demonology warlock niche in the intermission for their insane damage, priest mind controlling the kul tirans to throw them off ship. All these things could happen on HC also, but no one ever does them, because frankly, it is not needed.
So there you have it, there are still 4-5 incentives to do mythic raiding, and I feel like it's at its most rewarding stage at this point of the game. Preach just makes stupid videos and creates controversy in the community just to rake in the cash, and you are all victims of his nostalgic words and shit. I can name you a few cool items if you like from this expansion for me personally.
- Giga-Charged Shoulderpads > Mekkatorque shoulders with near PERFECT traits for literally all warlock specs. As a warlock main, I will never forget either the azerite traits this item offered us, neither it's awesome name, cause it's GIGA.
- Opulence Trinket > You know what it does, it's a troublemaker, but it's also a trinket that makes your dps skyrocket. It's by far the strongest trinket for casters at the moment, if utilised well within the group.
- Balefire Branch > The trinket I farm every tier as a warlock, due to its sheer power. My Demon Commander could never be more thankful, dealing nearly 1 million dmg himself to jaina during intermission, thanks to this bad boy.
- Ignition Mage's Fuse > Trinket that gives you haste till you feel like a god. It has helped me squeeze in the 8th crashing chaos chaos bolt more times than I can count during infernal cds. I do not play troll, so I don't have berserking, and this trinket is POG for me.
- Crown of the Seducer > Another Opulence item, an interesting crown with gems that give you 1 fun effect, 2 useful ones, and a bunch of useless effects. I love the health pot one personally, as I find intellect potions a lot more useful than the sapphire of brilliance, but even that is pretty nice. The shrinking one gave us some good laughs on Mekkatorque HC.
- Fogbreaker, Light of the Sea > This item has helped many of our guild members reduce the Howling Winds effect on Jaina intermission, which was pretty useful for some of our weaker links to dodge the orbs created by icebound images, leading to an overall smoother progression once acquired for quite a few of our members.
A ton of great items are coming next raid, in Crucible of the Storms, with fun effects, some of which seem pretty strong and will be definitely remembered for some time. So yeah, I don't know what you are talking about, but so far, there have been some super interesting items from dungeons and BoD. Uldir was a bit boring items-wise, but so has been literally every entry raid ever. I am pretty sure there are a bunch of items like plumage or Harlan's rolling dice that melee dpsers appreciate too, or the purgatory-like effect from Bwonsamdi's bargain from tanks, etc, that many like, but I just cannot appreciate them as I focus on casters. I conclude that both Preach and you, a Preach bot, are just overreacting and need to find a new game, as you are both tired from WoW. His thumbnail, while funny, oddly represents the amount of stupidity that Preach has in his head in my opinion, if he actually believes all the bullshit he has been spreading.