Blood Elves were based on a STRONG request from a poll of Asian players where many remarked on the Horde side that they and their girlfriends wanted a non-creepy femme race to play (Source)
I'm not entitled, it is what it is. Of course I don't think I should have the same gear on alts as I do on my main. But on top of not having the ilvl, the gear optimization, the azerite trait optimization and the neck level (all of which I could power through with enough playtime), I also have alts way behind on the cloak. That is fine, I haven't earned it on the alts. But what it adds up to is not playing alts because it's not fun being that many weeks behind on something that is so throttled and since I'm about done with what I can do on my main I may just cancel because of being bored with the game for the first time ever. If that is a good thing and that's what they were going for, cool, they hit it spot on.
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Wow, brilliant! So if you did visions every week on every alt they would all be maxed now! Wow, what incredible insight. Now where is the fucking time machine to get back to all those weeks ago when we didn't know how resistance past 15 was going to work and how much it would be throttled?
Do you maybe want to check the date of posts in this thread, dipshit? It's from more than a week ago, long before today's hotfix was announced.
It's also not live yet, either. So we can't farm Malefic cores yet anyway.
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Or maybe they're like me who is a teacher and didn't have time to raid because the world is a godsdamned shitshow right now? My guild went 11/12 Heroic week one and then I didn't have time to raid. They're now 11/12 mythic and working on the last phase of N'zoth. Nothing on this world or any other will catch me up in gear, but at least I won't be five months behind on corruption resist anymore.
Cheerful lack of self-preservation
A better analogy is the Artifact Knowledge system, when it comes to a catch-up mechanic: the further away you get from the starting point of the AP system gains, the easier it gets to catch up in the system. Such a system allows new players who join late or alts to catch up at a relatively quick pace while still allowing players who front-load their efforts to still be ahead.
The cloak system is slightly different due to having a hard cap versus a soft cap that AP has, but the cloak catch-up system also has a hard cap that has much harsher scaling than the AK system does the further out you get. The reason why this is probably unacceptable in the long term is because of how bloody powerful corruptions are and how necessary corruption is to be 'viable' or even perform moderately well. This reasoning is why AK exists in the first place: the borrowed power systems are so strong that falling behind without a solid catch-up system feels terrible to a player and forces playing often to keep up. In my personal opinion, the catch-up system Blizz is proposing (or something similar) should've been in-game immediately. Not sure why it wasn't, as the mentality behind a catch-up system was already there in Blizz allowing people to do the cloak quests 1-15 up to the current max level w/o restriction if you started late.
“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”
“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
They should just make it that every vision gives a +3, since now cloak upgrades are competing with corruption purchases or essences on alts so there is still a big trade off.
Probably running on a Pentium 4
You can buy as many orbs as you want in addition to the 2 you get from a full clear and a N'zoth kill, until you're caught up. Blizz's language use is poor here.
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"People who didn't play and fell behind are mad that people who did play and didn't fall behind are ahead of them and that's unfair." That's all I'm hearing from you.
The most difficult thing to do is accept that there is nothing wrong with things you don't like and accept that people can like things you don't.
How many echoes do you get for a full vision clear? 1250? 1500? If we assume you'll do 2 visions (and don't fail), every emissary and all three invasions you should get around 6000 echoes a week. Thats 5 cores a week if you do N'zoth. I feel like that's totally fair. You can probably get another one if you grind all the dailies and minor visions in a week. At that rate it will take you like... What are we at now? Idk, but shouldn't take you more than 2-3 weeks.
They could at least cut the cost from 2000 to 200.
With the caveat that you have to choose between buying corruption resistance and buying actual corruption, and with the added blow of having to bank your echoes for the one half-week a month where your corruption of choice is actually being sold.
I mean it's better than nothing but it's a double whammy PRECISELY for people who are trying to catch up.
Of course, but you won't have much use for corruption without the resistance anyways. Unless you like dancing with death. In which case, kudos to you
Maybe a better solution would be to have them be purchased for mementos or whatever the vision currency was called? I'd prefer if they didn't introduce another currency.
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I'm fine with 500 echoes cost since it's easily farmable with Arenas, raids, visions and other you know, but i am surprised they didn't add core to be spammable in (full) vision run only once week (Plz correct me if i am wrong!) . I was kinda hoping they put in catch up core for fully vision runs spam cuz you know it could help motivation ppl who hoard visions currency to maybe like masks run/core farm for echos/memotoes sockets and allow them to catch up resistance for cloak till resistance capped following the week.
In a perfect world, this wouldnt happen. In earlier expansions, my hype was HUGE, and i played MORE during the 'drought' because i was leveling alts for the new expac. And when the pre-patch hit, my playtime went through the roof trying every spec out for hours upon hours every day. But sadly, for the first time ever, BfA has killed all hype for SL or the future of wow. I am very eager to be proven wrong in the prepatch, which i will sub for and play, but these days i honestly enjoy playing some of the amazing games i either skipped or didnt invest much time into.
I don't know about anyone else, but i did my N'Zoth kill, a full Horrific Vision clear and bought some cores and could only get to 89 corruption resistance. At 89 MOTHER stopped showing purchasable Malefic Cores. So i am still one behind. Not that is makes a huge difference, but it's there.