Being able to actively upgrade pieces ala Mists was way better than the shit piece meal bullshit rng dependent system they've created. Instead of being able to invest time and upgrade pieces, I can just fucking luck out and proc a 390 piece. Good fucking times. Due to rng even someone who plays all the fucking time can still get fucked by rng. Yeah, that's good, bring that to the board of executives. I'm sure the players will love that shit. Was way better having to hold onto a piece, even if it was the same piece that needed to be upgraded or gemmed in order to actually equip it. Now we just hold onto a dozen Azerite pieces of the same slot in case the unfuck the traits or we manage to pick up a piece that's 15+ ilvl higher. Personal investment is so fucking disconnected with the current model of gearing it is literally making me not give a fuck. And with how little gear matter now, certainly hasn't helped. Effort or time to reward is completely fucked right now. It wouldn't surprise me if they released a pay for increased forging at this point. No single upgrade feels significant. And it isn't. With a 365 weapon, I'm no more powerful than a 320. Super fucking annoying. I'm sure it'd make a difference in mythic raiding having a few extra Hp.... But how the game works otherwise, I just feel I have no real reason to do anything except wait a month before AP scales a little better. I had fun in legion leveling my artifact weapon. That's lacking here. 2 ilvl on my amulet for 10x the effort.... Yeah, fuck that. If I didn't have a sub for several months I'd just disappear until the next raid tier. And even then, only to see the encounters outside LFR. Speaking of LFR, such hasn't been such aids since Cataclysm. Jesus Christ, I've sat and watched while it took an hour for a group to clear the bullshit trash before Zul. Don't pull multiple groups.... But they corpse crawl the same group over and over. The disparity between heavy players and mythic players is too fucking far. Not saying LFR should be a shove over, but the mechanics shouldn't brick wall a queued group because there are too many idiots who fail and throw their corpse at something over and over, preventing any progress. Yay. Fun.
