Did any of that stuff ultimately affect us though? Gear system are AIDS but that's just shit design philosophy. Personal loot was an issue like once for us,otherwise we just gamed it as needed. Certainly cut down on loot time. AP nerfs... In the end that shit didn't matter. If your guild had a requirement then that's just poor leadership.
I'd rather he nerf from the top down rather than the bottom (or middle) up
Man so many of those shitty decision impacts the playerbase outside of the world race elite.
Mythic is tailored around this shit. Take for example Lady Ashvane in the previous tier. She was THE roadblock of the tier because while not complicated she was an extremely tight dps check and execution check.
If you wanted to beat this cunt without waiting 5 weeks for gear to catch up (imagine being in a mythic guild and telling your raiders naaaaah we'll just wait to gear up...lol) you HAD to farm an INSANE amount of pearls in nazjatar to buy benthic and upgrade them.
The thing that was originally thought to be a catch up mechanic to your alts' gear turned out to parse higher than level 445 gear from the current tier, oftentimes by a LARGE amount.
So you had to invest an enormous amount of time, often on multiple characters to run around fucking nazjatar and collect every possible pearl through WQs, rare farming and whatever means you had. It wasn't uncommon to have people do this shit on 4 toons to funnel bracers or belts or whatever to their mains only to get buttfucked by the RNG and not get the piece they needed. What a fucking shitshow of a design.
But hold up, next patch we're gonna one up that shit boys. Here comes the fucking essences. Actually interesting design for once, provides shit to do that doesn't feel too grind........wait nevermind, i have to farm fucking faction for half of them, plus currency to buy them (fuck mechagon and the fucking shitty 1 a day may be 2 oscillators)
OH by the way you have to redo the entire fucking grind for any alt, including faction. Ain't that fucking swell. Oh 2 of your healers are AFK this week, well i guess you better hope someone in the guild spent 60 hours grinding essences for their heal offpsec or their alt healers or you ain't raiding today.
And then there's the plague that is titanforging. The ultimate incarnation of the fear of missing out. You shouldn't gain anything by raiding normal or heroic if you're currently raiding mythic. But you might. Hell, you might titanforge all the way from LFR to the highest iLvl possible. How did that even make it past the test realm in its first iteration? How can you possibly get the best gear out there completely randomly from a WQ or a heroic dungeon or a LFR raid? It's completely shatters the scale of rewards and makes it so hey, you might titanforge that shit so now you feel like you HAVE to run this dumb fucking raid in normal.
And then there's Mythic +. There is so much you can do with M+ that could have made it so much more fun to play. Making the trash the challenge of the dungeon and forcing you to kill most of it was probably the worst way to go about it. Making the rewards the same for running a 10 then for running a 20 (and if you've done this, you fucking know damn well how much better you have to be at the game to run 20's compared to 10's) is so laughably stupid it doesn't even make sense.
I'm not even going going to touch on corruption. It's par for the course, including the lack of testing and understanding of just how much fucking damage this shit does. It's just titanforging RNG all over again but with a different name and a twise. Fuck right off with that shit
But don't worry guys, they'll get it right in shadowlands.
