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What are your opinions on the item upgrade system from 5.1?
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deathbyte
He argument is completely valid.
I just hit 90 on another toon. I don't want to grind all the reps again (even with the bonuses). Having the upgrade system allowed you to upgrade your raid finder gear to get to 480 allowing you to get into the new raid. With it gone new toons need to grind again if they ever want to see ToT.
OP is saying what is the point of taking it away. It was a nice feature.
Post by
lankybrit
Well, they removed it because they didn't want players facing the dilemma of whether to buy new gear, or upgrade their old gear.
But, that being said, I would have like it stay around. I don't care about that dilemma, and would have been fine with it staying.
Cheers.
Post by
lonewarrior
I know the feeling, I just don't do dailies and still managed to get my gear level up to 485 at the moment. When I became valor capped I also used the machine to upgrade my best pieces.
Just have to accept the limitations on ilevel progression if you don't want to do dailies, yeah it may take longer but nothing in the game is going anywhere soon.
Besides, if I read the 5.2 notes right..this may be just for this patch and may return at a later date.
I finally did Galleon after all this time and first drop was a 496 hood so..it's going to happen.
Pretty soon, prices on 496 gear will begin to drop significantly as well.
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felhunter
i suggest for all people who want higher ilvl to do ToT trash runs, 5-6 trash runs before first boss should be enough too get you 2999/3000 shado pan assault and then you can get friendly by doing one of their quest or a rep badge you can get from final daily chest.
that way you unlock 4 ilvl522 items (neck neutral, ring/wrist/trinket friendly) these should be an huge boost too your ilvl and they're far better valor spent atm too get ilvl480 then item upgrades were.
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Astygia
Upgrade system is/was a fine idea in terms of VP (epic upgrades), but in order to feel right it requires the methods by which folks actually obtain gear to have a certain flow, and that flow is not very ideal for a fresh 90 at this time (regarding JP gear).
What I mean by that is, the JP gear (and speed at which folks acquire JP) is pretty much pointless - even with reputation requirements removed near the beginning of the xpac, and even if you've got a 90 and unlocked the bonus rep gain, the simple fact is that by the time you can actually use the gear and farm JP for said gear, the instances you're getting the JP from just drop better stuff and by the time you've got enough JP for one or two rep pieces, you will almost certainly have better items from the instances and probably be ready for raid finder.
TLDR: You shouldn't have been able to upgrade blues at all, and/or JP gear should have just been 463 to match Heroic ilvls. It feels like they kinda knew the rep gear was ultimately pointless and threw in the ability to upgrade a bandaid.
As far as upgrading epics with valor though, once you've gotten to that point (especially now, with valor costs being halved or quartered), the upgrade of epics is a pretty fine concept, and although I've read the devs' post, it seems silly to have removed it at this point.
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Azrile
He argument is completely valid.
I just hit 90 on another toon. I don't want to grind all the reps again (even with the bonuses). Having the upgrade system allowed you to upgrade your raid finder gear to get to 480 allowing you to get into the new raid. With it gone new toons need to grind again if they ever want to see ToT.
OP is saying what is the point of taking it away. It was a nice feature.
Except for the fact you can have Klaxxi to Revered (ie 3 VP items) before you even get to 90. You can also have SP to Honored (another VP item) before you hit 89.
Except for the fact that you have Sha of Anger, and now Galleon, including the Sha boots
Except for the fact that you can buy the 522 necklace from SP assault without doing any dailes
Except for the fact that you can buy stuff on the AH and the BMAH.
Oh wait.. I get it.. You don´t want to do anything and still be able to do every raid in the game?
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deathbyte
He argument is completely valid.
I just hit 90 on another toon. I don't want to grind all the reps again (even with the bonuses). Having the upgrade system allowed you to upgrade your raid finder gear to get to 480 allowing you to get into the new raid. With it gone new toons need to grind again if they ever want to see ToT.
OP is saying what is the point of taking it away. It was a nice feature.
Except for the fact you can have Klaxxi to Revered (ie 3 VP items) before you even get to 90. You can also have SP to Honored (another VP item) before you hit 89.
Except for the fact that you have Sha of Anger, and now Galleon, including the Sha boots
Except for the fact that you can buy the 522 necklace from SP assault without doing any dailes
Except for the fact that you can buy stuff on the AH and the BMAH.
Oh wait.. I get it.. You don´t want to do anything and still be able to do every raid in the game?
Well lets see... My new 90 monk has only done about 20 or so quests in dread wastes and about 30ish for townlong... So no they wont all be at revered or honored.
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