Trensharo@Antonia Bayle wrote:
Corydonn wrote:
Atan@Unrest wrote:
The intended gear progression for DOV is:
PQ -> EM raid gear -> HM raid gear
The player is showered with gear with little effort in taking this path.
The alternate path involving heroic content is a long slow haul that is replaced rapidly with EM raid gear. You can replace 40 hours of heroic work in 10 minutes of EM raiding.
What grossly unbalances everything is the PQ gear. If it was removed, things would fall in line. But since a viable set of gear is available with extremely little work in, the only minorly upgraded legendary gear from other sources is _purely_ optional.
This. The best way to approach Velious is to ignore all the heroic content. It's just not worth it.
All that does is make the point that I made in the OP. Either you're getting carried in raids, or you're hitting several road blocks. The Heroic content actually has upgrades, so it's not a waste of time for someone who wants to progress through (instead of skip) that content.
The issue with the lower instances is that the loot is all rot by default except a few off-pieces.
Why would I run SC/Ascent/Pools when I can buy better off a Quartermaster for 5-15p? For a few PVS? Is it really worth the amount of time it takes to run those instances? Not really.
It still doesn't change the fact that by now no raid guild is recruiting PQ geared players unless they are desperate for something like a Support/Healer/Bard/Chanter class. A decent gear progression is needed. They need to fix it. I'm not going to pay to work around something that is obviously broken.
I see what your saying now. Hmm...what if they made a vendor who had some gear that was goodf for the newest raids...and you got that gear by getting tokens from doing older heroics and content. Then everyone could be on the level in a timely manner.