World of Warcraft: Current Year

I think the point isn't about the shit crafting, which you've furthered the point of it being something that takes a month or two for a single shit piece, but that you can obtain those things by doing the most basic, rudimentary bullshit. And when you do, your chance of rolling something appropriate is still rng. If you go through the fuckstick crafting mechanism, you should at least be able to craft the piece you need, not rely on doing a hundred heroics for the chance of something you won't ever use at that level in the game. They've always fucked this up. So much shit is designed, developed, and just washed over by bullshit like LFR, or handout catchup mechanisms. The balance between the top and bottom is arbitrary. The guy who spends 3000 hours on something should get what they want, even if they don't run 400 mythics, since Mr mythic won't give a fuck about that one piece of gear as they've easily farmed a better piece. The gearing options are only better than they were in vanilla in that we have a lot of options to obtain items with minimal effort, but too many options are fuck off options that involve zero effort, while long term efforts without being a dicksucking mythic raider fails on its intended audience. A thousand raid resources to make a piece of gear doesn't mean shit to the guy who raids when that piece is intended for a casual nonraider. If that makes sense.

Which it doesn't, because the game designers are stuck up their own asses.

Arbitrary said:

As a casual derp that primarily benefited from these catch up mechanics it really hurt my enjoyment of the expansion thus far to have my meager progress all negated. I was proud of what I had scraped together, the dailies I had ran for the rep to buy 335 gear, and the crawl up from normal to heroic in preparation for mythic and for raiding. Then with Arathi and especially now with these Warfronts it's all irrelevant. I could have done anything else with my time and then been decked out after an evening of Warfronts, the associated quest, and a world boss. This is more of what I expect from the end of an expansion rather than the beginning of one.

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If you were lucky, that is. One of my alts got two 340 belts from Arathi (one drop, one from the quest). That's it. No WB drop, no bonus loot. I suspect this is more in line with what the majority of players will experience; some - a few - will simply get a exceptional shower of loot this week.