Look at all these angry elitists. God forbid there is a way to get gear without raiding. 1250 valor is a good amount of work to put in, so who cares? Why should raiding be the only way to get gear? In reality there should be multiple avenues to get gear so that you can still have good gear after putting in the same TIME COMMITMENT. Some people have a volatile schedule that prevents them from joining a raiding guild, and some people just don't prefer raiding at all. So we're going to insult them and make them feel like raiding is the only way? That's nonsense to me. Thanks Blizzard, this is a step in the right direction. And I believe Legion will have more things like this.
Yeah, elitists can go to you know where. So players can get a 3 ilvl increase for 1250 valor on one item....that's 5 item upgrades or 25 ilvls if used on other gear. Valor takes time and effort to get, sure lfr is easy, heroic dungeons are easy, but they still take time, especially if a dps spec. Personally I think they were thinking of dual spec (don't forget legion tri/quad spec, get that third ring and prep your toons now) players who actually use both specs. Oh, most of your raid has your upgrades in 20 weeks. That's nice, now you still need 20 more upgrades, good luck! Sure it tailors more to casuals, but honestly the effort to get all that valor is more than most casuals will do to get their 3-4 valor ring upgrades per week. That's also without spending valor to upgrade any other loot they get. It just doesn't seem like it's that big a deal. Link your AoTC, or mount your moose to show off, or put on the title you got. Still plenty of ways to show how leet you are, stop complaining just because Blizz is being nice.
I see no reason why this is a bad idea its the end of the exp, most guilds will have killed mythic archi before legion, like they did with garrosh in soo, so being "hard to get" is not really true with all the nerfs, but i think it is a good idea to give the casuals something to do after all more than 50% of the games players are casuals, us raiders will still have the advantage being able to get 5 per week over the none raiders 4 per week, and will have our rings maxed before casuals, its the same as catch up gear they give none raiders if you think about it, note i am 13/13hc 3m, and i see nothing wrong with giving lesser skilled players or players uninterested in raiding something to do.
Will having an exalted reputation with the Order of the Awakened reduce the price of this?
I think this is a great idea. If the elitists want something to hold on to something, they have the achievements that are no longer available once the new expansion comes out. Also, gear is so volatile that using it to be elite is temporary at best. Yes you have mythic level gear, but once Legion comes out it will be outdated in a matter of hours. Also, having other people get better gear doesn't really hurt you in any way. Why worry about what other people are doing unless it hurts you. Unless the belief is that having the ring upgraded will allow people to get the achievements who would otherwise be unable to, the achievement will still remain rare. Based on what I have seen, you have to be able to link AotC for most runs, so having an upgraded ring won't really help.
I both like and dislike this.I'm 5 upgrades away from my 795 ilvl ring so this will help me finish. On the other hand, people that didn't even kill archimonde on normal mode will be able to get it. At least put an achivement requirement or something, like at least having killed him on normal.I don't get it. This is just cuting gameplay hours. Not saying that there were a lot, but at least some.
I think the cost is way too cheap. Previously you could only upgrade once a week, now you can upgrade about five times a week. So you go from taking 20 weeks to fully upgrade your ring down to only 5 weeks. I think it should have costed something like 2500-4000 Valor, something you would only use if you had absolutely nothing else to spend your Valor on.
To be honest yes this is a nice thing, but! But, they should have brought this up when the movie comes out, what are we going to do till Legion?
what good will be your achievement in a few months PuG etilists? good night sweet prince.LFR useless to gear up in return you can get the legendary ring.. well the etilists will still think everything that blizzard makes "easy" on their eyes will be absurd and ridiculous no matter what.
This should be limited only for alts of people who got 795 lvl rings. The fact LFR people got legendary rings was too much already and now they'll be able to get it to 795 by spamming LFRs and mythic dungeons... That's just sad.
Four mythics a week is WAY more easy than killing archi... I can run four mythics in about 1.5 hours... In a good guild run archi is only 20-45 min... In a bad PUG, Archie can take hours and wipes and repairs and wipes and repairs... I'll gladly do four mythics a week over Archie pugs anytime
There was no valor points with Pet bonus event quest, only a evolve stone.
3 from Valors + 1 from Archimonde = 12ilvls a week, I think this is pretty solid. :)