FIrst impressions so far: - new zone okay - storm phase pretty cool - story bits on the isle pretty good - new ring absolutely dogshit - gem acquisition absolutely dogshit - ring cannot even be socketed via jeweler's settings, therefore having to reconfigure all other gems to make blasphemite work again - absolutely dogshit - overall, new "content" very lackluster
I like the part where there is no known source for 2/3 of my BiS gems and the third one is a random possible drop from the weekly (didn't get it this week). Good. Shit.
Ugh not this ring again. They didn’t learn from the last time they tried this borrowed power crap. I don’t know why they waste their time with these temporary systems
So "it should compete with season2 heroic raid gear" means they will hotfix it as long as its a massive upgrade für everyone and we will use it for like half of the next season until we have spare crests to upgrade rings (after weapon, trinkets and set pieces so like 8 weeks into the season)
I'm here for all those great takes about how logging into the game to progress an item is the worst thing to happen to an rpg game that is all about getting and upgrading gear.
It’s hilarious isn’t it. They complain when there’s nothing to do. They complain when they can’t progress their ilvl. Blizzard then gives us a scaling damage/healing buff to the raid and an OP ring that spreads a lot of power out to your raids and dungeons.
The actual gameplay mostly isn't fun anymore. Why do you think so many people play classic and private servers? Retail is just time-gated spreadsheet garbage now.
They should buff the ring to a very high level to ease the pain of season 1 and let us smash through the rest of it. Many are playing alts or they’re new players who could use the help and have fun
We should just be able to apply a missive to the ring to get secondary stats. Once S2 gets released, disable the sockets or change to normal 2 sockets? This will allow it to still be used in S2, just not for the borrowed power aspect but for the ilvl / secondary stats.
the Ring itself wont need a Boost, but those Stat Gems still need Buffed. the Secondary Stat one barely gives 1% worth of Secondary, needs to be at LEAST 3 times that to be appealing. the Mastery one i imagine will be great for most Specs, but it would've been great to get a VERS Gem like that.
timegated gems, the fuck is that shit, lmao.. one thing is timegateing the ilvl upgrade on it, but the gems.. why?? so fucking bad, no one will use the ring until week 3..unless it's an alt that have like no ring equipped..
I wonder if this might start to be the breaking point for players with time gating especially when you log in, go to pick up the quests on patch day, and immediately see Khadgar chilling saying to come back in 3 weeks. Only to then keep going, get your ring and find out it sucks because the gems you want to get are time gated or thinking it sucks because it's ilvl sucks because oh hey more time gating.
This whole video is speculative as we dont know what the new baselines of the rings are (639ilvl on PTR will not be the same as 639 on live). The intentions are for this ring to be defacto choice and blizzard will see it to be that way through hotfixes if it still isnt enough.
I hate it, if everyone does it, there is no incentive it’s just one more thing you have to do to be exactly on par with everyone else. It blows. It’s not alt friendly it’s a giant time consumer that is worthless since it just puts you on par with everyone else. It’s a must do, not a I want to do. You won’t get invited to keys if you don’t progress this ring because your ilev will obviously be off which means and alts you wanna play are screwed because you will have to do the same boring time sink into that one. I hate it.
Ok? Then don’t do it? It’s not the end of the world if you don’t want to get the ring on your alts but considering the ring STARTS at mythic ilvl now means most of the grind and time-gating has been removed. I swear to God some of you guys just love to complain over the most trivial things. Do you just want to login and have everything mailed to you? Yes, you might not get invited to some keys if you don’t have the ring because that tells everyone that you can’t bother putting in a little effort.
FIrst impressions so far:
- new zone okay
- storm phase pretty cool
- story bits on the isle pretty good
- new ring absolutely dogshit
- gem acquisition absolutely dogshit
- ring cannot even be socketed via jeweler's settings, therefore having to reconfigure all other gems to make blasphemite work again - absolutely dogshit
- overall, new "content" very lackluster
I like the part where there is no known source for 2/3 of my BiS gems and the third one is a random possible drop from the weekly (didn't get it this week). Good. Shit.
Honestly they don't even play their own game. I still have a hero ring and it's literally better than what options we have this week.
Ugh not this ring again. They didn’t learn from the last time they tried this borrowed power crap. I don’t know why they waste their time with these temporary systems
True and real.
Just for people to keep engaging with the game and paying each month.
every gear is borrowed power... stop tripping
Naga they waste YOUR time
Them only having Mast as a stat specific gem is just odd.
Yep. Mastery has been an odd stat since it was introduced.
Mast for DKs..we suck
@@elliotbottel2674
In raid maybe but in M+ DK is easy A+
@@elliotbottel2674 as a blood dk mass is meh prefer crit or verse
That's the whole reason I'm not crazy about it. I have to lose 3% crit as a holy paladin to equip it.
Ofc the gems are time gated, this ring is 4% worse than what i currently have mainly because of the gems
The ring is extremely biased towards mastery
So "it should compete with season2 heroic raid gear" means they will hotfix it as long as its a massive upgrade für everyone and we will use it for like half of the next season until we have spare crests to upgrade rings (after weapon, trinkets and set pieces so like 8 weeks into the season)
yeah, well they need to buff it way more to meet those intentions. ESPECIALLY the Stat Gems, 1% Secondary isnt what i'd call impactful.
I'm here for all those great takes about how logging into the game to progress an item is the worst thing to happen to an rpg game that is all about getting and upgrading gear.
It’s hilarious isn’t it. They complain when there’s nothing to do. They complain when they can’t progress their ilvl.
Blizzard then gives us a scaling damage/healing buff to the raid and an OP ring that spreads a lot of power out to your raids and dungeons.
Imagine only playing a game for chasing gear upgrades instead of having fun playing and also getting gear.
The actual gameplay mostly isn't fun anymore. Why do you think so many people play classic and private servers? Retail is just time-gated spreadsheet garbage now.
Just quit playing then. Blizzard will not miss your chump change. @@wvjeepguy8178
Bad take
They should buff the ring to a very high level to ease the pain of season 1 and let us smash through the rest of it. Many are playing alts or they’re new players who could use the help and have fun
We should just be able to apply a missive to the ring to get secondary stats. Once S2 gets released, disable the sockets or change to normal 2 sockets? This will allow it to still be used in S2, just not for the borrowed power aspect but for the ilvl / secondary stats.
as of last night, the current ilvl and gems of the ring aren't simming higher than my current heroic ilvl rings. maybe that will change as it goes on.
😂 just copy pasting dragonflight. Don't get where everyone saying WWI was so good
the Ring itself wont need a Boost, but those Stat Gems still need Buffed. the Secondary Stat one barely gives 1% worth of Secondary, needs to be at LEAST 3 times that to be appealing. the Mastery one i imagine will be great for most Specs, but it would've been great to get a VERS Gem like that.
Upgraded once and still weaker than a heroic track ring.
Buffs are surely incoming.
A think blizzard dev's are bad at math. That's the only explanation for releasing such weak item
timegated gems, the fuck is that shit, lmao.. one thing is timegateing the ilvl upgrade on it, but the gems.. why?? so fucking bad, no one will use the ring until week 3..unless it's an alt that have like no ring equipped..
I wonder if this might start to be the breaking point for players with time gating especially when you log in, go to pick up the quests on patch day, and immediately see Khadgar chilling saying to come back in 3 weeks. Only to then keep going, get your ring and find out it sucks because the gems you want to get are time gated or thinking it sucks because it's ilvl sucks because oh hey more time gating.
There's no stealth changes. Stealth is just as effective as ever. Though I bet it'll be bugged again.
Random procs shod be mostly removed from the game,
agreed, garbage. 100% or not at all.
Ring did on average 4% of my dps today, but lowered my overall dps by WAY more than that
So will the ilvl increase on the ring buff the gem stats or just the ring stats (stamina only)
both
gems stats gems need to be for all stats and better then what we already have on regular rings plain and simple
I put the ring on and it made my damage go way down from. 619 ring as ret
I used the ring on my 633 ilvl balance druid....my overall DPS was 300k lower lol. The ring is utter useless, at least for now
The dps Gem was doing about 5% of my DPS today.
losing 6k secondary stats for 3% dps overall random procs KEKW
this ring at 642 is worthless if you have laready 639 ring
The point of the ring is not to put secondary stats into every socket.
it should be an option, relying on Procs leaves you performing like shit 99% of the time.
This whole video is speculative as we dont know what the new baselines of the rings are (639ilvl on PTR will not be the same as 639 on live). The intentions are for this ring to be defacto choice and blizzard will see it to be that way through hotfixes if it still isnt enough.
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642 ring = 619 an ordinary ring.....
The ring is stupid, NOBODY WANTS OR LIKES THE IDEA OF HAVING TO DEDICATE A SLOT TO A MANDATORY ITEM! Especially one that is not even good.
im here to tell u i like the ring, so speak for yourself.
@skarnexonline4446 bot
they had the ptr to fixed this shit wtf
Ring is at 642, that’s as high as it goes today right?
yup
Imo this ring should feel like an legendary and be bis for everyone. Whats the point of useless content….
forsen
let me guess, we need to do some boring shit over and over again for weeks to maintain this boring shit content
I hate it, if everyone does it, there is no incentive it’s just one more thing you have to do to be exactly on par with everyone else. It blows. It’s not alt friendly it’s a giant time consumer that is worthless since it just puts you on par with everyone else. It’s a must do, not a I want to do. You won’t get invited to keys if you don’t progress this ring because your ilev will obviously be off which means and alts you wanna play are screwed because you will have to do the same boring time sink into that one. I hate it.
If you don't like logging in, maybe being whatever m+ or raid god you believe yourself to be is not worth any of your time, champ.
Stop crying it's a game you think you supposed to be given things every role playing game i ever played you earn gear or greens drop from mobs
Ok? Then don’t do it? It’s not the end of the world if you don’t want to get the ring on your alts but considering the ring STARTS at mythic ilvl now means most of the grind and time-gating has been removed.
I swear to God some of you guys just love to complain over the most trivial things. Do you just want to login and have everything mailed to you?
Yes, you might not get invited to some keys if you don’t have the ring because that tells everyone that you can’t bother putting in a little effort.
The ring isn't make or break get it if you want the easy ilvl or don't. Or just cry about it some more that works too
@@daverobert5018 I legit don’t understand why some of these people stay subscribed to the game
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