Watcher gave us some information on the latest upcoming method of protecting hardcore raiders from themselves and the AP grind... it appears the answer is to make it even more grindy!
The marginal gains for each trait from 35-54 were still too enticing and had everyone remotely competitive heading to Purgatory, or Maw of Souls, for multiple runs day after day.
Nobody seems particularly happy about this situation but any potential gain needs to be taken if you are determined to beat your competition (apparently).
Obviously listening to the loud, clear message being sent out by their player base, Blizzard's answer is to reduce those marginal gains even further!
Each marginal gain will now be much smaller than the current 0.5% and, for some reason, it will be a random proc.
After years of hardcore raiders proving that they will grind literally anything to gain character power, are Blizzard just trying to test them? Are they trying to find the Meatloaf point?
I would do anything for more dps... but I won't do that.
My suspicion is that the top guilds will still push for these now miniscule increases in power because, after all, they are still increases in power.
Patch 7.2 and these new traits will release earlier than the Tomb of Sargeras raid, what do you think these guilds will be doing?
This ridiculous arms race leads to the raid being tuned for the max artefact power or we end up with another Xavius, falling on the first night...
Which is where my solution comes in :-)
Lock the artefact weapon for raiding. Simple.
As an example using Nighthold... the artefact weapon would be locked at 35 traits when you entered the raid.
Anything you have gained over 35 would still exist but it would be disabled.
Enabling the traits gradually, maybe 1 trait per week after release, would also act as a natural nerf to the content for those lower down the pecking order.
Blizzard could then tune Nighthold based on everyone having 35 traits and there would be no arms race at all.
The grind would be from 35 to the Tomb of Sargeras cap but it would be done over the entire length of the current patch and would happen naturally with raiding Nighthold and just general play.
PvP has been handled in a very similar way in the past, maybe it still is, and that seem to work quite well.
To be honest, I can't see any possible drawbacks with this system.
Am I missing something glaringly obvious?
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