Why is the World of Darkness on a weekly lockout?

[Skeith-Adeline]

Now, I have no issue with the hunt. However, seeing ilvl 120 items be on a weekly lockout when I am able to upgrade MULTIPLE ilvl 130 items a week is honestly... truly honestly retarded and I'm disheartened that they lacked the foresight to think of this ahead of time, especially since this was an issue with 2.3.

Yes, it is to add playability to the WoD but, as long as there are Hunts, there is no purpose to the WoD outside of the weekly CarbonCoat lol.

EDIT: I upgraded 3 pieces of gear so far, in a single week and I could have easily, EASILY upgraded 5 if I put a little more effort.

[ChriZirhC]

tell me if you can get multiple pcs of poetic gear weekly

[Aethaeryn]

Yeah, the patches have been backwards since 2.0 hit because Labyrinth of the Ancients wasn't ready at the time. Now they flat out call the CT gear 'vanity' pieces. At least they look really nice this time around! The lockout is still extremely puzzling, but it is what it is.

[Waliel]

Because hunts are absolutely the most boring thing you can do. Or fates. I don't know which one. WoD allows me to get some nice 120 pieces for off-classes or glamour. I probably wouldn't touch hunts unless it was the only way to obtain any gear.

[Felis]

Same reason why Syrius Tower had a weekly lockout at 2.3
Because it is part of the Crystal Tower and is fresh.

[kyuven]

OK, let's look at it like this:
The upgrades you get from twine and coats ARE NOT new gear. They are upgrades to gear you already have. Gear that is gated behind the poetics cap. You can get dozens of twine and coats in a given week but you can't upgrade more pieces than you actually have.
WoD, like the towers before it, drops a piece that's the same as the un-upgraded gear from the current capped currency, but you can't upgrade it. At the same time, though, you're guaranteed one a week whereas unless you're buying the jewelry, you have to save up your poetics each week to buy a new piece of armor, meaning you technically only get one piece every OTHER week.
So you have one set of armor you're basically guaranteed a shot at once a week, and another set you have to save for but can upgrade for as long as you have the patience for hunts.

[alimdia]

Some items from WOD are actually BIS

also who the hell wants to hunt 24/7 to get multiple twines a week

[Accolade]

Some items from WOD are actually BIS

Can anyone clarify or expand on this?

Im not saying its wrong by any means, but I have run a few builds through Ariyalas BIS calc, and never seen a WoD piece in the mix.
I havnt tried all jobs obviously but it always seemed 130 came out top.
Its very possible I just did not enter the correct criteria ect.

I know some wod pieces have super sexy secondary stats, but should never be used over main stats, unless the secondary actually outweigh the primary.(Very rare occurrence).
For example 1dex equates to 6.9det(?), so if a poetics+1 piece has 5 more dex, at least 35det(admittedly this scales linearly) would be needed on the wod piece to be beneficial over the 130.
And I think its around 15 crit = 1% chance? (brds would need this more, I agree)

Im sure there are some super number crunchers that know far more than me, so correct if wrong please.

[ZephyrAM]

Crystal Tower raids have always been on a weekly lockout, and they've never been the top tier content. They're always released with drops with lower ilvl's then can be found in game (generally through Binding Coil).

CT is basically a 'catch up' raid that allows players to upgrade their gear without running cutting edge content (again, read Binding Coil). That they added all this extra stuff to hunts was a choice (or mistake) they made once before, and now have made again. It's just the system they've chosen to run with.

[Brannigan]

The problem is not that the CT rewards are too restricted, it's that the hunt rewards are too high. Adding twine to the hunt was a bad decision.