Your thoughts on the new Chaotic Alliance Raid having (possibly) BIS gear?

[TomsYoungerBro]

I specifically said that under a non savage mindset, max ilvl is the least of my concerns. During a savage patch, casuals only have access to basic tome gear, also gear up way slower, and that's perfectly fine. What's not fine is not having alternatives with different stats to play with.

This is contradictory. On the savage patch, crafted and normal raid gear is also available at 10 ilvl lower than tome gear. This is fine considering every piece of content (not gated by clearing savage) is accessible with crafted ilvl or better gear. Since ilvl does not matter, this does give you more choices than capped tomes to gear up jobs.

As for your comment on having access to all those tome gear, crafted etc during odd patches, this is irrelevant, because the best gear is augmented tome gear and nothing else. Alliance raid gear is trash and serves no purpose by being equal to basic tome gear, or at best serves as catch up gear for returners.

The devils advocate here was arguing that ilvl above current crafted doesnt matter, so to a casual those items being 10-20 ilvls lower than augmented tome doesnt matter. If skillspeed (as per your example) is a gripe, that can be solved with several options that are at crafted ilvl or higher available to casual players without the need to do savage content.


Edit: Just wanted to note i've seen this type of argument used in the past, so that is why im playing devils advocate on it here. When fixes to the gearing system have been brought up, i've seen casual players say gearing above crafted are only for toxic "barse" players as everything can be attempted with crafted, so they dont want to fix savage gearing and odd patch gearing. The only case they are wrong would be ultimate which on current patch requires savage ilvl gear to attempt properly (with the tier clear), but otherwise they are technically "correct". I personally dont agree with this as every player is going to want to progress towards higher ilvl when they can because progression is fun and not simply a "hardcore" activity.