giving welfare epics that were comparable w top-end raid/pvp epics was a fatal mistake the game never really recovered from
the past few xpacs have been p good about making the welfare epics significantly nerfed compared to the real epics but u just literally walk to a vendor and buy it for nothing so everyones wearing purples but theres a significant difference between a welfare epic and a heroic/mythic raid epic
shadowlands has been really bad about the itemization and gear level comapred to the level of difficulty
it used to be u ran dungeons before t1 raid, then t1 raid for t2 raid, etc
now u clear a heroic raid to get the gear good enough to clear the same raid on heroic its fucking retarded
but having 4 levels of raid is a great thing for the health of the game
shitters are stuck in looking-for-raid and normal difficulties, heroics are competent players and mythics are the sweaty autists
the past few xpacs have been p good about making the welfare epics significantly nerfed compared to the real epics but u just literally walk to a vendor and buy it for nothing so everyones wearing purples but theres a significant difference between a welfare epic and a heroic/mythic raid epic
shadowlands has been really bad about the itemization and gear level comapred to the level of difficulty
it used to be u ran dungeons before t1 raid, then t1 raid for t2 raid, etc
now u clear a heroic raid to get the gear good enough to clear the same raid on heroic its fucking retarded
but having 4 levels of raid is a great thing for the health of the game
shitters are stuck in looking-for-raid and normal difficulties, heroics are competent players and mythics are the sweaty autists