Blizzard FAQ on New Upgrade System Coming in Patch 10.1
Blizzard has answered a lot more questions on the upgrade system coming in Patch 10.1! Find out more about the gear upgrade system in Patch 10.1 by clicking here: Patch 10.1 New Gear Upgrade System
Q: This seems awfully complicated. Why can’t you just give us more Valor?A: One of the philosophical underpinnings of this system is that we want to encourage players to challenge themselves when they want to improve their character’s power. Farming low-level keys is not challenging for most players who routinely time keys in the teens or higher.There are a lot of moving pieces to this system because it’s been engineered to handle all kinds of situations in an effort to more closely align “doing the optimal thing” with “doing the fun thing” while still keeping the base player experience simple. And some of the complication is there specifically to minimize the losses for making mistakes; we don’t want people punished for upgrading the “wrong” thing.Kill stuff, get Flightstones. Kill hard stuff, get Crests too.
Take Flightstones and Crests to item upgrade vendor. Item upgrade vendor tells you how much it’ll cost and upgrade the gear as long as you can afford it.If you didn’t read the big post from last week at all, but you took an item to an upgrade vendor and read the tooltips for Crests and Flightstones, you’d get enough of the gist to use the system just fine.Q: The article you wrote talks about how gear from Mythic raid bosses can be upgraded in the intro. Then it goes on to detail how gear can’t be upgraded once you get to Mythic raid level.A: Yep.
Sure does. That should have said “or a Heroic raid boss”. Oops.Q: Does this system and its hardcaps mean that I have to get the same item again from every upgrade track? I.
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