Small Crafted Gear Nerf in Dragonflight Season 3
In the first Patch 10.2 PTR build, the item levels of Dragonflight Season 3 have been revealed and Crafted Gear has taken a massive nerf.
Edit #1 (10:25 AM PDT): Blizzard has reached out to Wowhead to comment that the item levels for Crafted gear are outdated and they provided updated item levels for Crafted Item Levels in Season 3. The article has been updated.
Larger Increase Between Tiers
The important thing to point out is that the item level increase on the PTR right now is 39 item levels, but normally this increase is only 26 item levels. This means that players will be more undergeared coming into Dragonflight Season 3 than normal.
In Dragonflight Season 3, a Mythic Aberrus geared player will have gear equivalent to LFR of the Dream raid (typically Mythic previous raid is equivalent to Normal of the new raid).
Massive Crafted Gear Nerfs
Blizzard has provided the item levels of the Season 3 crafted gear:
- Enchanted Whelpling's Dreaming Crest: 431 — 444 Item Level
- Base Spark Crafted: 447 — 460 Item Level
- Enchanted Wyrm's Dreaming Crest: 460 — 473 Item Level
- Enchanted Aspect's Dreaming Crest: 470 — 483 Item Level
You can see that the new Aspects crafted crest caps at 483 item level. What does this equate to in Season 3?
- Mythic+ Great Vault 20s: Item Level 483
- Mythic Raid: Item Level 480 — 489
The max rank of crafted gear from Aspects is equivalent to doing the new +20 keystone and is equal to early-mid Mythic raid.
Only a slight nerf to crafted gear.
- Aspect Crafted Gear in Season 3 would have an equivalent item level in Season 2 would be 444 (down from 447).
- Wyrm Crafted Gear in Season 3 would have an equivalent item level in Season 2 would be 434 (down from 437).
- Whelpling Crafted Gear in Season 3 would have
