It's Been Ten Thousand Years

[Persuasive]

I am considering returning to try out the new expansion for a while. I have dozens of old grandfathered twinks from just about every era of the game except Legion, so I'm extremely out of the loop.

I came back to Legion for about a week and everything had absolutely gone to shit, nothing was good, and all that mattered in BGs was ilvl and being a feral druid, so I left immediately.

What I basically would like to know is:

1. Is the bracket reasonably competitive (balance-wise and activity wise)
2. Is gear relevant again or is it all just ilvl based
3. Is BiS attainable, or is it all grandfathered stuff

Thanks,
Persuasive

 

[momus]

1) depends
2) yes, gear is the key now
3) bis is always gfed, what are u talking about lol

 

[Bestworld]

I am considering returning to try out the new expansion for a while. I have dozens of old grandfathered twinks from just about every era of the game except Legion, so I'm extremely out of the loop.

I came back to Legion for about a week and everything had absolutely gone to shit, nothing was good, and all that mattered in BGs was ilvl and being a feral druid, so I left immediately.

What I basically would like to know is:

1. Is the bracket reasonably competitive (balance-wise and activity wise)
2. Is gear relevant again or is it all just ilvl based
3. Is BiS attainable, or is it all grandfathered stuff

Thanks,
Persuasive

1) In wargames, sure, depending on the individuals you get. PuG is always gonna be a clown fiesta most of the time.
2) Yes gear is relevant, no template / ilvl affecting template (at least at twink levels)
3) Depends on class and gear set. Druid caster BiS for instance is the fang set from WC, same for shamans with slitherscale, which are all obtainable. Some off-pieces, again depending on class, is also gonna be bis, but you are more than good to go with the current obtainables, no matter the class.

 

[Scribbletube]

1) In wargames, sure, depending on the individuals you get. PuG is always gonna be a clown fiesta most of the time.
2) Yes gear is relevant, no template / ilvl affecting template (at least at twink levels)
3) Depends on class and gear set. Druid caster BiS for instance is the fang set from WC, same for shamans with slitherscale, which are all obtainable. Some off-pieces, again depending on class, is also gonna be bis, but you are more than good to go with the current obtainables, no matter the class.

Fang set is also BIS for MW monk afaik, and they're no joke in the lower brackets.

 

[Bestworld]

Fang set is also BIS for MW monk afaik, and they're no joke in the lower brackets.

Yes, I just cba to write everything in detail, point was that leather casters have a highly valuable BiS option in current obtainable, same for mail casters, hell, even hpals should get slitherscale.

 

[Scribbletube]

Yes, I just cba to write everything in detail, point was that leather casters have a highly valuable BiS option in current obtainable, same for mail casters, hell, even hpals should get slitherscale.

All good, just wanted to give the MW monk some more clout if anything, thing is a beast.

 

[Purj]

Hey bb

 

[Leek]

Feel the hatred of ten thousand yeeeeaaars

 

[Light]

With the enchant glitch being leaked for most classes bis is attainable, so don’t stress

 

[Allybeboba]

Feel the hatred of ten thousand yeeeeaaars

/cheers

 

[SPQR]

1. Rather active and pops most of the day. dies usually after 3am. Some epic bgs at 20-29 after 4pm sundays.

2. Class balance is decent bar few exceptions such as fury warriors, disc priests and arcane mages living that dream.

Premades are strong negative factor.

4. Dungeon bop gear scale to same ilevel so the only difference is secondary stats. Blue bg box gears are still best you can get now. world events scale to 20 so able to get items from love in the air, mid summer, brewfest and hollows end event.

5/6.

Dungeon scales to your level. 20s still get same total number available to them however if u level 60 you can que any vanilla dungeon and it will scale to your level.

Loot
Blues: character level +3 ilevels.
Greens: character level +3 ilevels but most of the times the greens you get are dropped as if you are level 16-19 so you endup with fewer ilevels from it overall.

some exceptions on world drop boe blue gear goes to +i6 but only from gnomeregan dungeon where you basically cheesing the system. Sometimes you get old unscaled i25 greens from dungens and rare mobs.

Values are off and difference between i24 and i26 for example basically none existing.
Hence you can get green bg ring with same amount of stats as blue ring.

There are several stages of rng regarding bg boxes. random slot item. random quality of item. random stats on item and random amount of said stats. So as an example you can get a blue ring with 3 vers and 1 crit and you can get a blue ring with 4 vers and 1 crit.

Also any future patch can remove or add those extra stats on blue gear retroactively so try get as many as you can.

Mic drop.