Originally Posted by
KillAllFrep
Tell me you've never tanked anything over Tier 2, without telling me you've never tanked anything over Tier 2. Either that or you're way overburdening your healers, you aren't getting anywhere close to Tier 3 or 4 mitigation caps on a Captain (or probably any tank, really) without slotting at least some mits, as well as maximising all mit gains from other sources and devoting all or most virtues to mits.
Regardless, my issue isn't primarily "why do we only have a junk option at 140, 8 months into an expansion" and more "why is there no parity between a player who missed - for whatever reason - a two week seasonal event, versus a player who did not. BiS items should not be tied to a two week window without no other way to acquire said gear ever again.
I took a break for a while, missed out, and now am penalised for it, that isn't a fun gameplay experience. If there isn't a catchup mechanic, BiS gear should not be dropping from limited time events.
I mean, you're missing out on 2 essence slots at most, even if you value incoming healing and finesse at zero. Means a guard would go from slotting 0 to 2 TMit essences and a Cappy from 2 to 4. T14 Vitality essences, anyway, are pretty inefficient--they've maybe 33% better than T13 Vitality essences while our morale pools have doubled. This was the compromise we got when they relented on their "no Vitality essences at L140" stance. The only reason we slot vitality is because mits are so easy to cap. Sure, the yellow ones won't be BiS, but you're missing out on a 1-1.5% morale increase. It's pretty negligible.
The low Vitality numbers are also why I wouldn't go with the Ember bracelets for DPS over Storv, either, though. You're basically trading away 43,000 crit to pick up 24,000 morale. Technically 1.5 essences of crit for 2 essences of vitality, but that's only if you value vitality and crit on DPS equally. Which, considering you probably wouldn't slot ANY Vit essences on a DPS really isn't the case. I'd rather have 1.5 slots worth of TMit on a DPS than 2 Vit, since our morale pools are bloated and Vit essences so poorly scaled.
But while I think Storv is BiS for DPS as well, it's less of a drop-off even than the tank ones to use the yellow barter ones.
I understand the desire for all-BiS for aesthetic/OCD reasons, though, and I think SSG does too. They put BiS stuff in seasonal content so people will keep playing and paying. Knowing that if people miss out, it's not going to be the difference between success and failure, anyway.
Last edited by Frisco; Jul 06 2022 at 07:43 PM.
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