wow Catch-Up Gear in Patch 10.1.7

[Stan 5,240]

Every Dragonflight patch adds catch-up gear for returning players and 10.1.7 will be no different!

In Fury Incarnate, you can get two types of gear from vendors.

1. Rare Dreambound Veteran Gear (Item Level 402-424)
2. Epic Dreambound Champion Gear (Item Level 415-437)

Rare Dreambound Veteran Gear (Item Level 402-424)

• Purchasable from Celestine of the Harvest for Dreamsurges currency.
• 1 token costs 100 Dreamsurge Coalescence.
  • You can get the currency from killing rare elites and completing world quests in a Dreamsurge.
• The gear tokens are Bind to Account and you can send them to alts.

Epic Dreambound Champion Gear (Item Level 415-437)

• Purchasable from Archdruid Hamuul Runetotem for 1 Dreamsurge Chrysalis.
  • You can obtain 1 Dreamsurge Chrysalis by completing the weekly Dreamsurge quest.
  • The token in BoA and can be send to alts. The token is no longer BoA on the 10.1.7 PTR.
  • 1 piece of gear costs 1 token.

You will find more details about Dreamsurges in our deep dive.

[Grumar 188]

The upgrading system made a lot of the catch up great useless until these events start dropping good amount of crests and flightstones

[Ken007 97]

What I like about this is that you can do it on your main and send them to your alts. We need more of that, make as much account bind as possible.

Edited August 7, 2023 by Ken007

[TheCake 144]

My issue remains: Timed events, FOMO-esque "Be on time or you miss it"...
DF is LITTERED with it, having a WA to track timers for DF alone covers half a screen (From top to bottom) unless you remove things, and that's before they now add more.

Can we go back to having proper content, like "You can do scenarios whenever you want"? -
Like the corruption cloak, or even BFA-scenarios, torghast to an extent except it was weekly-portals up (Which I also found dumb, now they are ALL up; should have been from start).

Can we just STOP with all these timed things?
STOP the "FOMO".
Just let people play this as a game... and have fun... not stress, not schedule it like IRL... just... do whatever casual content when they want to.

Then, maybe someone will argue that said content is not "casual" content BECAUSE it is timed; then there's nothing to do for none-extreme pushers. There is no content to speak of, tbh.

Please. Just let us play the game when WE have time to.

EDIT:
Another "Argument" for why they keep it timed is because certain someones will farm it like they did with Artifact Power...
Just... stop balancing / making the game around those kinds of people... 😕

Edited August 7, 2023 by TheCake

[profion85 5]

So on 05/09/23 the patch will be release, nice!😃

[SpilledStars 71]

4 hours ago, Grumar said:

The upgrading system made a lot of the catch up great useless until these events start dropping good amount of crests and flightstones

Considering that my 80 year old dad probably can never Raid cuz his hands are too slow, the crests/flightstones is... i dunno, it's a fair question, maybe we can go farm Expedition Scout Packs for him.

Unless they start dropping Wyrm Crests though an awful lot of people are hitting a glass ceiling at 424 and it's solid as a rock.

[SpilledStars 71]

36 minutes ago, profion85 said:

So on 05/09/23 the patch will be release, nice!😃

I assume you're using int'l date and that's supposed to read 5 september 2023.

The idea that the time rifts have gotten so out-of-claw that such a vivid patch is dropping almost 3 months ago is giving me warm fuzzies, idk why 💕‼️

[SpilledStars 71]

4 hours ago, TheCake said:

not "casual" content BECAUSE it is timed; then there's nothing to do for none-extreme pushers.

Having verbally split their world into two types of players, I'm not entirely sure that Blizz thinks people like you and I and a couple of my pals - non-extreme players who would like to push content at our own slower pace - exist.

I play in this with about 85% of my free time (I also have a clicky game on my phone for when the rest of the world has been so wild even pet battles in WoW might sap me flat).  That's essentially never enough to do all the "do a lot of fun dungeon stuff, get a bunch of raider loot" on a couple or three characters;  the whim of which character I feel best at today is also something there.

gosh that's a heavy mouthful.   What word can I possibly use for this class of player style.  

Can't use "hardcore casual", I mean, it sounds interesting, but hardcore is a term of art meaning "when we say yolo you mean it!  if he dies he dies dead" and man o man do I respect those people.   If they brought that to retail I might even try to play it, but ummmmm i'll let the classic players beta/gamma test that out first.   

Possibly "Retired To Azeroth".  I mean, that's what my parents did.   Nah.  I know a few retirees who are push raiders of the sort they're really serving.    

Whatever word would go here, we're a bunch of people who are incidental heroes and drive ourselves crazy doing good in the world, it's just that the world is Azeroth.  And then we pop back out again and are refreshed in our lives.
 

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There is no content to speak of, tbh.

 

Now on this part I will actively and vividly disagree.

There is tons of content;  every past xpac too;  what we have is

1. that every thread of quest*(footnote) is so soaked, so trapped in "its own expansion" we never see anything ever again of its content ten seconds after we level past it
2. gosh, "level past it" seems to be increasing every week
3. old reputations, friendships, and freaktons of coinage aren't of any value in the current xpac or in fact any other land
4. Storyline.  Story is king, in Pandaria or in Legion content they were best IMO, but Northrend had good flavor in nooks and crannies,  IMO even classic did (and in at least one case I really rly miss it.  Can we have the Ashenvale evil warlock questline back please).   What we don't have is any incentive to complete questlines like this when our quest cap is 35.
5. why is quest count capped at all?  if it's a database issue can we have a quest count per xpac, and an extra one for "campaign", and an extra one for "daily/weekly", and an extra one for "profession" ?  (yes, I suspect it's possible to get near cap on profession quests alone)

...so much content, it hurts the brain to try to look at all of it at once.  

...so much content, half the lifetime of WoW ago, someone drew a bloody line in the sand that all the old content recipes weren't allowed to cross.  So there's no incentive.

The content is there, crying in its misty corners to be visited, and maybe loved.

* footnote:  expect the very late SL "return to lordaeron".  I want more of that "reasons to go places" questline
 

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Please. Just let us play the game when WE have time to.

From your mouth to Blizz's marketing-advisor ears.  

I just suspect the hard road to code meets... the unwelcome advisor.

[TheCake 144]

On 8/7/2023 at 9:30 PM, SpilledStars said:

Now on this part I will actively and vividly disagree.

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I said:
"Then, maybe someone will argue that said content is not "casual" content BECAUSE it is timed; then there's nothing to do for none-extreme pushers. There is no content to speak of, tbh."

Reading my own words back makes me realize I was rambling a bit.
I think my thought process was, if you remove all the timed events - Dragonflight has no proper content to speak of.
Does that make sense? Im not sure but I hope you get my line of thought at least, the thread I am trying to hold on to! ^^

I agree, 100%, with your points of the old content being there, there is so much POTENTIAL!!!

And I prefer the term "Old Hardcore, Now Casual with a Hardcore Brain" - to describe myself.
I do not REALLY push myself, but I also do - at the same time... I do make sure I get KSM, I also do 20+ mythics for portals --- but not ALL of them anymore this expansion so far -- I have instead "cherry picked" a few as "key points" of interest once DF is over, as I have all previous teleports from M+ too and hardly ever use them (Unless they make comebacks in the M+ roster-rotation!)
I use a feeeeeeewwww m+ portals, oldies, for convinience when I am going to "farm" something. Like old MoP to kill a rare for mount drop or so.
I've just realised; I do not NEED to catch them all... it can be nice to collect, but I don't NEED them. So I stopped pushing once I stopped regurarly playing with my friendos in high keys.
They still play 24+, but I have "retired" when I got with my BF, I just don't play enough to "Keep up" with them now.
So when I do go for a 20, it's with pugs.. and ... we all know how pugs can be XD
I also make sure to make new friends, ofc, but I am terribly introvert sometimes and just don't poke my friends to ask to do m+... it's weird. An issue I am aware I have, but no real solution to fix yet.

But yeah, I WISH they just "slowed down", like they insisted on hammering into us in MoP.
I - LOVED - MoP scenarios. I was weird for it, I guess, but I loved them.
I have the Heroic-scenario quest that gives chest-loot on some toons (If you MoP-level, you can get them still), and I just keep them there to share for future.
Its sad when they remove options like that...

I am so very happy the islands in BFA are kept, same with Torghast etc, for us to still do at our own time.
Just wish - wholeheartedly - that they stopped making schedules for us.. 😞
We're weird, I guess... but I suspect we're more than we think, who feel this way.

Many hugs to you!
 

[SpilledStars 71]

I'd love to be able to acquire "all the portals everywhere" and I'm vicariously enjoying that you're someone who has managed to get 'em like that.

Best I can do is consider the battlepetDungeon portals, because this pesky real world keeps distracting me.
 

On 8/9/2023 at 7:31 AM, TheCake said:

I also make sure to make new friends, ofc, but I am terribly introvert sometimes and just don't poke my friends to ask to do m+... it's weird. An issue I am aware I have, but no real solution to fix yet.

But yeah, I WISH they just "slowed down", like they insisted on hammering into us in MoP.
I - LOVED - MoP scenarios. I was weird for it, I guess, but I loved them.

My running crowd loved them because we often couldn't get 5 together, but we could get 3.
 

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I have the Heroic-scenario quest that gives chest-loot on some toons (If you MoP-level, you can get them still), and I just keep them there to share for future.
Its sad when they remove options like that...

Maybe they'll add such things back in someday.
 

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Just wish - wholeheartedly - that they stopped making schedules for us.. 😞
We're weird, I guess... but I suspect we're more than we think, who feel this way.

We can't and shouldn't be THAT weird, our money's as money as the next guy over.  

I just don't know who to get through to at ActiBlizz to convince anyone to ditch the polarity of attitude that translates as bleed-all-over-the-bleeding-edge or wander-around-lalala.   Not all who wander are lost.  
 

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I am so very happy the islands in BFA are kept, same with Torghast etc, for us to still do at our own time.

I am happy for this too.  I've got a guildie who never was up to the hype and speed run attitude for it when it was fresh content;  but now that she can outlevel it and she's pushing for Loremaster Everywhere, she's actually kind of enjoying it.  And this is considering there's no loremaster to be found IN either of them.

 

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Many hugs to you!

Aww, thanks.   See you in game!