Azurite is a REAL thing and my phone autocorrected to it when I posted this. Edit: All Azurite Trees are Here Currently.ĮDIT: I fucking KNOW its Azerite. Just leave a comment with the class you want me to check out and I'll get to it when I wake up in the morning. I just want to start the discussion early so we can get ahead of the puck here and avoid further issues.Īs an aside, if anyone has an interest in seeing what traits the current Azurite gear on Alpha has for a specific class, I'd be happy to hop on and check and get back to you. Traits will either have to be so insignificant that we don't really care about what's on a piece, or if they end up tuned higher than what I'm seeing on Alpha, a bad trait may kill an upgrade entirely.Īgain, this is all Alpha, and I'm well aware things are going to change. It feels like this goes against the "an upgrade should be an obvious upgrade" design philosophy. They seem to be gunning for mostly passive traits that don't significantly change your rotation unless stacked in a very specific way. In all likelihood a handful of traits are going to dominate or be overtuned, and the classes that end up with the best traits will be far ahead. Frankly in its current state, Azurite gear is not interesting enough to warrant that kind of bag space.Įven if most of these issues are addressed, I'm not looking forward to reunlocking traits that I have already unlocked. EDIT: You can now, but the cost is so significant you cannot gear swap effectively without collecting multiple copies of the same piece.īecause the loot is going to be push personal, to get this flexibility, you will need multiple copies of the exact same piece of gear, in three different slots. A Fire mage cannot go Frost, and a Prot warrior cannot DPS effectively. Now this piece of gear is less effective than it should be, and it CANNOT be changed.
The piece is meant to be yours, and is meant to have a "significant" impact on your spec. That means expect them to be distributed much in the same way as Legendaries and the Argus trinkets. Consider for a moment that Azurite gear is Push Personal loot. This just forces you to collect multiple copies of the same piece. As more gear comes out, we'll find ourselves hunting down specific pieces, but there is zero "choice" in a given piece. Since there is no difference between the traits offered for say a resto spec vs a tank or DPS spec, I just go down and select the three traits that say "you do more healing now". This is especially true for hybrid classes currently.
There is literally zero choice in the matter regarding your traits. So, my concern is specifically on where bullet points 2 and 3 create problems. Most of the traits fall at around 60-70% of the power you would expect in a gold trait. If I build my Azurite gear to DPS, it will be a subpar piece for tanking.~~This has been fixed The traits are not per spec, but rather linked to the piece of gear directly. Once you choose a trait, it is locked into that piece of gear forever. The 2nd row has 3 traits to choose from, then 2, with the final row increasing the ilvl of the Azurite Armor by 5. The top row has a Neutral Trait, then one trait designed to work with each of your specializations. Then more unlock at 4, 7, and 10.)Īs you move further down in the row, there are less options to choose from. Each row is unlocked by getting your Heart of Azeroth to a certain level (the one they start you with has the top row unlocked by default.
There are 4 rows of "Traits" for you to choose from. Here's a quick rundown of how Azurite gear functions: I realize that this is currently an Alpha, so a LOT is subject to change, but I wanted to start a discussion on this as soon as possible, since this is a core mechanic to the upcoming expac and I don't want another "Legion Legendary" situation where we are stuck with a broken design for most of an expac. As soon as my raid for the night ended, I hopped on as soon as I could to get a good look as to what's going on there. I logged into MMO-Champion today to see that Azurite gear was being introduced into the Alpha.
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