The “Legacy Loot” system of World of Warcraft could become a greater disappointment. There seems to have been a communication problem.
Fans of transmogifications were already looking forward to the “Legacy Loot” system with Battle for Azeroth to get many cool items in the upcoming expansion of World of Warcraft. However, loot from Legion seems to be excluded, as the “Legacy Loot” system will only come into effect later.
What is “Legacy Loot”? With the “Legacy Loot” feature, Blizzard wants to give all players a way to farm old dungeons and raids while receiving a lot of loot to collect items for transmogification. Instead of getting just one item or none per boss like with “Personal Loot”, you will now drop 1-2 items in old dungeons and up to 4 items per boss in raids. This will speed up the completion of collections.
Legacy Loot does not apply to the latest expansion. In the Q&A with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, it was clarified that Legacy Loot does not apply to the latest expansion, but only for the following one, that is, for the penultimate one (currently for “Mists of Pandaria”).
Players initially thought this was a bug from Patch 8.0, that they received too little loot in the raids of “Warlords of Draenor”, but it has now been confirmed: This is intentional.
Communication problem to blame. According to Hazzikostas, there was probably a communication problem during the presentation of the “Legacy Loot” system. Players (and news sites) assumed that the system would come into effect with “10 levels difference or more.” That is not the case, as the bonus loot rules apply only when you are “more than 10 levels” (so a minimum of 11) below the current content. That has always been the plan and was just conveyed incorrectly.
What do you think of this “change” to the system, which was actually always planned? Completely absurd or a good thing to keep things from the last addon still “valuable”?
