If you watch the professional guilds of World of Warcraft playing, you might wonder. Because almost all of them only take one armor class with them.
These are the last days in World of Warcraft before the start of Season 2 and the opening of the raid “Battle of Dazar’Alor.” While most players are sitting on “hot coals” and looking forward to the start of the new raid, professional raiders are still in stress. The reason for this is the Titan Residuum, which makes “Split Raiding” a necessity again.
What happened? Players receive Titan Residuum when they disassemble Azerite gear. This material is needed to be able to buy the best Azerite gear from a vendor. Since prices are very high, large amounts of Titan Residuum are needed and therefore many Azerite items to disassemble.
Professional raiders therefore engage in what is called “Split Raiding.” They take only a handful of their main characters into the raid and fill the rest with secondary characters. Loot from the secondary characters is given to the main characters so that they can generate Titan Residuum from it.
Hotfix brought absolutely nothing: With a hotfix, the developers of World of Warcraft have now tried to limit farming a little. Therefore, cloth wearers (like mages) no longer receive Titan Residuum when disassembling armor for plate wearers in the scrapper.
Professional guilds like Method have already found a new response to this: They only take players of the same armor class. For example, the players of Method raid with 23 cloth wearers and only 2 tanks deviate from this. This way, all loot can be funneled to one or two characters, who can then convert it back into Titan Residuum.
This approach is repeated by the professional guilds with all armor categories (cloth, leather, chain, plate) for the maximum yield of the most important characters. They see it as a necessity to optimally start in the new raid.
Actually, Blizzard wanted to limit the necessity and profitability of “Split Raiding” with Battle for Azeroth. So far, this seems not to have succeeded.
Are you also diligently farming Titan Residuum to buy the best equipment right away? Or is this of no concern to you and you take it easy?
