The Netherlight Crucible allows new upgrades in World of Warcraft. However, many players have some objections to it.
Since yesterday, Wednesday (13.09.2017), the last story chapter of Argus is accessible in World of Warcraft. At the end, there is not only a cool cinematic with Alleria, but also the unlocking of a new feature: the Netherlight Crucible.
The Crucible allows players to further customize their artifact weapons – or more precisely, the artifact relics. Each individual relic receives a small talent tree, with which character attributes can be improved or additional effects (such as shadow damage or healing) can be added. In the end, there is even an additional “skill point” that can be used to improve certain properties of the artifact weapon.
More RNG with Relic Upgrades in WoW
The problem for many players: The properties are mostly determined by chance. Each relic has its own random talent tree in the Netherlight Crucible. Just not wanting more RNG – but that’s exactly what has been received.
Furthermore, many players are annoyed that they now have to visit the Netherlight Crucible with each relic to check whether the relic is really worth it. Because now, not only the item level of the relic matters, but also its talent tree.
If you really want to get the optimum out of this, you can’t avoid a lot of theorycrafting. Because maybe the relic of item level 930 is better than the one of item level 940, because it improves a particularly strong trait of the artifact weapon.
Others find it amusing that Blizzard has removed reforging from the game because you had to run to the reforging NPC for every new item. The fact that there is now such a concept again for artifact relics is seen as proof that “Blizzard doesn’t really know what they are doing”.
Cortyn says: Honestly, I’m pretty glad not to belong to the raid elite, because then the Netherlight Crucible would probably be an annoyance for me. For most “normal” players, however, the feature is just another way to squeeze out a few more percentage points of performance from the character without having to worry too much about every little detail. Therefore, I’m personally satisfied with the Netherlight Crucible.
Especially the comparison with reforging is a bit off, because here one really had to walk to the reforging NPC for each individual item. With the Crucible, you only have to do that when you receive a new relic – and that doesn’t happen every five minutes.
What do you think of the Netherlight Crucible? A cool addition for the artifact weapons? Or just more annoying RNG and grinding?
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