Collectors in Azeroth are happy. Those who enjoy collecting transmogifications will be able to pursue their passion again with WoW: Battle for Azeroth.
Since patch 7.3.5 of World of Warcraft the entire world scales with the player’s level. This also applies to dungeons, where the rules of “Personal Loot” have been in effect since then, meaning: Each player receives individual rewards, but only items that their character can use.
However, the “Personal Loot” system also brought some problems, especially for gear collectors. With Personal Loot, a player can only receive items that are useful for their own class. Mages, for example, can only find cloaks that have intellect, while rogues can only acquire leather armor that has agility as a stat. However, if the mage wants to have the nice cloak with agility as a look (which they could at least equip), they cannot obtain it.
Legacy Loot System for Old Content
Blizzard has heard the players’ criticism and promised to introduce a “Legacy Loot System” with Battle for Azeroth. This means that loot in dungeons and raids will be distributed differently when the content is trivial for the respective character – that is, at least one expansion behind. Specifically, the following changes are expected:
- The number of items that can drop from a boss is as high as if you were present with a full group.
- For raids with flexible sizes (like LFR), there will be as many items as if you were present with 20 players.
- All items on the loot list have a chance to drop from the boss, not just items for your own specialization.
- If you are with multiple players in the group, the loot will be divided but will be tradeable. For example: If you defeat a boss with two players and 4 items drop, each player receives 2 items, which can be traded.
The change is expected to go live with Battle for Azeroth, likely with the major pre-patch 8.0, which will probably go live in late summer 2018. Until then, collecting transmog gear unfortunately remains a struggle.
Are you looking forward to being able to collect transmogs more effectively soon? Or is the change coming too late?
