The loot in World of Warcraft is likely to change significantly. Because hardly anyone will select anything from the treasure chamber anymore.
Anyone who plays World of Warcraft knows that Wednesday is always a special day. Because that is when the weekly treasure chamber opens and rewards a strong item that increases one’s item level and is oriented towards the content completed in the previous week.
However, with Patch 12.1 Curse of Ula’tek, this is likely to change. Because the consolation prize will almost always be better than the real reward.
What is happening in Patch 12.1? In Season 2 of Midnight, there is a new feature that has not existed before. Because right from the start, there will be “Bonus Rolls”. These are items that can be earned and then used on a boss or other loot content (like raids or dungeons) to guarantee a piece of equipment.
The regular bonus rolls will only come into play from week 8 of the season, but there is already another way to obtain these rolls: The great treasure chamber. If none of the item options appeal (and at least 3 options have been unlocked), one can instead choose a Void Core to get a bonus roll.
Bonus rolls are more powerful – because they have a memory
Why is this useful? Items obtained via a bonus roll are already further upgraded, thus more powerful than most usual items that can be acquired from a boss.
In addition, bonus rolls have their own “memory” of what has been obtained through them. If you use the bonus roll on a boss, you are guaranteed to receive an item that you have not yet obtained through a bonus roll. This way, you can gradually rule out which items are still missing and work towards a specific piece of loot.
This does not apply when taking items from the great treasure chamber. If you choose, for example, the gloves that can drop from a boss and later use a bonus roll on that boss, you can receive the gloves again. This would then mean that a bonus roll is “wasted”. The only way to avoid this is to directly choose the bonus roll and gain items through that.
When does one still take something from the treasure chamber? The cases where one still takes an item from the treasure chamber should be rare. Probably especially when it is a specific, still missing “Best in Slot” item, or if one already has a strong weapon in the treasure chamber early in the season.
Of course, one can also ignore the bonus rolls and always choose items from the treasure chamber – but that is simply no longer the most efficient way and is therefore hardly chosen by the pros anymore.
Will you always rely on bonus rolls in the future? Or will you continue to choose loot from the treasure chamber?
Cortyn thinks: Honestly, I see this as quite a problem with the treasure chamber, which can devalue this type of progress significantly. Until now, the treasure chamber was always the one big reward of the week that players looked forward to. If now the normal state becomes that you always take the “consolation prize” to get another bonus roll, it’s quite disappointing and probably not what the developers originally intended.
Basically, I find the bonus roll system quite good, and it has especially enhanced the second half of Season 1 in Midnight. However, these rolls should not come from the treasure chamber – because then they devalue the actual loot that can be obtained. Until then, there are still a few things that should definitely be done before Patch 12.1…
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