Kingkiller71
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I'm not sure if it is me always being a couple of expansions behind but I'm finding more and more often that by the time I'm good enough to beat certain group content, the loot that it drops isn't really an upgrade for me anymore.
For example, I spent ages getting Griklor on a high success rate, but since I've managed to do that, the loot that he drops (other than the TS items) seem bleh! It seems that by having to buy upgrades from future expansions just to be able to beat Griklor in the first place is diminishing the quality of the drops to just being upgrades for an alt. It got me thinking that it's always been like this for me (at least since I came back in 2020 to do the Hunter achievements) - always requiring over-geared to beat the target then to find that I've now moved beyond the loot that then drops. I now see dropping the mob itself as being the reward rather than the loot.
So, the question is - for you people that play in the latest expansion pack as soon as it is released, do you ever get ahead of the curve and get real upgrades after beating a named? Or is it always the case of buying / making gear first to beat the named, and then selling / gearing up alts with the drops?
I suspect the answer may lie in the fact that I'm missing a lot of AAs and progression Heroic stats which may flip my situation, but I'm not that keen to spend weeks / months chasing every aug / HA stat I can only to find that you still end up behind the curve anyway.
For example, I spent ages getting Griklor on a high success rate, but since I've managed to do that, the loot that he drops (other than the TS items) seem bleh! It seems that by having to buy upgrades from future expansions just to be able to beat Griklor in the first place is diminishing the quality of the drops to just being upgrades for an alt. It got me thinking that it's always been like this for me (at least since I came back in 2020 to do the Hunter achievements) - always requiring over-geared to beat the target then to find that I've now moved beyond the loot that then drops. I now see dropping the mob itself as being the reward rather than the loot.
So, the question is - for you people that play in the latest expansion pack as soon as it is released, do you ever get ahead of the curve and get real upgrades after beating a named? Or is it always the case of buying / making gear first to beat the named, and then selling / gearing up alts with the drops?
I suspect the answer may lie in the fact that I'm missing a lot of AAs and progression Heroic stats which may flip my situation, but I'm not that keen to spend weeks / months chasing every aug / HA stat I can only to find that you still end up behind the curve anyway.