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There’s even some logic to the idea of the Great Vault as the expansion of the weekly reward from Mythic+ taking over that role. This isn’t me stamping my feet and demanding my toy back - I find it unlikely that the bonus roll will return, especially since the Great Vault is already in the game and we’re getting the expansion in around a month. And I understand why Blizzard would feel like bonus rolls were primarily used to try for upgrades like Titanforged or Corrupted items, and with those kinds of random upgrades no longer in the game, we don’t need bonus rolls. I understand that there may be some redundancy between bonus rolls and the Great Vault system. Of course, there could be further adjustments to all of this in the weeks to come before Shadowlands launches. For example, we’re currently targeting item level 213 for Challenger-level PvP, Heroic raiding, or Mythic Keystone dungeons at the +7 difficulty. The design intent is for all three paths to provide parallel progression over the course of a tier, while providing players who engage in multiple paths at a comparable level a faster advancement experience.

While outdoor world gameplay and professions offer a range of epic gear, the very strongest loot in WoW comes from the three organized multiplayer endgame progression paths: Rated PvP, Mythic Keystone dungeons, and raiding. Non-raiders should also factor in the Great Vault, as completing a Mythic Keystone +15 will award a choice of up to three item-level 226 pieces from the Great Vault.Ĭurrently in the Shadowlands Beta / first tier of the expansion, PvP loot for top ratings caps out at item level 226. Following the proclamation “let loot be loot”, we’re entering into a world without Warforging and Titanforging, where getting an item from relevant content should feel rewarding on its own more often, without needing to hope for random upgrades.īonus rolls no longer exist, and the Great Vault captures the value they used to provide to raiders. I’d like to take a step back on this subject and look at the big picture.Īs has been observed in the Beta, loot quantities overall are reduced in Shadowlands. As you may have already deduced from the preceding paragraphs, this is not a change that I’m happy with.

So of course it’s going away in Shadowlands. The bonus roll system hasn’t been perfect - far too often it resulted in gold or AP instead of a drop - but there have definitely been times it’s saved me from yet another fruitless exercise in killing a boss and getting nothing to show for it, an experience that haunted my steps for years.īonus rolls were a rare beacon of light in a process that often seemed designed to make you unhappy: namely the punishingly random loot system of World of Warcraft. This has been a godsend for players who were unlucky and it’s been one of my favorite pieces of bad luck protection since its inception. The bonus roll has, over the course of its existence, used a kind of currency as a token: as long as you had one of the various kinds of Seals of Fate - Seals of Wartorn Fate in Battle for Azeroth for example - you could use one to get a bonus roll, which could give you gold, artifact power, or an actual item for your talent specialization. One of the most enduring legacies of Mists of Pandaria has been the bonus roll system, which gave you another chance to roll for loot when a boss died, literally an additional chance to roll against the boss’ loot table.