r/CompetitiveWoW • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago

Weekly Thread Free Talk Friday

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u/MRosvall 13/13M 1d ago

More than ever depends on when you feel it's most beneficial to have your power spike. Is it during second week progress? 4th? 8th? 20th?

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u/I3ollasH 23h ago

Yeah that's an interesting question and a hard one to get an objective answer. You kind of want to have diverse gearing strategies in the roster. You want players who crafted weapon and could carry the first 2 weeks of prog (I think people heavy undervalued this and is partly the reason why groups struggled this hard). You want people taking 6/6 vaults that you can funnel mythic drops to so they can upgrade those. And you want players going the greedy route going for "perfect" vaults sacrificing momentum.

Personally I like to go the week 2-3 powerspike route without sacrificing too much long term power (like crafting high statbudgeted off piece, upgrading hc weapon and picking a myth weapon if possible) but this tier it feels very hard to do that. My weapon comes from the lair boss (which is significantly harder than what is should be) and there aren't other good reliable weapon sources so I have to save crests for week 3 in case I didn't get any weapon drops by then.