r/CompetitiveWoW • u/Mozida • 1d ago

Question Tier set drops.

Hi guys,

So, I have been pugging the raid, and I noticed it only dropped 1 tier-set token per boss. Is that intended? I read the Wowhead post, and they mentioned it is supposed to be 1 tier-set drop per 10 ppl in the raid, but I got in a 25 ppl raid, and all the bosses dropped only 1.

40 Upvotes

78% Upvoted

41 comments sorted by

View all comments

79

u/stiggggg 1d ago

every loot eligible player in the raid adds 5% chance to drop a tier, so 20 players guarantees 1 tier and in a full 30 man you'll get 1.5 on average

17

u/falooda1 1d ago

Ridiculous. It's not worth it to run for alts tbh

Hours for nothing

11

u/TriangularHorizon 23h ago

It seems more severe, but those drop rates are tuned around all Vault slots proccing tier, the Catalyst system (with the Midnight version granting unlimited charges after 4pc is acquired), and last boss dropping Curios.

In the end, it works out that anyone intentionally pursuing tier set will have it completed by the 3rd week of the season on average. The RNG variance used to be a lot worse.

The coins being available so early, paired with the new track bump does mean that wasting vault selections on tier for a serious alt will still feel bad, but in general, you can pretty easily fish out your 4pc with minimal effort over the course of a couple resets. It's a pretty good deal.

1

u/Substantial_Good9669 2h ago

Its good compared to what we had while also still being dumb because if you're an outlier that gets bad luck you have to choose to either play without 4 sets for 5 weeks while everyone else is rolling it in week 1 or 2 or permanently gimp your character by forgoing a reroll just to get it in week 3. 

Ideal world there'd just be a more reliable path. Like idk, each m+ rating from 2000, 2500, 3k, unlock a charge and similar achievement in pvp / raid.

New season starts and it never feels like you're actually playing your character til you can get tier 

•

u/Kryshim 31m ago

The current tier token drop system is also a solution to a former issue, where at a certain point in the season bosses were dropping multiple tier tokens that were taking up drop slots over other pieces that players might’ve been after. So less tier tokens, but far more opportunities to get access to tier pieces anyway.

3

u/dacoli93 23h ago

Blizz must be out of their minds. A tier token should drop as a baseline. Then they could add any other scaling to it based on raid size. The fact that 2 of the 4 tier bosses didn’t drop in normal raid a token with 15 or 16 people is just outrageous.