i have spent over 7k gold in reforges over the last 3 weeks.
no shame.
damn fire mages and their ridiculous amounts of build options.
and damn my itch for trying to min/max to the max.
now that I'm raider i could probably tone it down... but hell naw.
on that note..
i was debating on going arcane for a while.... then we got hit with the ptr build that allows us to upgrade each item 2 more times..
since i haven't been back long, i JUST got done upgrading my other stuff and was debating on upgrading my arcane set... the other fire mage in my guild was also upgrading his arcane set.
good thing they announced this shit mid raid, so we could save w.e we had left for the week lol. i didn't end up upgrading a single piece, but he had been upgrading as of last week, so thats 1k wasted valor =/
this change means that i am now locked into my primary spec... and since my arcane needs a good 7 items to fully upgrade... I'm pretty much locked into fire for months.
which i don't mind since it scales well (not as well as arcane, but I'm fine with it).
many of the other fire mages in the world are locked in as well.. however not as locked as i am, since most of them have fully upgraded arcane sets and haven't been back for 2 months lol.
eh I'm fine with it, but it would have been cool to at least try arcane before the 6.0 patch lol now if its strong ill be even more rusty at the spec, but at least i set up my UI for it, which helps a ton.
there are probably others in my exact situation.
im also under geared compared to everyone else atm, sitting at 576 (a high 576 but yeah), now that I'm eligible for war forged stuff, that should rise soon. (still got the heroic war forged dagger off of paragons the other night =D our arcane mage gave it to me, because he's awesome, he also gave me the heroic black blood).
onto of my ilvl being low for my situation, im still missing the heroic boots from shamans, not even war forged.. just the regular heroic lol, with those boots I'm heroic bis, with 2 HWF items, meaning there are TONS of upgrades left for me.
so as more war forged items come, those will need to be upgraded 4 times lol, then the replacement items to my ALREADY upgraded 4 times items, will need to be upgraded 4 times lol.....
not to mention if i ever get those boots... thats 4 upgrades right there and thats just upgrading my heroic protectors boots... then the HWF shamans boots might come along AFTER THAT.
making that 2 more upgrades for my protectors boots (non bis), assuming the shamans boots don't drop this week or the next and i don't get them if they do (which i should since i don't even have HWF boots and the other mages do, assuming the patch is out within the next 2 weeks), then 4 more if i get the boots, then 4 more if i get the HWF boots after that.
just an example lol i will upgrade my current boots last, just so i could hold off to see if shamans decide to not be assholes in the coming weeks.
i have a headache.
avoid everything i said lol.
tldr- upgrades suck, I'm going to be fire till WOD beta, which I'm cool with but yeah, damn yo.
i hope everyone else locked in their specs lol, or at least those who are semi in my situation in terms of being valor starved. (capping valor every week for 2 months since I've been back, currently have 610 saved up for the patch, which I'm assuming will be here within 2-3 weeks, meaning ill have around 6 upgrades day of)
technically, this wouldn't be an issue for everyone, but i like to be the best that i can be, and currently, my fire set heavily outgears and out upgrades my arcane set, so i don't want to fall behind even farther than i am now.
especially when i just started to catch up.
but i love my main spec, as previously stated, so I'm fine =p
just wanted to give my other specs a try so I'm less rusty, technically i haven't played them in a year lol, but am up to date on everything, including optimal builds etc. as i should be.
my class has had a history of having to play a specific spec for a tier then swap the next, and sometimes the swapped spec hadn't been played in 2 tiers, or was just completely different, so everyone was rusty.
best example would be t14 arcane after the combustion nerf.
and since we are getting changes in WOD (not too many in terms of our core gameplay tbh), i feel many will be rusty anyway, especially the other fire mages who have played the spec this tier and nothing else.