The Azerite system and all it failings IS the equivalent of the Legion Legendary system. The problems are obvious, and so are the solutions, but you can bet your ass that they wont be fixed til 9.0 pre-patch.

I'm sure all the folks who got fucked on their mandatory 2 that made their specs competitive at all thought the same on the bench. Nothing drove people harder from Legion than watching other players completely trashcan you on a pull because they got lucky months before you did.

Did everyone collectively remove early Legion from their memory? Reaching 35 on just one weapon for Helya progression was a more brutal grind than anything BFA has to offer, completely disregarding Legendaries, relics, NLC, etc. All your power comes from the first two rings anyways, and it won't take the more casual players longer than a week or so to reach ~22/23. This new system is lazy and uninspired but its not even in the same ballpark compared to what you had to grind out for Legion.

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