We are making good progress in our raiding. The raids seems to be a "notch" higher in difficulty. It does seem that for heroics, "most people" need to be sporting about 850ilvl gear, as the boss is preety punishing. Mats are preety expensive in Legion, and at this point in time, you have to farm the mats yourself. You probably should get the "harvester" shoulder enchant which you can buy probably with DreamWeavers vendor (needs some reputation). This will occasionally drop you some herbs... everytime you kill a mob. So in your daily questing, you will probably get a few bags of herbs, which can be used for flasks/potions and vantus runes. It will be months before the guild bank provides free raiding flasks/pots ... because everybody is still busy trying to get gear or quest to upgrade their artifact power and class halls to the max.
In general, to progress in heroics, the general norm is north of 200k to get pass maybe 4-5 heroic bosses. On the other note, we haven't been using our usual buffs in the raids. Most people are not using the newer flasks, the double-potions, the augment runes AND the vantus rune, and most people are using low level enchants. I hope people are starting to get their second "gold trait" from their weapon by now. If not, you probably need to start farming artifact power.
If you have some luck and get a legendary, it typically will give you a good boost. By the time we hit the 4th-5th heroic boss, I hope most of the raiders would have at least one legendary. The legendary drop has a "bad luck prevention roll", meaning your chances increases until you get one. Blue post indicate that the harder the content, the higher chances it will drop, so heroic -> raid -> world boss -> mythic+ caches/loot -> dailies loot > treasure boxes...etc ...etc ....
Vantus rune gives the raid a 1000 versatility buff, which is like a slight boss nerf. You can only use it on ONE particular raid boss per week. So this is a good item to use in progression.
Summery. Good progress. Get harvester shoulder enchants to try to get free herbs, which can be used for flasks/pots/ vantus runes. We probably will be needing this soon. Do a little LFR to get augment runes.
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