Comments on: Patch 3.3 – Emblems, The Other Currency

By: Java

Java — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:03:43 +0000

Correct, that was the option taken previously one little difference today being that it’s not 10 levels it’s only 5 this time around.

By: Jarnow

Jarnow — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:11:44 +0000

Wouldn’t the solution just be to tune the quests for lvls 80-82 or so such that they could be do-able with Northrend questing greens and blues (and therefore laughable for WotLK raiders), and have the quest rewards from those quests be IC-level? Then from 82-85 the difficulty could ramp up sharply, with all players being on fairly even footing.

Isn’t that more or less what’s happeneed before? I wasn’t around pre-Wrath, but it seems to me that people discussing leveling, for example, tell you to go straight to Outland at 58 rather than trying to do the Vanilla instances b/c the quest rewards are so good.

BTW this is my first time here, I think I like it!

By: Java

Java — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:02:34 +0000

@ LargeRichard. Seriously I just laughed. That would be pretty funny actually.

By: LargeRichard

LargeRichard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:33:05 +0000

I wonder if the changes to stats that are reportedly coming with the expansion (no AP on gear, no SP etc.) will cause this current gear to be obsolete, forcing all of us to upgrade when we start questing. This would put all of us on pretty much the same page once Cataclysm comes out as well as not forcing them to make the quests that much harder. However with only 5 levels to gain harder quests or forcing groups etc. will lengthen the questing process.

By: Darkbrew

Darkbrew — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:56:22 +0000

This is something I’ve wondered about myself. My thoughts are this. If I were to logoff today (wearing mostly iLvl 232 and 245 gear) and not logon again until Cataclysm, that I will be more than geared to start the leveling process.

I doubt that Blizzard will tune the quests to accommodate folks having Icecrown gear as that can penalize a player who dings 80 just as Cataclysm arrives. Certainly those Worgen and Goblins can’t be expected to raid Icecrown in order to level to 85.

I think the reward of having Icecrown gear will be you get to keep it a lot longer and just get extra gold from vendoring or DE’ing your quest rewards.