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Source: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2418-Patch-4.3-Deathwing-Transmogrifier-Void-Storage


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Patch 4.3 - Deathwing, Transmogrifier, Void Storage
Tom Chilton (Kalgan) answered a couple of questions from Gamona.de on Patch 4.3, and we got a bunch of very interesting news out of it. Patch 4.3 will feature:

- New Raid - The Deathwing raid, making it very likely to be the last patch before the next expansion.

- 3 new 5-man instances - Including one in the Caverns of Time. (War of the Ancients was mentioned as a cataclysm instance a few years ago, but a lot of things have changed since then, who knows!)

- The Transmogrifier NPC, which will let you change the appearance of any armor piece on you, while retaining the stats of your current gear. (= T12 stats, but with the Tier 2 look!)

- Players won't be able to change the appearance of their armor into another armor type or class armor set, and you might have to own the armor before you can use it to swap the appearance of your existing armor.

- The Void Storage is a new type of bank where players will be able to store their old armors in order to free up space in their regular bank.

- The Abyssal Maw dungeon is gone for the moment, the storyline wasn't convincing enough/fitting.


 

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well this is awkward

we posted this at the same time

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i'm just lol'ing at this

I like the transmorgifier but i wish they would still add dyes like.. seriously


and more 5 mans hopefully none of them are re-hashes


and i am sad that void storage is just for armor and not a cross realm thing

 

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Hehe yeah posted the same minute - must have pressed enter like a split second before you tongue

And yeah, gear appearance customization is a long overdue feature.

 

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Dwarf warrior in Dreadnaught Battlegear..oh how I have missed you!! love

I wonder if they are only doing sets or if its going to be mix and matchable. I have a worry that they will go the easy route and limit it to sets.

Nice feature..should have been here years ago.....

And..oh yeah Deathwing..I forgot about him.....hahaha. tired

 

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Good job on catching up to Aion and Rift on the transmogrifier happy . Glad to see they are adding it finally. You can bet people will be farming old armor sets.

More dungeons finally.
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It's a good thing my priest has an awesome set to transform into! Ohhhhh waaaaaiiiit :\

 

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"The Void Storage is a new type of bank where players will be able to store their old armors in order to free up space in their regular bank."


YES THANK YOU!

 

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This should be incentive for people to not only do dungeons but go out into the world and farm gear sets. Believe it or not, there are non-dungeon/raid armor sets from random loot drops.

I still have a set of Twill armor on a mule, gonna bring sexy back.

 

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The_Korrigan posted:


And yeah, gear appearance customization is a long overdue feature.


Yes! About freakin' time!

 

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LMAO!!!!!!! After years of blizzard telling players they would not do this, and years of 1000+ post threads/petitions by players, and blizzard still saying they would not do this:


Flash forward to a one million subscription loss and all of the sudden blizzard finally wants to do this! laugh


But I DO HAVE TO ADMIT, this is an incredibly smart move on blizzard's part as I have always thought that this one aspect was always literally the single most important thing blizzard could do to turn their losses around and get players back.


Good thing I kept all that cool azz looking gear on on my toons, I may start playing again grin


Very good find Korrigan. This is news I think we've all been waiting for.


So glad I did not delete any of my DK armor sets or the awesome looking priest tier 9 (horde side, alliance's was fugly grin )

 

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So glad I did not delete any of my DK armor sets or the awesome looking priest tier 9 (horde side, alliance's was fugly grin )




DAMMIT the DK starting gear always looked the best IMO and i vendored it after going through BC

 

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Elaok posted:
Spookysheep posted:

So glad I did not delete any of my DK armor sets or the awesome looking priest tier 9 (horde side, alliance's was fugly grin )




DAMMIT the DK starting gear always looked the best IMO and i vendored it after going through BC



Yeah, I bet a lot of people did. But you can always go back and farm TOC 5 man and get the full set that exactly matches what the Ebon Blade quartermaster is wearing. I've always thought it was the epitome of what the DK should look like:


http://www.wowhead.com/compare?items=47220:47495:47197:47565:47229:47502:47511:47176#.

 

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Makes you wonder how many of these old, popular customer enhancement requests they have lying around to trickle out to keep subs from falling too fast.

 

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To late for me this still wont get me to reup my subscription. I find it annoying they do this stuff after 7 years.

 

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Interesting fact that Deathwing Raid will be part of this patch, and the fact that it might sound like they have to scrap another Raid. I wonder if the scrapping of the Raid has nothing to do with how it worked, but just much more to do with the fact that they want to now move past Cata as fast as possible and get onto the next Expansion, and hence just didn't have time to really fit the other raid into the game, even if it was not quite what they wanted.

 

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i don't really like the gear appearance customization since i think its a fun part of the strategic pvp to adjust my tactics based on telling whether a person has offensive or defensive gear equipped. call me old fashioned but i think its fun if you have to factor in how gear looks in addition to stats when choosing what to wear...i don't really like too much cookie cutter.

but that aside, it sucks that i have already destroyed or sold a lot of awesome looking gear that i have outleveled to make bank space....stuff that even though its from the older expansions i am unable to acquire again while solo. if they put this change in and i am unable to acquire any of the cool looking gear that i used to own again easily, it is the kind of thing that might make me not want to play

 

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About damn time Blizzard, welcome to what other devs figured out a few years ago!

Anyway, this makes me have to consider playing my Pally again as I always was a big fan of the Judgement set thinking

Edit: I have a feeling they will "grandfather" armor sets you can no longer obtain (Starter DK gear for example) or are from older expacs/content while applying the "must already own it" condition to sets from current and last expac. Something along those lines makes sense.

 

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[tos_profanity].

I just deleted ALL of my old armor sets dating back to BC about 3 weeks ago.

 

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All they need to do to "catch" up to Rift, is to have all the old armor sets available for hundreds of thousands of gold. Then add the classic Blizz-twist of demanding 6-months worth of faction farming.

And knowing Blizzard, they will microtransaction some of the starter sets as well as the vanilla ones. Especially raid sets. wink


PS: glad they've finally added this. Not enough to affect our resubbing though.

 

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They're going to have to do better than giving us the ability to play dress up with our e-dolls to get me to come back.

 

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JaconKin posted:
Interesting fact that Deathwing Raid will be part of this patch, and the fact that it might sound like they have to scrap another Raid. I wonder if the scrapping of the Raid has nothing to do with how it worked, but just much more to do with the fact that they want to now move past Cata as fast as possible and get onto the next Expansion, and hence just didn't have time to really fit the other raid into the game, even if it was not quite what they wanted.


I was having this exact conversation earlier today. Still, it seems a long, long time between now and the next expansion. I wonder what if they have anything planned to coincide with SWKOR and GW2 launches.

P.S. This kind of sucks for druids...

TruthyID posted:
They're going to have to do better than giving us the ability to play dress up with our e-dolls to get me to come back.


This is definitely some low hanging fruit. Not that hard to implement, and a lot of people will be pumped by this... Over 7 years Wow has released some pretty cool armor skins.

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I still have a set of Twill armor on a mule, gonna bring sexy back.


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Awesome I can go back to my shiny level 60 vanilla WoW Hunter Grand Marshal PVP gear look for PVP!

And like someone else mentioned there is going to be a whole lot of people farming old raids to collect sets if it ends up being required.

What they should do though is have it only for converting new set pieces to old set piece look not just any armour piece to an old set piece look.

Hmm? I have to look in storage and see what I still have, think I might have the MC set for my Pally and most of the pieces from Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.

 

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Sociop posted:
Awesome I can go back to my shiny level 60 vanilla WoW Hunter Grand Marshal PVP gear look for PVP!

And like someone else mentioned there is going to be a whole lot of people farming old raids to collect sets if it ends up being required.

What they should do though is have it only for converting new set pieces to old set piece look not just any armour piece to an old set piece look.

Hmm? I have to look in storage and see what I still have, think I might have the MC set for my Pally and most of the pieces from Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.




Uh, why? There are plenty of current armor sets that I would love on my Ret Paladin, that don't match *at all* because the Boots/Belt are always DK or Warrior skins. Same goes for off-set pieces that don't match. Under your "idea" I would HAVE to go back to t1-t6, and be unable to use current gear to make a matching set, that I can't do under current circumstances.

 

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Of course, there is a HUGE chance that blizzard will screw this up.

I foresee them making arbitrary restrictions that defeat the whole point, or not letting you change weapon looks (only armor), or any other number of stupidities that only blizzard B team could do.

 

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The picture shows them with old weapons, so there is a chance. It might just be for the picture, but who knows.

 

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Looking through the old blue trackers on this topic, I found this kind of funny:


http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/163380/the-appearance-tab-years-and-no-blue-posts

"This isn't an appropriate way to get our attention."


LOL, yep, about a million people dropping their subs does the trick though happy

 

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This is awesome! OMG I would LOVE to have my warlock sporting another seasons gear! I can't remember which one atm... but the one with the random wings that come out of the helmet!

 

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To be fair, it's not an appearance tab.


Also, after actually READING the FAQ for the Transmogrifier...


"Similarly, they won’t allow you to change weapon or armor types. Sneaky death knights can’t make that breastplate look like a cloth robe, and you can’t make a one-handed axe look like a two-handed axe, or transform a sword’s appearance into that of a mace. Guns, bows, and crossbows will be the exception to this rule. You will finally be able to retain your dwarf’s racial gun bonus while appearing with all the splendor and elegance of a bow wielder (or at least the relative silence of one)."


So yeah, you can change weapons.

 

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i don't really like the gear appearance customization since i think its a fun part of the strategic pvp to adjust my tactics based on telling whether a person has offensive or defensive gear equipped. call me old fashioned but i think its fun if you have to factor in how gear looks in addition to stats when choosing what to wear...i don't really like too much cookie cutter.
Old fashioned is actually the opposite. In "old school" MMOs like UO and AC, you could choose the appearance as well as the stats. You could look like you wanted and have the "best" stats. This is actually going back to old school.

PS: if they really make this work on weapons, we gonna see a ton of dual wielded thunderfury... but it would be cool to be able to use the DK blue starter sword skin, best "runic sword" skin of the game.

 

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SO glad I kept this crap in my bank on my DK:

All my future 2h swords will be:

http://www.wowhead.com/item=28367#.


Future 2h maces:

http://www.wowhead.com/item=14531#.


Now to find a cool axe model.

 

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This is awesome! OMG I would LOVE to have my warlock sporting another seasons gear! I can't remember which one atm... but the one with the random wings that come out of the helmet!




Season 3 happy



but on my gnome lock.

 

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I always liked how it was in Aion where you destroyed the item and it transferred the look to the new item.

 

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Sword:
http://www.wowhead.com/item=38632

Now I wonder what the next step will be... housing in the Mists of Pandaria, maybe?

Oh, and a little quote from a blue on the European thread about this feature:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2808997?page=1#c-2560206309

Takralus posted:
@Devlin: At this time, we don't plan to allow legendary items to be transmogrified. Legendaries should always be identifiable on sight.
So thanks god, we don't have armies of TF wielding kiddies in SW/OG!

 

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Too little, too late.

For me, I think the ship has sailed. My problems are not with fluff anyways, but Dev design, attitude and The Vision.

 

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But I DO HAVE TO ADMIT, this is an incredibly smart move on blizzard's part as I have always thought that this one aspect was always literally the single most important thing blizzard could do to turn their losses around and get players back.


It's a cool feature but hardly something people base whether they play a game or not over and certainly not why people are getting tired of WoW.

Lack of new content at a decent pace is way more of a big deal.

Cata just being a bad expansion that no patching can correct is more of a big deal.

 

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I can't wait to resurrect my inactive account from 2008 to play with gear customization! whistling

 

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Fedup23 posted:
Dwarf warrior in Dreadnaught Battlegear..oh how I have missed you!! love

I wonder if they are only doing sets or if its going to be mix and matchable. I have a worry that they will go the easy route and limit it to sets.

Nice feature..should have been here years ago.....

And..oh yeah Deathwing..I forgot about him.....hahaha. tired


I want to recreate the hooker look casters had with early BC greens, to hell with the sets

 

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I've been fiddling with the game for a few weeks, but this one change definitely will bring me back to play a lot more. My priest's look for Cata disgusted me, I couldn't even play em. Now being able to customize his looks has me all excited. I always loved this feature in LOTRO.

Once my priest looks exactly as I want him, I'll go to another character. Ultimately, it's a GREAT reason to do the old content, which I've always loved. I have a few friends who are also excited about it and are coming back. Maybe we can still squeeze some fun out of this game.

And for all the time, energy, and money I've invested into it, I think that's a really good thing.

 

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To late for me this still wont get me to reup my subscription. I find it annoying they do this stuff after 7 years.


This.......... Had Blizzard been more willing to listen. A lot of people might still be playing. I remember a post about a mile long on the early Warcraft boards where people were asking about gear customization. Lots of folks were miffed that sometimes you "had" to settle for a piece of gear that looked horrible but you had to wear it because of the stats needed. I know there will be a lot of happy WoWer's.....good move on their part. I guess its better late, than never.

 

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i am sad that i can't make leather armor look like cloth. back in the vanilla days i loved wearing the goblin rocket helmet cause it looked so badass. if i could wear that skin on my rogue again it would be epic...but alas it is cloth armor technically i believe. it would be cool if they make some sort of exception for trade skill helmets like that.

 

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FINALLY!!!!

ANOTHER CARROT!!!

 

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Guess falling subs are good motivation to do things you said you would never do.

 

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Umm...can you add a pvp gear appearance to pve gear? the priest pvp shoulder wings set? Coolest priest armor evar.

 

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Umm...can you add a pvp gear appearance to pve gear? the priest pvp shoulder wings set? Coolest priest armor evar.


Sure can. Dev just said it last night.

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#182 - 2011/08/19 02:08:00 AM

08/18/2011 06:57 PMPosted by Kologarn
1. I've been hearing that the new gear swapping feature won't work for pvp gear. That isn't true, right? happy


That isn't true. Mogging will work with PvP gear. You can even swap the look of PvP gear to PvE and vice versa.

Sorry, I know I didn't address the rest of your concerns. I just don't have good or quick answers for them right now. <3

 

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i saw on the official boards a couple threads about the idea of having an option in the interface menu to turn off all appearance customizations from showing. like if you checked that box then you would see the default skins for what everyone is wearing. i would love if they did that...that way everyone could get what they want

 

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i saw on the official boards a couple threads about the idea of having an option in the interface menu to turn off all appearance customizations from showing. like if you checked that box then you would see the default skins for what everyone is wearing. i would love if they did that...that way everyone could get what they want


Having a hard time imagining why anyone would want this. I am far too tired of all the clones so anything that breaks up the visual boredom is a welcome change.

 

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i saw on the official boards a couple threads about the idea of having an option in the interface menu to turn off all appearance customizations from showing. like if you checked that box then you would see the default skins for what everyone is wearing. i would love if they did that...that way everyone could get what they want


I love the idea of people being able to change the look of their gear, basically creating a "gear stealth" mode so scrubs that like pre-determined PVP fights wouldn't have at-a-glance intel on what a player might be capable of. grin

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well i think it would feel strange seeing so many people running around in clown sets. im sure many people will be trying to put together the strangest appearances using a mix of lowbie green item skins. seeing someone at max level with the best gear in the game but running around in mismatched tattered-looking armor takes away from what little immersion the game has left.

that of course translates into the strategy element of being able to select targets based on the type of gear they are wearing. of course for some scrubs that bit of strategy is too much too handle so it could be a welcome change for them.

i don't think situations like that mooncloth robe "gear stealth" idea could happen since in the system with gear reskinning it would be common knowledge that what you see is not what you get.

anyways thats why i think having that checkbox option would be nice. ideally it would be nice to have more choices in what your gear looks like, but clown suits are not the solution in my opinion.

 

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A cool feature, and I'm glad it's making people excited. But it's an interesting state of affairs when being able to make your character look like it did several years ago is one of the best things to happen to the game in a long time.

The thing I'm concerned about is that is this another cheap way of making the player base farm for stuff? Remember what a pain random tier drops are - so that means I'm running Molten Core solo for weeks on end to get gear so I can look that way? I really hope not.

 

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thats probably exactly why they are doing it! there will probably be a tab like the pet or mount tab where you click an item to learn its skin. and achievements of course!

 

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I think anyone who is whining about not being able to tell how geared someone at a glance is one of those losers who only attack someone if they know they will win.

 

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I think anyone who is whining about not being able to tell how geared someone at a glance is one of those losers who only attack someone if they know they will win.

 

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To late for me this still wont get me to reup my subscription. I find it annoying they do this stuff after 7 years.


^ Couldn't agree more.

Though WoW is still the 500 lb mmo gorilla, I think we're finally starting to see them feel the pressure from games like Rift, and the upcoming SWTOR and GW2. Too bad they didn't do stuff like this when I still actually wanted to play WoW... sigh.

 

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cool glad to see another thing that couldn't be done and will never be in game getting done and put in game finally wink

 

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You know if they lose another Million or 2 Million subs, housing will be added to the game. wink

Anyway, I'm done with WoW, I will be looking forward to GW 2, and also most likely play the single player game TOR.

 

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So when is the guesstimated release for 4.3? All this stuff sounds great, but if it does not make it here till nov/dec then I won't care. (cause I will be neck deep in SWTOR most likely)

 

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If WoW added this in the first year, all of you bitching about how long it took would still be here bitching about how it's old hat and you're bored with it.

 

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If WoW added this in the first year, all of you bitching about how long it took would still be here bitching about how it's old hat and you're bored with it.




No.

We'd still be asking for dyes. wink

 

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If WoW added this in the first year, all of you bitching about how long it took would still be here bitching about how it's old hat and you're bored with it.



Yeah, its all about the bitchin! No MMO will ever be as a success as WoW was.. not because the games are THAT bad.. the customers these days just suck. A few things in a game dont work as they would like or to their advantage..and its full on rage and tears.

My favorite message boarders..The ones that made WoW their lives for 5+ years.. and now act like they are so above it... LOL. You have an ass shaped like a computer chair.. you have 30 characters that are between level 80 and 85... Reality check..Blizz won a long time ago. silly

 

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I think anyone who is whining about not being able to tell how geared someone at a glance is one of those losers who only attack someone if they know they will win.



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seems like its pretty dumb to attack someone if you don't think you can win. fortunately i have a big ego so i attack everyone i see. but it is nice when fighting 5 people to be able to decide which target to attack first rather than turning your brain off and randomly picking one. i can understand if some people can't handle that kind of depth, though.


anyways i wonder how long it will be until blizzard starts selling special armor/weapon skins in the store for $$. that along with creating a new grind for the "collectors" are no doubt the motivations for this new feature.

 

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I think anyone who is whining about not being able to tell how geared someone at a glance is one of those losers who only attack someone if they know they will win.
If even me agrees with quazi, what he says is most certainly true wink

Back to the times when you had to learn to know your enemy in PvP. That guy in PvE gears looks like an easy target? Bad luck, he is in full PvP gear with 4000+ resilience... but you will know it next time you meet him.

 

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I have a feeling I'm going to be the only Paladin that isn't wearing Judgement armor come 4.3, I guess I'm gonna be the only person that actually looks 85. No one else likes the T11/T12 sets?


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Almost all DK sets except the T9 one (crusader thingy) look kickass. But I have a preference for the T10 (ICC) heroic set, so that's most likely what I'm gonna wear.

 

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seems like its pretty dumb to attack someone if you don't think you can win. fortunately i have a big ego so i attack everyone i see. but it is nice when fighting 5 people to be able to decide which target to attack first rather than turning your brain off and randomly picking one. i can understand if some people can't handle that kind of depth, though.



Yah, all of us that have already dealt with this in other MMO's (like AC) have no clue and "cannot handle that kind of depth".


Shen, I usually agree with most of what you type, but that statement really makes you look like a moron....just saying.







 

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Shenron, you are actually arguing against your own point. I think the vast majority will agree that there is FAR more depth in having no visual clues as to what a players spec is than simply knowing what he is wearing. This was one of the things I liked about AC, they completely stood the whole concept of casters wear robes, melee wear plate, etc on its head and we were all better for it. I don't think you would have lasted more than a few minutes in that game, the first time a dude in robes ran up and proceeded to rip you to shreds with melee weapons while you could barely scratch him might have had you uninstalling in a flash. I learned to remember players names in that game as well as pay attention to the environment for clues to what skills the player had (reading the words he spoke to cast a spell so I knew what schools of magic they had). Talk about depth! In your version of the game, anyone wearing a white robe (Matty Robe ftw) could only have been a certain class/build. I see no depth or advanced tactics in that at all, simply rote memorization.

 

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seems like its pretty dumb to attack someone if you don't think you can win. fortunately i have a big ego so i attack everyone i see. but it is nice when fighting 5 people to be able to decide which target to attack first rather than turning your brain off and randomly picking one. i can understand if some people can't handle that kind of depth, though.
I do believe we pushed one of your buttons, n'est-ce pas?


Shenron_ posted:
anyways i wonder how long it will be until blizzard starts selling special armor/weapon skins in the store for $$. that along with creating a new grind for the "collectors" are no doubt the motivations for this new feature.
Anything to keep people either paying longer or paying more (read: nickel-and-diming you to death) is probably a safe bet.

 

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Legacy armor sets will be in the blizzard cash shop.

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LMAO!!!!!!! After years of blizzard telling players they would not do this, and years of 1000+ post threads/petitions by players, and blizzard still saying they would not do this:


Flash forward to a one million subscription loss and all of the sudden blizzard finally wants to do this! laugh


But I DO HAVE TO ADMIT, this is an incredibly smart move on blizzard's part as I have always thought that this one aspect was always literally the single most important thing blizzard could do to turn their losses around and get players back.


Good thing I kept all that cool azz looking gear on on my toons, I may start playing again grin


Very good find Korrigan. This is news I think we've all been waiting for.


So glad I did not delete any of my DK armor sets or the awesome looking priest tier 9 (horde side, alliance's was fugly grin )


I'm SHOCKED they are doing this, although proving themselves to be full of it for the varied and 100% BS reasons why they "couldn't" do it before.

Sadly I've had to toss out my cool looking armor on just about every char once it got replaced.

Is this going to have a ridiculous cost I wonder? It's actually not an appearance tab. Appearance tabs are user friendly and FREE swapping out, this is a worse version. Of course with so many games already doing it well, might as well copy someone who does it poorly.

Did I mention I'm SHOCKED? I guess the sub loss has knocked them down a peg? Maybe? Hopefully?

 

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If WoW added this in the first year, all of you bitching about how long it took would still be here bitching about how it's old hat and you're bored with it.



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If WoW added this in the first year, all of you bitching about how long it took would still be here bitching about how it's old hat and you're bored with it.





Actually, Arc, we'd be saying it was one of the few things the dev's got right, and using it as more ammo in the "A" team vs "B" team comparison wink

 

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