08-17-2006, 05:50 PM
Quote:I especially agree with the points about Items.
Everyone runs around in his uniform, everyone has the same stuff, you (if you are in a raiding group) know exactly what you will wear in three months, and you know exactly it will be better in nearly all aspects than what you wear now, and you know exactly which boss will drop it. The only question is how many runs do you need for it, and do you have enough dkp for it? How boring.
I was just thinking this exact thing the other day and wondering why it hasn't been commented on--Magtheridon is one of the oldest servers from the first day of retail and the level 60 population has matured enough that when you look around in Ironforge you don't see an array of unique characters and you can forget about recognizing friends on sight. All you see are Tier 1 or 2 dressed characters wandering around.
The exception I've noticed (and only since they made innervate trainable at level 40) is that feral druids are popping up with complex assortments of gear because the best feral gear isn't any set, it's a collection of pieces from around the world. And druids are disincentivised to min/max like a rogue might be; they need a little of everything.
Still, Blizzard may or may not understand the problem. In the recent EU Press junket (as reported on worldofwar.net), Blizzard representatives said:
Quote:In Naxxramas you implemented the tier 3 set, can we expect a tier 4 in Burning Crusade, or tier 5 etc
Well, I don't know but there will certainly be epic gear sets going forward. Generally the gear sets are very well received and it's not a philosophy we plan to deviate from any time soon. You can see that with the Scourge invasion world event, there's some gear sets. Everyone loves gear sets so we don't plan to deviate from this,