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Tier 5 for free - nobbie - 04-17-2007
Visit good ol' Johnny McWeaksauce at A'dal in Shattrath City to get your free Tier 5 Set for testing the "Black Temple" on the 2.1 beta test servers.
Note: You must be at least 'Honored' with the 'Violet Eye' (Karazhan raid faction) to have access to the sets.
Tier 5 for free - Zarathustra - 04-18-2007
Also, an extremely minor change that makes me happy... lantern offhand items no longer clip through Night Elves' legs!
Tier 5 for free - Icebird - 04-18-2007
I had a chance to equip my warlock in the Corruptor's Set plus other suitably drool worthy items last night. It's a very cool looking set - much more menacing than the Killer Jawa Clown look of Plagueheart.
The actual bonus to stats is much less than you would think from looking at the gear owing to a lack of enchants, gems, glyphs, spellthreads and so on. It's surprising how much that stuff adds up. I was able to buy a glyph of power, but my bank vaults aren't quite up to giving my test character the full treatment. (I guess I could mule him across again to double my stockpile).
The "honored" with Violet Eye requirement prevents me from equipping my priest in similar fashion. It makes me a bit sad, because I think priests would be in demand for content testing, but I can see the logic behind what Blizzard are doing.
When they had the pre-made characters available, every man and their dog was creating characters, often in classes they'd never played before. Disabling pre-mades means that the content will be tested by people at least theoretically familiar with their class. But the tier 5 "care packages" mean that characters will be as buffed as possible for actual content testing. (I believe there's a vendor outside BT and Hyjal selling cheap flasks, potions, soulshards and other essentials of raiding).
Chris
Tier 5 for free - nobbie - 04-18-2007
Quote:I believe there's a vendor outside BT and Hyjal ...
Mt. Hyjal is open? How do I get there? Both entrances I know of (Winterspring, Timbermaw Hold in Felwood) are still closed.
Tier 5 for free - Monkey - 04-18-2007
Quote:Mt. Hyjal is open? How do I get there? Both entrances I know of (Winterspring, Timbermaw Hold in Felwood) are still closed.
I believe he means the Caverns of Time:Mt Hyjal, not the actual zone.
Tier 5 for free - Warlock - 04-18-2007
It's worth picking through the off-class boxes as well as your own for a wider selection of equipment.