02-13-2008, 11:16 PM
Quote:I really don't see what all the badge whining is about. Did the world end when they released "tier behind" badge gear before?
The world didn't end. Gruul and Mag did.
Too many people are misinterpreting my line of argument in this thread. Once again, I'm not arguing this from an elitist perspective. The thing is, encouraging people to gear up through heroics and Kara again is just forcing them through old and done content, over and over. It's not fun or good design.
If they implemented the badge vendor to take 3 TK badges and a Kael badge for an epic, I'd be happier. Yes, that means a TK clear earns an epic for 25 people, a much faster rate of gearing than the badges are likely to be. That's fine by me. What's important is that people should explore new (to them) content and get gear for it, instead of being forced to run Kara. Less hardcore guilds should be free to drop Kara and Heroics now; they should be moving on to bigger and better things, instead of seeing Kara week-in, week-out.
Keeping people in old content is bad design, any way you slice it.