09-12-2005, 01:36 AM
One thing that I noticed about that thread, was the complaint that Tier 2 gear was only very slightly better than Tier 1, at the tradeoff of Blackwing Lair being much more difficult than Molten Core.
It seems to me that this explanation is not correct, because the items are actually staggered across instance tiers: You collect your Tier 0 set in order to do Molten Core. There, you collect your Tier 1 set in order to do Blackwing Lair, where you collect your Tier 2 set to do the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.
With the exception of Ragnaros, there really aren't any bosses in Molten Core that you are required to have your Tier 1 gear for, for example. Now how hard Nefarian is, is as of yet unknown, but it is not unlikely that he will require better gear than just Tier 1. On the same note, Blizzard has already announced that TAQ is going to be only very slightly more difficult than BWL, but that the end boss will be "*extremely* difficult".
By this logic, the big differences in Tier gear seem adequately explained in relation to the Tier dungeons. From Molten Core to Blackwing Lair is a very large jump, as is the jump from Tier 0 to Tier 1 gear. From Molten Core to the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj is only a minor difficulty increase, as is the upgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 2 gear.
Of course, this is just my own speculation ;)
It seems to me that this explanation is not correct, because the items are actually staggered across instance tiers: You collect your Tier 0 set in order to do Molten Core. There, you collect your Tier 1 set in order to do Blackwing Lair, where you collect your Tier 2 set to do the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.
With the exception of Ragnaros, there really aren't any bosses in Molten Core that you are required to have your Tier 1 gear for, for example. Now how hard Nefarian is, is as of yet unknown, but it is not unlikely that he will require better gear than just Tier 1. On the same note, Blizzard has already announced that TAQ is going to be only very slightly more difficult than BWL, but that the end boss will be "*extremely* difficult".
By this logic, the big differences in Tier gear seem adequately explained in relation to the Tier dungeons. From Molten Core to Blackwing Lair is a very large jump, as is the jump from Tier 0 to Tier 1 gear. From Molten Core to the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj is only a minor difficulty increase, as is the upgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 2 gear.
Of course, this is just my own speculation ;)
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