Hi there unsolicited comment/opinion and suggestions.
- Thunderforging
Alternative suggestion to what is currently proposed. Why not let people do a quest to kill lei shen, after 3 or 4 kills they gain a token they can be used to Thunderforge an item they own. This maintains the incentive to keep playing that TF gave, it gives some protection for bad rng and is particularly valuable in for 10 man groups that have less chance of seeing certain items Thunderforged. It also “guarentees” eventual character strength in key slots like weapons and trinket to people reducing variance.
- 10 Man
Feels like they badly need at least a 3rd item drop to compete with 25 man and reduce the variance of entirely whiffing loot.
- Rep Rewards
So talking about the Kirin Tor / Sunreaver offensive faction specific reps of 5.2 here. The rewards for being honored currently is a belt at 476 ilvl, lower than existing celestial rewards. If you want the rep to remain lower key than the shadowpan assault rep, but still an option for catchup or gearing alts, I would suggest bumping all the existing rewards from 476 & 496 to a flat 509 item level. This should be inline with tot celestial level content rewards.
Also worth confirming the Shadowpan assault epics, on PTR most of the rewards are located at friendly atm. I think this was a change from a later patch? Shoulders are at exalted on their own which seems odd.
- LFR vs Celes
What’s the plan with celes? Currently they are feeling a little dry to continue the way they are for the whole expansion. Yes the idea of horridon appearing and stomping across the party in a ToT era Cele sounds amusing but I think they need a pretty heavy glow up to feel exciting.
LFR remaining dead feels mixed. On the one hand we might struggle to get the population into them, on the other ToT is one of WoW most iconic raids, it would be fun to goof around with people in there and let new or older players who dont wanna raid more seriously discover the delights of the one shot snails!
- Possible shortcut?
ToT is a long raid and the expansion before we got some sorta raid skips. This is something that could be appreciated by player base and considered.
Suggestion 1, is bifurcate the raid and have this shortcut put you near Durumu’s room and not allow backtrackin in the raid when used.
Suggestion 2 is enabling a way over the bridge lei shen destroys after the defeat of the council of elders.
There are possibilities here, that may be quite nice.