Weapon vendor selling stuff like the High Warlords Spellblade that was released during Naxxramas.
I already reported as a bug, b/c its not in line with the general policy of progressive itemization to mirror the original WoW, as stated in the big ‘Classic Content Plan’ post.
Blizzard is clueless as usual
While that weapon was added with Naxxramas, most other epic PvP weapons were available since 1.4. From what I read in the notes from Patch 1.11:
It sounds like they considered it an oversight they were then correcting, so including these weapons in phase 2 would make sense.
Working as intended afaik. We knew this for a long time now, only reason I considered doing R14 to get the updated R13 set and weapons.
They have absolutly no clue what they are doing, and once again pservers handled it better
So you say it’s better to just release the melee weapons and not the caster once?
At the current pace of phase releases naxx will be out by/before the time somebody hits rank 14
Its better to releace non updated sets and weapons. But ofc blizzard is to lazy for progressive itemization
You would have had to nerf items from all other sources then; it wouldn’t make sense to have 1.12 PvE items with outdated PvP rewards (they’re already just mildly interesting even if you don’t do MC/Onyxia, which people are able to do today way more easily than back in the day)
Yep thats what should have been done, because some items benefited far more from the updates than others. Take bre for example, its a naxx tier weapon atm and has no place in the game when casters dont have anything that even comes close
There was a caster weapon in from the start - the staff with 40ish Stamina and 70ish Spelldamage, which was a nice weapon with PVP stats distribution.
The spellblade however is basically the same as the best caster weapon from AQ40 (Silithid sharpened Femur) with the same PVE stats (actually it has even more intellect). Thats why it should not be in the game right now b/c it neither fits due to its power level nor the stat budgeting.
On the bright side in my guild it means less competition for femur
So a PvP player who manage to grind to rank 14, and let’s be real it’s not going to be every other player. You think they should be outgeared by someone who clears Bwl?
Really doesn’t make any sense since they said the wsg rep trinkets likely wouldn’t be in until p5 because that’s when they were added in vanilla.
They’re not. Rank 13 gear is significantly better than the bwl counterparts in most cases, and still what you’ll be using in some slots once aq is out.
Point is, pvp gear is too strong, it shouldn’t be like this, but now that it is, blizzard could at least not release pieces earlier than they’re supposed to be out.
I would’ve gone farther. I would’ve adjusted item quality and content difficulty to make intermediate steps more relevant.
We can’t tell yet how BWL+ will turn out, but most MC boss fights today take a couple of minutes with a subpar raid. I think MC should still be widely accessible of course, but encouraging people to do a bit more gearing up through dungeons (not necessarily for the “pre-raid BiS” until their eyes bleed, like some very motivated raiders do) would make this content more active.
Same goes for Onyxia, which is already doable with a dozen people. To me it doesn’t make sense that you can do content with 1/3 ~ 1/4 of a full raid at the gear level that drops in that very same instance.
its not about pve, no one cares about that, its about pvp. Having naxx tier bre/ r14 weaps in pvp is plain stupid
Yes but the pre buff rank 13 items are garbo
no they are not
If nobody cares about PvE then who cares when PvP weapons are accessible as long as they’re accessible to everybody.