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Ok, so now after a long thought process after the release of 3.2, I’ve finally come to a conclusion. I don’t so much mind that Blizzard revamped the Emblem system to make older content more appealing to “geared” players, however I feel the addition of the daily heroic (and soon to be weekly raid) quests are bad for the game.
I don’t want to feel that I must run old content to get current tier gear. I think the addition of EoTriumph’s to the weekly raid heroic was a mistake, and should have just been two extra conquests. If you run one ToC lockout, you get 15 Emblems of Triumph. Doing the daily heroic each day, net’s you 14 EoTs each week.
I think its perfectly reasonable to offer “free access” to the previous tier of gear, having heroic emblems be Conquest and ToC dropping Triumph.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not being elitist. ToC isn’t hard and its pugged several times a day on my realm (I usually pug it 2-3 times a week on my alts), but I don’t feel that a players gear progression should be held to how many heroics he runs each week.
*rant over*
PS – Trying to get up the material for my Tank Grid/UI post, but having started a new job, I’m a little inundated with work right now.
Did they announce how many triumph badges are dropping? One thing I’ve noticed is a bit of a snowball effect with triumph badges.
When you dont have much gear, its tougher to get into pugs. The more gear you have, the more totc you can run. On my main I’m running totc10, totc25, and togc10. That’s a total of 45 badges, plus 4 for voa, 3 for onyxia.
Now by contrast, my lesser geared alts arent getting into a heroic totc anytime soon. Instead on my priest I run totc10, and just started doing 25s. I’m not stepping into togc anytime soon, as being carried is a bit harder. So instead, I’m averaging around 30 badges + the additional 7. Thus I then run a few heroics to help catch me up on badge count.
Now 3 weeks ago, I wasn’t running 25s, so it knocked me down to roughly 22 / week before heroics.
Have they announced the value of a weekly raid? I’d guess ~5 badges but that’s just a guess. And thinking more into it,it will probably drop the new badges not triumph.
Given they’re releasing IC in phases, it’ll probably still be slow starting out. 4 badges / first week, +2 / day for daily heroic, then maybe 5 for the weekly raid? If thats the case you’re talking 19 for the first week, then 24, etc. Until heroic opens and so on
Weekly raid is 10 Emblems of Frost. “Random Heroic” via the new LFG tool is 2 Frost per day.