Update #2 - We mirrored the interview in this post if you want to check it out.
Update - Looks like the escapist took the article down, probably went up earlier than expected.

Rogue Legendary and Patch 4.3
Another interview showed up today in The Escapist. The most important part is the Rogue Legendary dagger and new raid level difficulty, but the important points are all below.


  • Rogues will get a legendary dagger and exciting quest line to go with it. The lore for the dagger has not been decided upon yet.
  • Looking for Raid tool raids will be easier than normal raids using a new level of difficulty (Looking For Raid).
  • The Looking for Raid tool will only work for 25 man raids, not 10 man.
  • Players will get different achievements and loot from doing Random Raid mode, no normal mode achievements or perks will be gained.
  • This will introduce players to the content and mechanics of the fights so that they are more prepared for an actual raid.
  • The new five mans will have tighter story integration with the Deathwing Raid than Icecrown Heroics did.
  • The Dragonflights will work together to help take down Deathwing.
  • Deathwing's random zone burning will continue at least until the end of Patch 4.3.
  • They might be talking about Pandas at Blizzcon.


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  1. mmoc1dde548293's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zeino View Post
    exactly what I was thinking in my original post on the subject. However, I would like to talk more about the actual legendary that is coming out and not this theoretical one we all seem to think way too much about, myself included.
    Indeed we need rumour control with facts from blue, that the article has now been removed makes me wonder if it was genuine at all.
  1. bbr's Avatar
    Alright a dagger, nice. I really hope it'll be a 1.3 or 1.4 speed offhand though... It'll be a death-blow this expansion for combat spec otherwise... ... Teh gladiators is getting more and more lame, boring and just not really front page worthy. How about putting up Looking for Group for a while instead? http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/495 It at least has a STORY, and much better art.


    Quote Originally Posted by calibro View Post
    Oh god feral druids never gonna get a legendary...
    Nearly all two handers are.
    So, hand of Ragnaros is a feral druid legendary.
    Even though, at the time it dropped and was useful, it didnt have any attack rating.
  1. Photek's Avatar
    I really hope that thing is fake. We need legendaries that can use multiple classes. Some class-specs never had a worthy legendary before. And rogues aren't one of them.
  1. Lishtaar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Xingua View Post
    Yeah, a legendary mace that had no Feral AP and couldn't proc in cat or bear form for a class that was only supposed to heal at that point in WoW....
    ^^^^^^
    this

    Everyone that's saying that ferals already got a legendary obviously did not play a druid back in vanilla.
  1. Optochip's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Photek View Post
    I really hope that thing is fake. We need legendaries that can use multiple classes. Some class-specs never had a worthy legendary before. And rogues aren't one of them.
    Mutilate Rogues never had a worthy Legendary either, if you wanna get into the class-spec arguement...
  1. mmoc325978b4bb's Avatar
    ^ Couldn't agree more.
  1. Nexdominus's Avatar
    "They might be talking about Pandas at Blizzcon."No Just No... omfg NO!
  1. moahrs's Avatar
    I am braziliam, sry for my english.
    LFR tool raids will be easier than normal raids, and players will get different achievements and loot...
    This is ridiculous... today is very dificult get a raid (PUG), because, today is in trade: LFM BoT, link ilevel (600 minimal), and link archivement. And with new differentiation: LFM BoT, link ilevel (750 minimal), and link archievemente (dont be from LFR)... What is diferente from a LFR to a PUG ??????????? Only the form of looking for more.... Greate solution blizzard, more one racist idea. 3 ideas: 1st archievemente, 2nd ilevel, and now LFR less than normal PUG... I made many raids in WOTLK, many raids in BC, but now because i cant up more faster (work and university), and I cant do initials raids (BoT, BH, TW4 and another alphabet soup), i dont have archivements and i dont can play raid (i dont do any in cataclysm, i have 362 only from heroics).... With more this ridiculous ideia, i will like less play wow... i playing only upping any char, any realm, any class... only for fun... i doing heroics with my main only for get itens... ty and sry for my outburst.
  1. Constellation's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nexdominus View Post
    "They might be talking about Pandas at Blizzcon."No Just No... omfg NO!
    QQ

    10chars
  1. BuffNinja's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nexdominus View Post
    "They might be talking about Pandas at Blizzcon."No Just No... omfg NO!
    No point QQing about pandas. There are people that like the idea and people that hate them for some (I would like to see a reason).
    Pandas will happen, it's only a matter of time...
  1. jaymike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Briga View Post
    Actually you seem to have forgotten that all tanks can wield either a 1h or 2h mace.

    So an easy compromise is a legendary that changes depending on who crafts it or is selectable at the end of a quest chain like Quel'Dalar.

    1h tanking mace... Warrior and Pally.
    2h str tanking mace... DK
    2h Agi tanking mace... Ferals

    Everybody wins.
    Actually not really. Assuming they ever did what you just suggested, there would be an incredible stat advantage in favor of the 2h over the 1h.
  1. Chokoladekage's Avatar
    They should create a tank 2h that has shield powas! then all tanks are happy yaaay

    ---------- Post added 2011-09-14 at 09:20 PM ----------

    Everyone wants a legendary in all expansion, so when it's not their class QQ is coming, and ppl want that all classes have the same amount of legendaries, but the lore has to fit in, and caster legendaries are shared by more classes, because all ranged caster dps are most likely the same. They do the same, but they got different spells(some uses more dots than others), they all uses staffs, you can give casters 1h, but i dont see a reason only if it's the only possibility to fit in lore, like illidans weps, they cant be 2h maces right..Melee dps are different, we got 1h, slow and fast, daggers even only rogues use, 2h weapons. So the group is smaller, because melee dps are more varied.
  1. mmoc5c32e75eb2's Avatar
    There is absolutely no way to balance the way of making legendarys that fits to multiple classes. Example the warriors had sulfuras, thunderfury, glaives, thori'dal and shadowmourne while example the enhancement shaman has nothing. I've also seen some people wanting a feral staff, but maybe you have to look a bit outside the box. The druid class just got a legendary, it wouldn't be fair if they had another one just by next patch. And they also have Fandral's Flamescythe, it might not be a legendary but it's effect is so close-up as it could possibly be. You can't satisfy everyone okay, this patch will be a rogue dagger. And rogues won't have another legendary for a very long time while the other class/spec combinations will have legendarys.
  1. mmoc1dde548293's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by jaymike View Post
    Actually not really. Assuming they ever did what you just suggested, there would be an incredible stat advantage in favor of the 2h over the 1h.
    Which would be balanced against warriors and paladins using a shield and the stat advantage that provides.
  1. Skavee's Avatar
    Rogue -> one if not the least played class, atm. legendary dagger -> many Rogues resub'ing. Many Rogue's resub'ing -> $Blizzard$ on a side note: pvp rogue with legendary dagger -> many QQ many QQ -> rogue nerfs rogue nerfs -> rogue worse than hunter pet in patch 4.4
  1. Phive's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by moahrs View Post
    I am braziliam, sry for my english. This is ridiculous... today is very dificult get a raid (PUG), because, today is in trade: LFM BoT, link ilevel (600 minimal), and link archivement. And with new differentiation: LFM BoT, link ilevel (750 minimal), and link archievemente (dont be from LFR)... What is diferente from a LFR to a PUG ??????????? Only the form of looking for more.... Greate solution blizzard, more one racist idea. 3 ideas: 1st archievemente, 2nd ilevel, and now LFR less than normal PUG... I made many raids in WOTLK, many raids in BC, but now because i cant up more faster (work and university), and I cant do initials raids (BoT, BH, TW4 and another alphabet soup), i dont have archivements and i dont can play raid (i dont do any in cataclysm, i have 362 only from heroics).... With more this ridiculous ideia, i will like less play wow... i playing only upping any char, any realm, any class... only for fun... i doing heroics with my main only for get itens... ty and sry for my outburst.
    this isnt any different than any of the outburst i have but with more cursing
  1. Pheetz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by squeedwiddle View Post
    How can anybody honestly believe this? The next legendary has to go to either tanks, who haven't had a legendary in 5 yeard, or Enhancement Shamans as they've never had a legendary. (No, Hand was not a legendary for enhancement as EVERY shaman at the time had to be resto or gtfo.)

    Anyway, this seems as fraudulent as the Mists of Pandaria bullshit. (It's a comic book, folks.)
    A comic book? Seriously? I've yet to EVER see a comic book that is "Computer game software; computer game discs; computer game software and related instruction manuals and guides sold together as a unit; downloadable computer game software; computer game software downloadable from a global computer network; downloadable electronic games via the internet and wireless devices; interactive multimedia computer game program;" do you even know how to read a trademark? The timing is perfect, right before Blizzcon just like the other expansions.
  1. i4ni's Avatar
    I play rogue and I still think making a legendary that is only good for one class is dumb.
  1. Mundayz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by i4ni View Post
    I play rogue and I still think making a legendary that is only good for one class is dumb.
    Exactly.

    They said they would never make a "tanking" weapon because the audience that would acquire it is too small, so a SINGULAR class is just right huh?
  1. Stillen88's Avatar
    another rogue ledgendary?......not impressed at all

    ---------- Post added 2011-09-15 at 12:36 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by calibro View Post
    Oh god feral druids never gonna get a legendary...
    i feel your pain

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