New Legendary item is a ring

[SinAscendant]

Game Text #86964 - In all my years, Gul'dan is the craftiest, most diabolical foe I have ever encountered. I hold myself accountable for his release.
Game Text #86965 - We MUST find and eliminate Gul'dan and his nascent Shadow Council network.
Game Text #86966 - With your help, I can track him down. I will ask a great deal of you. I will task you to the very edge of your abilities.
Game Text #86967 - But I will also help you as much as I am able. Together we will create for you an artifact of legendary power.
Game Text #86968 - With a core forged from the heart of Draenor's sun, this ring is a foundation upon which we will build a wonder.



Seems pretty straightforward to me.

[Sicarius87]

There was also fudgehammer. So maybe more than one this time around?

[Vapo]

I just hope they wont make another expansion-long, mandatory for raiding - legendary quest chain.

[SinAscendant]

I just hope they wont make another expansion-long, mandatory for raiding - legendary quest chain.

I feel like "This ring is a foundation" implies that it will be.

Plus there are a fuckton of legendary mats from all areas of raiding so...

[Jester Joe]

Interesting, but kinda sad that it seems it won't be a weapon again :x

[Al Gorefiend]

Or it could be a quest item?

[cityguy193]

Its not the "final" legendary however. Remember we had legendary weapons in early MOP too.

Honestly wish they would make a legendary, on use, trinket. Something cool on like a 10 minute cooldown, that resets on death. The ideas they could come up with would be pretty cool.

[Jester Joe]

Its not the "final" legendary however. Remember we had legendary weapons in early MOP too.

I remember that, Wrathion was cleanse the Sha touched weapons

[Zylos]

legendary cape, while kinda cool, was very very lackluster compared to legendary weapons.

Making a legendary ring is taking the horrible idea of a legendary cape and making it worse. Also making it available to lfr was a bad idea. I myself do nothing but LFR and I got the cape on 3 characters. That isn't legendary, it's just free loot as a reward for playing on a semi weekly basis. It didn't feel cool at all when I got the cape it felt like bleh finally done.

When I got shadowmourne in wotlk it felt incredible, it was bad freaking ass dude. I remember when our guild first got thunderfury, sulfuras, and val'anyr. It was very exciting, the cape just isn't.

Feels like blizzard is just recycling ideas and not coming up with anything original.

[WintersLegion]

I believe they said they are planning on doing another legendary like the Cloak and one that is more like the daggers

[Zantos]

Seriously, call it what it is. A epic ring. Heck, give it its own catagory. Call it leet or superior epic. Its not A legendary when everyone can get it, doing any raid mode, from a quest. Legendary is exclusive, not a quest item anyone and everyone gets. I have never had a legendary. I played a tank since wrath and they never had a legendary tanking item in that time frame.

I do not want or like the idea of this. It was annoying and a hassle to do the last legendary quest. It forced me to do activities to obtain it that I do not care to take part in such as LFR to catch up, or the bg's. It was neither hard nor challenging. It was tedious. Nothing more.

At least the legendary staff was a challenge. It required not only the owner, but the raid to take part in tasks that made the easy encounters harder. The same goes for the daggers, but that was a bigger challenge for the rogue.

[cityguy193]

Seriously, call it what it is. A epic ring. Heck, give it its own catagory. Call it leet or superior epic. Its not A legendary when everyone can get it, doing any raid mode, from a quest. Legendary is exclusive, not a quest item anyone and everyone gets. I have never had a legendary. I played a tank since wrath and they never had a legendary tanking item in that time frame.

I do not want or like the idea of this. It was annoying and a hassle to do the last legendary quest. It forced me to do activities to obtain it that I do not care to take part in such as LFR to catch up, or the bg's. It was neither hard nor challenging. It was tedious. Nothing more.

At least the legendary staff was a challenge. It required not only the owner, but the raid to take part in tasks that made the easy encounters harder. The same goes for the daggers, but that was a bigger challenge for the rogue.

They should honestly make the quest given legendary, a "legendary" enchant. It shouldnt be so powerful like the capes were in comparison to SOO capes.

I wouldnt mind if we had no actual legendary this expansion. It was never anything special, other than a balancing nightmare.

[Mormolyce]

Sounds like that's Khadgar speaking, based on the intro chain?

It might also be one of those temporary rewards like the sha socket and gem from the early parts of the MoP legendary chain.

[Count Zero]

I just hope they wont make another expansion-long, mandatory for raiding - legendary quest chain.

I hope it is an expansion-long quest chain. There was more in-game lore attached to the Cape than anything else in the game.

[RoKPaNda]

I hope it is an expansion-long quest chain. There was more in-game lore attached to the Cape than anything else in the game.

Agreed. I'd be very disappointed if they went back to the old way of doing legendaries which was just flat out bad design.

[cityguy193]

I hope it is an expansion-long quest chain. There was more in-game lore attached to the Cape than anything else in the game.

You do not need an artificial grind to have cool lore rich quests.

If the legendary cape quests, didnt require you to collect runestones and secrets for months before moving on, it would be the same thing.

[Sinndra]

It didn't feel cool at all when I got the cape it felt like bleh finally done.

it felt "bleh" because all it was, was farming and hoping for the RNG gods to smile in your favor. you spent 90% of your time waiting in queue, and slodging thru LFR. its not that LFR shouldnt be a part of the questline, but that the questline itself should be more engaging. asking you to actually DO something legendary or challenging during the fights. use X spell at Y time, or soak some boss ability using your defensives, or something besides <kill this boss without doing anything out of the ordinary and wait for RNG to help you>.

if you didnt have to spend so much time farming pathetic mats, it probably wouldnt have felt so "bleh" to get.

[Socialhealer]

it felt "bleh" because all it was, was farming and hoping for the RNG gods to smile in your favor. you spent 90% of your time waiting in queue, and slodging thru LFR. its not that LFR shouldnt be a part of the questline, but that the questline itself should be more engaging. asking you to actually DO something legendary or challenging during the fights. use X spell at Y time, or soak some boss ability using your defensives, or something besides <kill this boss without doing anything out of the ordinary and wait for RNG to help you>.

if you didnt have to spend so much time farming pathetic mats, it probably wouldnt have felt so "bleh" to get.

then it couldn't be done in LFR, shadowmourne was basically done in the way you described, now imagine every LFR scrub going oh i need to do this to get my quest done guys so we're going to do the boss this way or i'll whine and try wipe you.

it's the price you pay for LFR there must be nothing engaging in questlines that can be done inside LFR just extra facerolling.

[Lessthanzer0]

Agreed. I'd be very disappointed if they went back to the old way of doing legendaries which was just flat out bad design.

they've said a few times they wanted to do a cloak style legendary AND a class specific one.

[turboether]

if you didnt have to spend so much time farming pathetic mats, it probably wouldnt have felt so "bleh" to get.

The above doesn't apply to every other awesome legendary before it, however. Farming pathetic mats for those felt AWESOME.