Did Blizzard actually fullfill the wishes of this person, after some tweets?

[Deleted]

People recently datamined the Artifact Weapon color for the new expansion, and it was the same as the heirloom item color. They just released their latest build and this happened. Did Blizzard actually listen to this?



This is historical.

[Dangg]

He is right though.

[Ratboy]

We already have:
Grey
White
Green
Blue
Purple
Orange
Light Gold

so what other colour would actually make sense or look good?
Also I'm sure if you spend enough time combing through twitter each colour has been asked for by someone.

[Damajin]

Old artifacts like the Twin Blades of Azzinoth were red.

[Insaniam]

It's not in response to that thing. "Artifact" quality items were originally listed as red on the original WoW site (before the battle.net integration).

[Thunderhoove]

Red being the artifact color was a thing a long time ago. I don't know all the details but i think it was changed to the color heirlooms use, then heirlooms became a thing. Makes sense to go back to red, though. Doubt this guy's twitter spamming had anything to do with it.

[Notshauna]

He's not the only one, I too believed they should be red. It was something that was floating around ever since the idea came to be.

[Tyrgannus]

If you remember Vanilla, Red was always the color for Artifacts, but they didn't exist yet.

[Dequanacus]

Couple years late to making that claim

[Ringthane]

It's "historical"?

[Arthas242]

Artifacts existed FOR A LONG TIME AS A CLASSIFICATION and it has always been red....

the problem has been there has only ever been on item ever red in the database i believe and it was a non player one at that.

and the only time a classification was added was for heirlooms, and that turned out to be gold, this also caused confusion in WotLK as Frostmourne was added to the game as a artifact and it was gold

Blizzard has a list or something like this a long time ago i think in vanilla wow maybe it was TBC, but i remember people asking "what are artifacts?"
Artifact Red
Legendary Orange
Epic Purple
Sup. Blue
uncommon Green
common White
trash Gray

i think it might of been even on the AH at one point

BASICALLY..... blizzard finally found out what they could use their red label for......
* it was always speculated they would be used for weapons of lore characters, but that never held up, but it did kind of with weapons like frostmourne, and now doomhammer and ashbringer*

and most of the artifacts have ties to good lore in wow, with a handful being totally new, yet still exciting.