Patch 4.3 Interview with Greg Street (Ghostcrawler)

[Vasti]

Corrupted Ashbringer won't be available for Transmogrification..WOOOHOOOOOOMissing out = nothing!!!

[markos82]

I have epics because you need epics to raid.

Legendaries are not required to raid.

You could enter BoT, BWD with ilvl346 so you dont need purple gear it is just to make progress easy. Same is it with legendary....

[Otaka]

Ghostcrawler doesnt know the lore anymore??? wtf is this.... "The second new 5-man, "Well of Eternity" is a journey into the past, the War of the Ancients specifically, to help Thrall recover the Dragon Soul to use against Deathwing." Dragon soul was CREATED by Deathwing, Deathwing didnt spare part of his aspect-essence into it unlike other aspects...hence, Deathwing is IMMUNE TO DIRECT OR INDIRECT DMG FROM THE DRAGON SOUL.... It is not possible to do any harm to Deathwing with Dragon Soul.... its been said 1000 times in the books...wtf is this??? how can ghostcrawler fail this much...

[Kimd]

Nothing new about PvP on 4.3???

[MarizzaDraenor]

1 class legendary ftl. Screw tanks enha shamans etc. And 7 bosses final tier?

You are becoming more disgusting week after week after week

[Decimation]

ok...maybe I'm missing it but where in the interview does it say that T13 won't be avaiable through VP ?

it's on of the headlines in the summary but I can't find it in the interview itself .

quote plz anyone..?

Ten Ton Hammer Interview, bottom of page 2:

Ten Ton Hammer: So what is Deathwing’s loot table going to be like? Is he the source of the Tier 13 gear?

Greg: One of the different things about the rewards this time around is all of the tier sets are in the raid itself. Players won’t be able to use Valor Points to buy stuff this time around, they actually need to defeat the raid bosses. That gear will drop on the first couple of bosses and, in the grand tradition of Warcraft bosses, Deathwing only drops weapons and these weapons are slightly more powerful than the rest of the raid tier in terms of item level.

I highly suspect this will cause some strife from those used to the option of tier outside of raids. Personally, I don't care because it makes sense, but hat's just me.

[Bjarne]

SWEEEEET! Rogue legendary!Guess I will have to start with PvE then

[Rerox]

ok...maybe I'm missing it but where in the interview does it say that T13 won't be avaiable through VP ?

it's on of the headlines in the summary but I can't find it in the interview itself .

quote plz anyone..?

Ten Ton Hammer Interview - Page 2 - last answer

[how2pingu]

This looks like a nice and horrible patch. I'm glad I quit after T11. Ok. Bye.

[Navitas]

Blizzard: "So, we added the Rogue only legendaries to boost falling Rogue numbers. How's it been going? Have Rogue numbers increased?"

GC: "Well, no, no they haven't. People didn't like the idea of having to recruit someone new just to have someone to give the legendary too or making an already good raider, re-roll.”

Blizzard: “hmm”

GC: “Thinking about it now it makes sense as legendary weapons shouldn't really go to a 'new' member who'll more than likely leave after they receive it. Also, we were stupid to think that in the event someone actually recruited a new member based on some orange pixels that they would replace another, established member of their raid team.”

Blizzard: “ok”

GC: “So after the initial boom of Rogues after the announcement they sadly could not find a guild willing to take them in. In fact not only are Rogue numbers now down from before but overall number have, again, dropped.”

Blizzard: "How do you intend to fix this?"

GC: "Pandas?"

Blizzard: "..."

[Piene]

This looks like a nice and horrible patch. I'm glad I quit after T11. Ok. Bye.

Good to know that. Oh Wait... Who cares ?


Sounds pretty cool so far.

[CaptainArlong]

Epic gems available only in raids? WTF??? Are they trying to lose costumers? It's returning to the elitist raider days of WoW where an arrogant EQ player ran the game and made it his own sequel to EQ.

[Stevoman]

The melee buff seems like a cheap way to handle the imbalance, but it had to happen somehow. Dragonwrath is going to scale so well once casters gain more Intellect in 4.3 gear that the ranged/melee gap was looking to be wider than ever.

[Lawke]

"If World of Warcraft’s character level is like 120 someday" .... mmm mmm

[Tural]

Also, a lot of these transcriptions are completely literal. The only thing I removed was "ummm" and "and" (he really likes "and").

For what it's worth, the Ashbringer bullet point is misleading. The question was 'Will there be a lookalike of The Corrupted Ashbringer available?' Not 'Will The Corrupted Ashbringer be available for transmogrification?' Chilton was saying it will not be available for buying, not that it will not be available for use.


Eurogamer: You're adding the option to buy back armour sets that have disappeared from the game - can we also buy back patched-out items like the Corrutped Ashbringer?

Tom Chilton: We are going to have a variety of different items that used to be available but aren't available any more, but it's not going to be all-inclusive. I don't believe that one [the Corrupted Ashbringer] is going to be available, although it's always a possibility for the future. We also have plans to try to make some of the older PVP armour sets available, although not necessarily through the Darkmoon Faire.

[plosion]

Epic gems available only in raids? WTF??? Are they trying to lose costumers? It's returning to the elitist raider days of WoW where an arrogant EQ player ran the game and made it his own sequel to EQ.

Welcome to pre Toc. Enjoy your stay.

Basically they aren't giving epics for free this time because unless you intend to raid normal/heroic deathwing istance, you won't be needing them (next tier is the expansion remember).

[Farabee]

This looks like a nice and horrible patch. I'm glad I quit after T11. Ok. Bye.

Amen, SWTOR can't come fast enough.

Epic gems only through raiding. Tier only through raiding, so no reason to play alts anymore. On top of one-class legendary and taking a huge dump on the established lore, I'm pretty much fully disenfranchised with WoW.

[Vengfulr3ap3r]

I've been playing WoW since the beta back in early 2004.

My main is a warrior tank.

We haven't had a legendary since the Molten Core days. And I don't care.

Legendaries don't matter to me. I have plenty of epics. Orange text does nothing for me. I don't have an epeen.

Lol I like the way you think. :P haha. I agree thou about the orange text doing nothing for you. It doesnt do much for me either, its just a name. The true measure of someone, in my opinion, is how well they play their class. gear is... just gear skill is what matters.

[Deleted]

I withdraw my previous statement. This is not the best patch ever. It is the worst pile of junk one could possibly imagine.

- Hurray for COT zero imagination instances with more mind numbering escorts and lore that adds nothing to the gameplay.
- 8 bosses two of them deathwing. Did we need firelands? Did we need BOT? Deathwing is fit as a outdoor boss!
- HC mode will eventually be made easier.. Of course. Just look what your doing with Northrend. Making sure playing the game is as boring as ever.
- Daggers for the least played class in game who already have awesome legendary options compared to certain other classes. If this is a carrot to even the numbers. Maybe take a look at why the other melee classes make out the majority instead. But, no. That's not the approach. The devs have agreed the future of wow is in paladin, warrior and DK's hand's. I hope every mage, hunter and lock gets deleted.
- Epic gems in the new raid and of course likely a ton of schematics every JC need to do 8 months worth of dailies to get. Lets exclude everyone who's not raiding the latest tier from epic gems, again. And make sure raiders do dailies. The formula is so loveable <3


Whoever complained on game catering to casuals. This is your patch. Here is your epic gems to sell for 8k a cut and more fresh raid content you can deny to do without your superelite friends. You now know if you see someone in T13 they will have raided for it. Grats on your achieve.

Also.

Whoever complained on game catering to no-lifers. This is your patch. LFR will give you raiding gear. Northrend have been nerfed as you asked for. Your DK/Warr/Pala is getting raid buffed.


I am glad so many superior game titles are around the corner. These patch-notes, feels like being told my next two hundred WoW sessions will be on par with TOC interest > down below bottom.

You might be one of THE most bitter persons i have ever seen on this forum. Amazing!
Wow is clearly making you feel bad so you should just enroll to a rehab and stay there
until you can go 5 minutes without having to rant about how bad wow has become etc.

Chillax man!

OT: Looking forward to coming back for this patch. Looking really nice

[Naro]

One of the problems with tanking weapons is that our tanks use very different weapons so we could say “Well this legendary weapon is going to be for the Warrior and Paladin and hopefully we’ll get to the Death Knight and Druid someday in the future”. With all the talk about a legendary weapon that transforms “you could have a 2-handed version or a 1-handed version”, too much of that I think starts to suck away what is really special about the legendary when it can turn into all these different things.

I couldn't tell the difference between one-handed and two-handed Quel'Delar.