I seriously hope there's no more sha touched sockets
I seriously hope there's no more sha touched sockets
Your hoping is futile
http://ptr.wowdb.com/items/94982-5-2...boss-12-loot-1
Hmmmm so every new tier we'll have to buy the gem, socket and the metagem again and again?
I do hope they adjust the price a bit :-) [I am not very rich in-game; but on the other hand, gold is coming in quite easy]
10k is loose change to me, BUT they should of pre-warned that they will be adding more Sha-Touched weapons. I think the general assumption was we would be upgrading our current Sha-Touched weapons during the quest process.
I don't think there will actually be sha-touched weapons in 5.2
If you look at the models and icons of the two sha-touched weapons, they're very obviously copy-pasted versions of the current tier's Sha-touched Axe and Gun, with their ilevels cranked up. I feel like they just haven't taken the time yet to take the sha-touched socket off.
Steve Irwin died the same way he lived. With animals in his heart.
Whether or not they copied it from 5.0 - the following tiers this expansion will have sha touched weapons. That is confirmed.
Ask ghostcrawler about it, he'll confirm it again.
Still... why again another 2 handed axe? Can't they... dunno... A Strenght Polearm or a 2 handed mace or sword? You know... just have a bit of variation in weapon type. And don't give me BS about now being able to transmog axes to swords/maces on this next patch. Although it would be sweat to be able to use a damn friggin Polearm as a Death Knight.
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Whaddya know, I was right.
Steve Irwin died the same way he lived. With animals in his heart.
I can see it being annoying if they don't lower the price on the gem/socket, which currently run about 11,500g combined. The problem is, imagine you get the raid finder version of a weapon and want to gem/socket it, then you get the normal version, then you get the thunderforged normal version, then you get the heroic version, then you get the thunderforged heroic version. So you have to buy the gem+socket x 5 (this is without considering there might be elite/elite heroic/Raden weapons) which will come to 57,500g to just keep your weapons maintained for a single tier.
Now, perhaps nobody will make the mistake of socketing LFR weapons if they expect to have access to at least normal mode, but this still leaves the door open for easily having to rebuy the legendary gem/socket 3 times on one character.
I think that a great option would be that instead of gold you required a payment in justice points to replace the gem, it would make 5 mans more active and would make it realistic to use the gem/socket on multiple alts.
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Gonna be tough for new reg weapons to compete with sha touched weapons with sha gems and a prismatic socket
The new weapons will probably be able to beat the sha-touched + socket due to the MASSIVE increase in ilvls.
Your sha touched weapons are now vendor/shard fodder. Fuck you, black prince. I think its time to reduce the black dragon species by one more member.
Maybe the case for 535+ heroic versions, but not so certain this will be the case for the normals over 2/2 upgraded heroics now, at least for all classes/specs. For instance, 496 sha touched gun was better than the 502 bow from heroic will. The difference between a 517 and 522 normal mode weapon is one ilvl less. We'll see what happens once the weapons are known.
its gonna be bigger gold sink eventually then those panther mounts >< i mean lfr sha weapon , OS weapon , normal node weapon , normal mode OS >< 30k already - for firs tier only then 40k for each next tier :/ for people who raid normals - 60k for hc raiders unless they are lucky with drops :/