Bring back “Challenge Mode” Rewards

[Ange]

This will never happen, good luck to every LEGION/BfA player and welcome to MMO's where time played is everything.

[mostvp71]

This will never happen, good luck to every LEGION/BfA player and welcome to MMO's where time played is everything.

Can’t tell if humblebrag or

[Elias01]

I like the idea of some bragging rights cosmetic awards for doing all dungs intime on +10 and +15. Should even be seasonal tbh. Would be a nice goal to work towards, similar to how raiding has ahead of the curve and cutting edge, mythic+ should have their counterpart and rewards along with it.

Actualy they should do same for raiding and mythic raids should have theie own seasonal gear becouse lets be honest nobady gives **** about achievement it is poorest of poor rewards for doing such high end content.

[Nnyco]

Terrible idea, people could just buy boosts.

With that logic you shouldnt add anythin in the game.

[Noxina]

Was boosting even a thing back then? IIRC no one sold runs.

I earned a shit ton of gold in MoP and WoD from selling CMs.

I've sold raid boosts since WotLK even, boosting have pretty much always been a thing.

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I'd like something like the Mage Tower back, a solo challenge that couldn't be boosted (unless you shared account, which is a nono), but not have it like in Legion where you could just jump in at the end of the expansion and one shot the thing because of no scaling.
So scale it to a set ilvl (both up and down, easier to do it on alts), and let us at it. Also don't lock it away once you've completed it, I want to do it over and over and over again even after I've finished it, as I find those kind of challenges fun (which was why we boosted a shitton in MoP and WoD, because it was fun doing it in time as a 4 man group).

[Ange]

Was boosting even a thing back then? IIRC no one sold runs.

Challenge Mode was not like M+, if you understood how to cheese mechanics, you could easily boost a 5. player to GOLD, it was not a gear issue, sockets did nothing in comparison to Tank-Vengeance-stacking or mindcontrol/controlundead strategies.

The price for GOLD was more than todays mythic-raid-full-carry or many times just hard cash in $/€. Prior to WoD garrison gold-millionaires, the players with huge amounts of gold were either CM-boosting or playing-100%-AH-only. Nothing is even comperable to MoP crazyness and if you look at this thread and many other threads to bring back CM cosmetics, it was not even bad for both sides.

[Alphatorg]

Only if they are obtainable in another way after the expansion ends. Otherwise, hell nah, fuck off with time-limited rewards like that.

They put pressure into playing the game, or else you will never get that cool thing. Many times my friends went researching about some cool weapon appearance or armor just to find out that Blizzard removed it.

To this day several players have been asking Blizzard for another way to obtain the MoP sets for classes that they didn't get because they changed mains or whatever. It's annoying to have removed content in a game with subscription. And contrary to popular belief, the removal of stuff like the Elite sets each season isn't a fan-favorite freature. People hate it, especially the artificial pressure.

You know what people do when they discover that Blizzard keeps removing content? Some "git gud" and get the thing, others stop playing. I don't think it's a nice trade-off just so some snowflakes (guilty of feeling prestigious with my Mage Tower shit) can feel special.

I mean in the end it's nothing more than one of a thousand transmogs in the game and if it's so important to you then you can either work for it or buy a boost.

[Zandalariprelate]

I liked it back in the day and by end of the expansion it was easy to get them done with the op trinkets and double sock gear and I can see them being back in the next expansion with Blizzard scrapping the warfronts and islands.

[Ange]

You know what people do when they discover that Blizzard keeps removing content? Some "git gud" and get the thing, others stop playing. I don't think it's a nice trade-off just so some snowflakes (guilty of feeling prestigious with my Mage Tower shit) can feel special.

The thing you need to understand with CM's is, that unlike Mage Tower with gear ilvl inflation, CM's got FIXES overtime and it was just more difficult to do them. This is in most cases the reason why people did it on a meta-class and not on their main/alt's aswell, since it was still a huge timesink.

[Ealyssa]

Was boosting even a thing back then? IIRC no one sold runs.

LOL wut ? It was a crazy high market. Full of optimised max gems/engi helm people boosting them easily.

[schwank05]

Why? I literally have not changed from the Transmogs on my characters since Xmog was released. My Lock has T5, my DK has T10, Rogue has T10. Priest has T8, Shammy is in T6, Pally is in T8. I have never seen a better set of armor released for all these classes. SO I have no reason to care about any more cosmetic rewards. Mounts maybe, but Gear no point really. The weapons have never changed on these classes either basically most rock stuff from Wrath since they had weapon looks perfect then IMO.

[Sederath]

Edit: Huh, OP didn't do what I expected.

Yeah, new cosmetic sets from M+ would be fantastic. Perhaps obtained from +15 each dungeon?

[schwank05]

Was boosting even a thing back then? IIRC no one sold runs.

Yes, Boosting has been a thing since BC ZA bear runs on my server, at least that is as far back as I can remember. I had the most fun in GDKP runs with undergeared alts back in the day buying BIS gear for them for 100g each and then spending 1-2k gold and ending up still making gold at the end of the run.

[Battlebeard]

They should never have removed Challenge Modes.

It could work side-by-side with M+

Not based on current keys, but exact same system of MoP/WoD, you simply set dungeon to Challenge Mode.

And most important, gear SCALE to a set ilvl. Just like before.

[Sederath]

They should never have removed Challenge Modes.

It could work side-by-side with M+

Not based on current keys, but exact same system of MoP/WoD, you simply set dungeon to Challenge Mode.

And most important, gear SCALE to a set ilvl. Just like before.

But you can't keep the mice in the skinner box if they find out there's a mode they can get something finished and be done with it!