Blizz permanently ruined mage tower by handing out all the mage tower appearances for free in SL. Now, we KNOW there is absolutely no point in doing such content, just wait and they will give it to you for free. Hell, the Lightforged Warframe now has more prestige than the mage tower, because it was never handed out for free.
I did 36/36 (I don't consider it some ultra skill check, I had tactic planned even before 7.3: I slowly geared up 11 alts at once, mostly only through world boss, from August to around March, then I focused on clearing 1 challenge every time MT was opened, so whole thing was done in like 2 months). Only challenge I consider unfun (in 7.3 casual environment) was healer one, cause it was long as hell.
And of course best thing in beating challenge is moment you beat challenge, same with any grind.
I don't know what you are smoking, but it's bad. You expect Blizzard to never introduce smallsword or flail (these I think are still unique) cause it was in Mage Tower once? Not to mention all but 3-4 weapons didn't have some really unique model, but this specific weapon still remind you that you beat the challenge, like trophy over fireplace.
And let's face it, most people didn't even give shit you have MT weapon equipped 4 years later, maybe only Druid bear form is different.
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Wasn't that maybe part of the charme? You overcame something and from that point you didn't need to bother with it again, unless you wanted it on another character. Though personally I found some of differences in difficulty between classes and the outdated grind for the currency just annoying, not to mention the limited time implementation which heavily relied on people's FOMO, which I already loathe with gladiator items. So I'd agree that people probably remember it more fondly than it actually deserves. Nontheless I think it was a nice base concept, allowing people to fight for some class specific cosmetic items and some story bits, which we had the last time with green fire or stuff like the rogue legendary daggers.
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When exactly did that happen?
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
Well of course, just don't do it and 2 expansions and 4 years later it will be given to you.
You had at least 3 good years to flaunt your awesome and unique skin, who cares if other players can enjoy it too at some point. Complete exclusivity doesnt really work unless the activity you need to do is stupidly easy like the BfA pre-patch mount. And no matter how easy each mage tower was it was still a massive time investment to get one of every single class to max level, and that is not even counting all teh specs yo uwould need to learn,
And yes, I did do all that. The only challenges I didnt do were the Healer ones.
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Well I just checked. And unless it requires talking to an NPC somewhere to unlock them then I still don't have the challenge mode appearances for healer specs.
The world revamp dream will never die!
You'd have to elaborate on that one, because I don't see the few that I couldn't be arsed to get back then.
Edit: If this is indeed about the rapier model (which is different to the rogue MT one) then your argument is complete BS. Do you honestly expect them to never-ever make a weapon that looks like a rapier?
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You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
My monk for example has the tank mage tower staff and he never did mage tower...
HOLY CRAP! They took away the tank mage tower staff appearance from my monk! I know he had it. Huh. Maybe it was an SL pre-patch thing.
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Giving people a choice to where to start their adventure is kinda amazing and a very healthy D&D thing.
Its an evergreen content... since lets say you want to level up 2 human alts and have a different start, then exiles reach is amazing ^^
If you ask me after the revamp... they could even expand on that... so that in the future if they have a cool starting zone idea... they could just make it and then people who start a new alt or character can have 3 places where to start from ^^
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If you are this negative and narrow eyed... well all I can feel is sorry for you...
Open your eyes mate... Legion... BFA and Shadowlands Revamped alot of grapics... on the terrain... trees caves... and structures of all kinds... even random npcs... "just look at the quillboars"
why do you think blizzard has slowly updated those old Npcs and creatures... since a revamp will come soon... and ofc they have to make other stuff... but its way easyer to revamp a thing then make up a new one, at least you have something to start from.
just think about it mate.... each zone in Legion... and BFA was different and revamp something that was not revamped allready... so when they are going to do the revamp of Kalimdor and Eastern kingdomes... half o the job is allready done.
and if you ask me "Stromgarde" was just a fast setup for a future city hub... if they revamp the world they will change stromgarde even giving it a huge naval port since in Lore it has one...
So again, you are just very narrow eyed and like to always look at the glass as half empty... call it realism or what ever you want... but if you did not see all these things... you need to open your eyes ^^
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What are you talking about mate...
They made it possible to use those looks on the different specs on different characters... but if you did not earn it back then you did not get it...
since there are alot of looks that I want now but cant get... so those that got it back then... deserve to have them
so what you say really confuse me
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There were reports about bugged mage tower appearances with the pre-patch, but the thread went to nowhere: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...unlocked/page4
So thanks for confirming that even if it was true, they seemingly removed the wrong skins again from people who shouldn't have them.
No. It's wishful thinking and I don't expect another whole world revamp ever. It's too much work for a too little result. And to expect this for 10.0 when Shadowlands was delayed, 9.1 is delayed and COVID pretty much f* up their schedule? If there were ambitious plans before COVID for 10.0, they've been shelved now imho. We finally might get a new class though.
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Why not have a world revamp?
Blizzard will have to address what is happening with all the plot hooks they purposefully left in EK and Kalimdor eventually unless they are actually planning on leaving it for WoW 2.0.
Sure, next expansion could be Dragon Isles for sure, but what about after that? Are we going to another plane of existence with no real connection to anything happening on Azeroth? Especially considering it would need to be an area mentioned this expansion at the earliest?
A world revamp is inevitable, whether it is revamping Northrend, EK, Kalimdor or even MoP.
The world revamp dream will never die!
It's not even really about the easy way out. At some point the question isnt between [Expansion A: Known location] or [Expansion B: World Revamp]. It will be between whether the expansion will do something nonsensical like have an expansion on a random planet or plane of existence that is not something players know about or whether it will tell at least some stories players want to hear.
The connection the Shadowlands has to the players is tenous at best, especially with how much stuff Blizzard needed to add and retcon to make it function as an expansion. Imagine how it will be when the area we are going to isnt even a place that has been mentioned before.
Do you really think that Blizzard will actively avoid a world revamp even when it is the only sensible option left?
The world revamp dream will never die!