Between badge gear and ZA drops, do I even need T5 gear?

Tankettes last blog post..ZA – I love it – I hate it

I do think that Blizzard did learn a little from this iteration of Badges and may fix some of the issues in Wrath so I’d ask to reserve judgment on that until we know a little bit more.

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Brandon Tilleys last blog post..Preparing for WotLK

The badge gear allowed the core of a raid to overcome challenges that otherwise the raid would have wiped on. It allowed for a proper gearing path for people, other than Tier gear there is not a lot of Paladin gear pre BT / MH for tanking, the tier sets are not MT quality but a basic set and a block set. Without the Badge gear we are sub-parly optimised.

However what should have been done is to make the release of the gear more tiered, so that it happened in a similar way to pvp gear, release seasons, have people able to advance in terms of gear such that there is a continual flow through the game towards the end bosses. The rate fo this release could be based on the stage of your server, if no one has cleared BT there is no T6 flow, till Kael dies no t5 flow and till prince goes down no t4.

Make it a world event, that opens up the world to everyone. Let people earn stuff, give a mount or whatever for stupid numbers of badges (20,000 badges of justice = Spectral Kil’jaden mount ). The PvE progression you talk about is flawed because it stalls people for silly reasons, pvp opens up far more, and thats what we should aim for, is people able to be on the path, if you aren’t on the path why would you play the game.

2ndNins last blog post..On Raiders and raiding

The real story on the badges, of course, is that they had good effects as well as bad. My guild, like Jen’s, made some fast progress with their help. However, our obsession with them was definitely unhealthy, and I really regret all those late night heroics during my sleeping hours! The badges are the item I love to hate, or hate to love, and I really wouldn’t want to repeat the mad dash to collect them out of content that’s otherwise on farm. When I’m done with an instance, I like to leave it behind and focus on the new. That’s much more fun than endless Karazhan.

@Lassirah–I love the name Badgezhan. That’s too cute! And very accurate!

You made the tactical error of showing us all how high the bar is.

Seriously, amazing post.

As far as the content of the post, I agree as far as you go, but I am also somewhat happy that it allows me to care about loot less. I’ve always seen loot as a means to the end of seeing more and more interesting content, and I’m glad that I’m now limited by how much dedication I want to show to it, as opposed to being limited by the RNG gods.

I understand, however, the frustration of seeing wonderful T6 drops, and kind of yawning at them because they’re sidegrades from badge loot.

Anyway, while there are multiple sides to it, I thought you managed to capture the frustrating side of it so well. The images were also hilarious.

(And, as an aside, is the market for epic gems THAT bad on your server? You’d get 3k gold at least for that many gems on my server, more if you’re a JC)

I will tell you this, I care about the priest a lot more because it was harder to get and means a hell of a lot more.

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Awesome post, made me giggle all through it.

Love and kisses (no really!),
Joveta

(sorry, couldn’t resist)