So, Blizzard has announced the following in patch 3.2:
Emblem System Changes
- Both the 10 and 25 player instances of the Crusaders' Coliseum drop a new Emblem of Triumph.
- Any dungeons that previously dropped Emblems of Heroism or Valor, such as Naxxramas or Heroic Halls of Stone, will now drop Emblems of Conquest instead. Emblems of Conquest can still be converted to Valor or Heroism.
- The Heroic dungeon daily quest will now reward 2 Emblems of Triumph and the normal daily dungeon quest will reward 1 Emblem of Triumph.
- The existing achievements to collect 1, 25, 50, etc. Emblems of Heroism, Valor, and Conquest have been converted to Feats of Strength since Heroism and Valor Emblems are no longer attainable.
- New achievements have been added to collect various amounts of any combination of emblems.
… and thus began the Armageddon. World ends at 10, Film at 11!
WTF? Seriously, WTF?
Ok, when I first heard about this, it was from my favorite talk-show host TotalBiscuit just completely loosing his cool over this. And I can see why!
So, today, Ulduar drops the best loot in the game, and you can get Emblems of Conquest only by doing Ulduar on 25 man mode. These emblems can be used to purchase T8.5 equivalent gear, INCLUDING two actual pieces of tier 8.5 (Head and chest, at 58 emblems each). You can’t get this stuff from Naxx, or even from 10 man Ulduar – it has to be Ulduar 25 man.
Now, technically, you can get these Emblems of Conquest fairly easily, because almost any group can down Flame Leviathan. It doesn’t take any special raid composition to down FL, since it’s all vehicle combat with a few players launched from catapults (and that’s even optional). The only thing that matters at all is the iLvl of the gear of the players riding the vehicles. You don’t even need to be buffed.
So, these emblems are easy to get from at least one boss. It can be argued that XT-002 has been nerfed so much that he also hands these emblems out like candy. But, there’s still a pretty steep limit to the number of emblems that your average Dumbshit can collect in a given week.
Enter patch 3.2.
So, now in this forthcoming patch, Emblems of Conquest will LITERALLY Drop like candy. Players can get Emblems of Conquest from damn near ANY level 80 boss. All bosses in Naxxramas in either 10 or 25 man mode will drop Conquest emblems, each of Sartharian’s drakes, Malygos.. Hell, even Archavon The Loot Piñata will drop these things. It’s absurd. But it’s not the worst part.
Here’s the worst part: This includes ALL of the Northrend dungeons on Heroic mode. Every boss.
So, how many emblems can you farm in a week? The total count is staggering.
What can you BUY with those? Let’s take a look. The most notable thing to me is the tier gear. You can buy 8.5 Chest and 8.5 helm tokens with these emblems. And, since they’re down-gradable freely to emblems of Valor (and heroism), you can also just walk in and buy 7.5 Shoulders and 7.5 Legs. These are significant because this means anyone who simply runs Heroic 5 mans can walk in and buy the 2pc bonus for tier 8 and the 2pc bonus for tier 7…
I might be able to accept that if it took a while… but it won’t. ANY dip-shit can farm up these emblems in MASSIVE numbers every day.
In addition to these pieces of Tier-Gear, Ass-Hats will be able to buy just about every other gear slot worth of purple gear, all at iLvl 226 or 213. That includes Deadly PvP gear as well as raiding gear.
Ok, so I lied. The above wasn’t the worst part. Here’s the real worst part.
Emblems of Conquest will no longer be the top-tier emblem. There will be a new emblem of Triumph that will only drop from this new raid instance and can be used to purchase tier 9 level gear. So, all that t8.5 loot candy being gobbled up by fuck-tards will still be inferior to the gear being collected by the most elite of raiders, right?? right?
WRONG.
Players will be able to acquire Emblems of Triumph by completing the Daily Heroic and Daily Dungeon quests. Not just emblems of Conquest… the new emblems. The Highest Level emblems that are currency for the highest level gear – players can start acquiring these emblems as soon as they are high enough level to start doing the daily dungeon quests for Northrend. They don’t even have to be level 80!!!
WTF? Seriously, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me. You can collect 3 of these every day by doing the two daily dungeon quests. 21 in a week. Currency for the NEWEST, HIGHEST tier level gear in the game, without ever stepping foot into a raid instance.
WHY BLIZZARD? WHY???????
Note: Please understand that my concern is NOT casual players. I know you don’t have time to play in a raid. But, honestly you do. You can PUG Sartharion in less time than it takes to run a 5 man. As long as you can get out of the fire. My concern, when I say things like Fuck-tards and Ass-hats are the morons who can’t raid – not because they don’t have time, but because they suck at playing sooo badly, that every raid leader either kicks them from the raid or even refuses to invite to raid because of their reputation for being unable to not stand in the fire, or to move away from others when their screen is flashing and alarms are blaring that they are about to explode and kill everyone. These are the Dip-Shits about which I am concerned.
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