I can 100% get down with what you’re saying, but I’m just responding to the OP. Which mainly concerns the price point.
A naxx flavored mage tower would be interesting, but Blizzard is a small indie company.
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I’m not even going to bother starting the whole process. Not if I’m required to either camp the BMAH to get a full set of T3 before I can even purchase the crafting recipes (which if I have the set already why would I bother?) or track down some one who farmed the original Naxx back in the day.
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Did you know that if you wait even a few months, it won’t be that price? Cuh-razy, right?
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This still seems a bit high - especially when you consider all the work involved.
Something in the 100k-150k per set seems better since there are 13 sets?
The 2.8 mil is the raw gold price from the vendor. You need 1400 of an item that the vendor sells to you for 2000g a pop. That excludes the other items you will need.
9 Set, only the vanilla classes have a set. Evokers, DH’s, DK’s, and Monks do not.
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Ok yeah so still more than enough for someone to collect them all. But 2.8million per set???
Just seems really disrespectful to the players.
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Pretty sure Rory is the ghost at the end of the dock.
The 2.8m price tag is purely from vendor bought material - Phylacterweave - which costs 2000g a piece. Each token requires 10 righteous orbs and a specified amount of phylacterweave to be turned into a piece of T3:
Helm - 280 phylacterweave
Shoulders - 280 phylacterweave
Chest - 210 phylacterweave
Bracers. - 70 phylacterweave
Gloves - 140 phylacterweave
Belt - 70 phylacterweave
Legs - 210 phylacterweave
Boots - 140 phylacterweave
That’s just for a single set of T3.
EDIT: this is also ignoring that to even get the recipe to make the tokens, the crafter has to already posses a full set of T3 to get the Feat of Strength - Drop Dead Gorgeous. That, more than any other part of this grind, is the most stupid and egregious.
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Well that ain’t happening for me either haha
Really not too bad though when the average casual is earning 5million gold per month give or take.
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I’m pretty casual and I don’t make anywhere near that much gold. I’m lucky to even reach 200k between my current characters.
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one or two thing might happen with the undeath part
if crafter refuse to make them
1 the achievement part might be removed
2 the item will be a boss drops
Eh thats not even half the issue, the other half is needing the huge amount of gold to create a full T3 set from the vendor item.
The gold price is stupid but that’s not even the thing that bothers me the most about this. Its the fact that you have to find someone with a full T3 set already to craft one of the pieces you need to make the T3 piece. There are so many problems with that.
So to start, not only does the person have to have the full T3 set for the recipe thing, but they have to go through the whole process of unlocking Scholo stuff, then going on to unlock the Naxx stuff, farm the instance over two weeks or farm strat/old scholo to get the recipe for the item. Who’s to say anyone with a T3 set is going to do this? Gold? I guarantee you that most people that have a full T3 set most likely does not have any gold problems, especially if they obtained the sets pre Legion since the gold cap pre legion was only 1 mil and gold was stupid easy to farm in WoD. According to wowhead (I know its not 100% accurate but its a good baseline), only 2% of accounts have the “Drop Dead Gorgeous” achievement, so good luck finding someone with the achievement that is willing to go through everything above to get the recipe and then craft it for you, and if you do find someone like that, you better be ready to drop a stupid amount on a commission price for them.
Also, it would not surprise me in the slightest if a majority of people who went for T3 from the BMAH avoided the bracers and belt, the belt for most of the sets looked meh, and you can’t even see the bracers so a lot of people probably avoided those 2 pieces, making a full set even more rare. I know if I was going after the set from the BMAH, I would avoid the bracers and belt.
I just want to know what the point of this whole thing was. It obviously wasn’t to make the sets more accessible, the reason the sets were not very accessible from the BMAH was gold cost, and this does nothing to change that, if anything, it makes the sets less accessible. 2.8 mil just from the vendor price, then probably another 2mil for crafting prices if you can even find someone willing to get the recipe. Why would I spend months trying to get all of the required materials on top of millions of gold, when I can just go wait at the BMAH that takes 2 minutes a day to check and just have to spend the millions of gold. I just don’t understand.
And why is T3 elevated to such a high pedestal? Its no different then other Tier sets except for the fact the raid it came from was removed. Other tier sets back in the day were just as hard to get, yet you can go back now and one shot all the bosses and just loot them, so why this extensive process and ridiculous gold cost for this specific tier set? I bet anyone anything that the T3 wouldn’t even be that rare if transmog had been in during Vanilla or TBC, most people who had the sets probably sold them because they had no idea about Xmog and prior to wrath announcement thought it would still be obtainable just like any of the other TBC or Vanilla tier sets were. It just makes no sense.
I was super excited for all of the Scholo and Naxx stuff, but after looking through everything required for T3, I lost all motivation to unlock any of this stuff and to even play the game anymore. I lvled up my classic blacksmithing to 300, farmed out a bunch of the materials I thought would be required and had everything ready to go through and get this stuff, but it was all for nothing, I’ll never be able to afford the gold requirements. This was probably the last chance I had to get T3 outside of the BMAH and it was dead on arrival. I guess I’ll never get T3 Dreadnaught. Thank you blizzard, thank you for crushing my hopes again, you are becoming better and better at it with each patch.
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You have to imagine WoW token sales for cash were a factor discussed in making the decision to add T3 crafting back into the game at the prices we’re seeing. The North American token price has dropped over 10% since yesterday alone, with people FLOCKING to buy it due to this 2.8m gold minimum price tag to craft a full set of T3.
At this point it would take a lot to convince me otherwise.
On one hand I really like stuff like this, hidden out of the way hunts that have us deep diving into old zones like Waist of Time, Baa’l, ZG and I especially enjoyed that they brought back old Scholo but on the other hand the end result where you’re just hit with this massive wall for T3 is just…oof.
I imagine it’s going to suck now and in like a year or so when a lot more people have chipped away at that Drop Dead Gorgeous FoS it will become a walk in the park.
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thats the wait part player that need to get that achievement to get the work orders done i have like 5 on the table lol
You basically answered you’re own question. It’s solely because old Naxx was removed in Wrath that artificially inflated the value of Tier 3. It’s the same with any particular item that Blizzard just arbitrarily decides to remove its source content from the game. And the sweaties eat it up and feel special they can lord a few pixels over everyone else that didn’t have the fortune to be playing the game at that moment in time.
Honestly, it’s not the ridiculous price tag that annoys me. It’s the Feat of Strength requirement on the recipes. People who don’t meet the requirements are at the mercy of either Vanilla veterans who kept their T3 or AH goblins who camped at the BMAH. And the people who do meet the requirements? They already have it. Why would they bother getting the recipes for something they already have? It’s one of the dumbest decisions they’ve ever made, and I’ve been playing this game since 2007.
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I wouldn’t even care about collecting the mats. I’d do that myself. It’s the simple fact that they are gatekeeping it behind a Feat of Strength that I take issue with. Seems unnecessary.
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/Puts a nice coat of polish on his Feat of Strength achieve
Cant wait to price the crafts
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