7 years ago, you did the Mage tower and got the artifact appearances.
7 years later, Blizzard brings back the Mage tower, updated for the current expansion, and you can get the appearances you did not back in the day with roughly the same effort.
I only remember druid, monk and hunter well but they were great (esp for Hunter, the return of Rok’ and Lok’delar (as a glaive rather than a staff) was nice), I wish I’d realized they weren’t a permanent feature.
It is of course a spectrum. Some people try their best and can’t clear heroic raid while it’s current. For others, AOTC is a week 1 speed bump on their way to Cutting Edge.
It’s all a matter of perspective. It’s why there are LFR > Normal > Heroic > Mythic difficulties.
And “Prestige” is something that people need to get comfortable with not having. You aren’t special.
My favorite part of these threads is when someone comes in claiming the weapons were “easy to obtain, you just had to be there, so they should be kept special for the people who were there at the time” - if they were easy to obtain, then you agree they aren’t prestigious. So they should be readded. Thank you for contributing to the right side.
I dont understand why people care so much about this either way.
Those with the items, youre not special or unique in any way. The value you assign to these items is in your head. No one looks at you and thinks youre cool. No one cares that you have them apart from you.
Stop thinking that having a removed item is a sign of… anything. Because its just so not.
Those without, there are lots of mounts and transmog items in the game.
Are there any in particular that are removed that would enhance your character?
Or do you just want it because you cant have it?
Because if youre not after a particular item… chill.
No reason to be annoyed at not having something you wont even use.
Making their desire known isn’t throwing a tantrum. Coming into the threads and saying no no no it’s limited for a reason, I’ll unsub if they do that, etc is throwing a tantrum.
ok so you think its fine for a person to make thread to have their desire to receive unobtainable items
but someone posting their opinion that limited items should remain limited is not fine?
thats not how the world works. if someone shares their opinion that they should be given every unobtainable item for free, then i am also allowed to share my opinion that these items were always advertised as being limited time, thus they should remain limited time and never return.
also something that i think alot of people forget is that the mage tower variant of the artifact weapons is not always the best looking one:
Ele shaman - best weapon is the balance of power fist weapons
Unholy DK - best weapon is the balance of power sword
Havoc Demon Hunter- Black Temple Warglaives of Azzinoth look way better than the Mage Tower fire glaives.
frost dk - hidden artifact appearance better than the mage tower
and there are others as well but im not going to list them all.
i mean, if people truly just wanted the “best looking” or “coolest” artifact appearances, they wouldn’t even need to get the mage tower weapons for that for many of the classes/specs
You arent the parent and the people asking arent your kids…
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These are paying customers and as such have every right to ask for services they find valuable for the money they spend.