While I respect the show of power that the Challenge mode dungeon appearances represent, as time crawls forward and we approach 9.0 I wonder if blizzard will make them acquirable again, even if through entirely different means.
A fair idea would involve running Scaled up difficulty versions of the Dungeons from Pandaria or Warlords in order to earn them, in a manner not too dissimilar from mythic plus.
Oh what i wouldn’t give for those amazing appearances!
Edit: Recently suggested was putting them on the Black Market Auction House. Which i think is a better solution.
Because it was time sensitive content. It’s disrespectful to players who put in time and effort during a period where they understood that xmog pieces were going to disappear. Also I personally don’t want Blizz wasting their time on old content.
It doesn’t moot out the chance for new content, and besides. It’s been 4 years, and we have a much better and more fleshed out system for making dungeons more challenging. So why not make them just as hard, if not harder to get, now that we “Have the Technology”?
Because any time they do some form of timewalking to previous content they severely nerf it to the point that it’s simple. Things like the timewalking raids were made to be a cakewalk instead of an actual challenge. I’d rather see them work on new exclusives with the dungeons we have now.
I suppose my issue boils down to the fact that there was very little reason to DO dungeons back then. As opposed to now where Mythic Plus is a viable alternative to endgame raiding.
New challenge appearances would be great, but if blizzard doesn’t give us any new appearances, then as we approach 5 years later, at least make the appearances, or similar appearances available to the players. Otherwise it’s wasted content.
If we were getting new challenge mode dungeons, that would be great. but it ain’t happening.
Hell they could even REUSE the appearances for new challenge mode dungeons.
Ya, hopefully they wont be reintroducing them, but I put my vote in for more challenges like this that encourage playing and completing competitive content.
Perhaps the rank 4 essences can be translated into something like this?
Not sure what their future is, but would love to keep some of these years from now.
But it’s not wasted content. It’s the exact same feeling that I have for the Elite sets that I have in PvP. For me it wasn’t wasted content because I put in the time and effort to get the reward. And I myself feel proud for what I’ve accomplished in game.
I think if Blizzard went the direction of telling everyone that certain xmog pieces are going away if they don’t hit a certain criteria and then years later say, “Haha! Just kidding!” then it would cause a ton of outrage. Just like the “See you Later” bundle.
Maybe the Challenge Mode Appearances could be added to the BMAH? Vanilla Nax 40 gear sets became unobtainable, and you are able to occasionally pick up pieces from those sets like the “Dreadnaught Plate Gear” on the black market.
(yes, im biased. I didnt play MoP, and I really want the DK Challenge set. The watered down version of that set, which is the Legion Class Hall set, greatly pales in comparison)
I… Hadn’t considered this at all. But that idea works just fine.
The gear would still be incredibly exclusive, but to those few who REALLY care, and have a TON of gold. it would still be acquirable, if just barely.
That’s such a clever solution I’m jealous i didn’t think of it first.
But while they aren’t doing that, Putting the old ones on the BMAH after 5 years would be pretty good, they’d stay VERY rare, and that’s literally the BMAH’s job. Just like Tier 3 Naxxy