I was trying to get the Mage set from ICC 25H. I have all of the Sanctified Bloodmage pieces except for this belt. When mousing over it in the Sets tab, its blue. The pop up window also says its a boss drop from Shivermaw in Assault on Violet Hold ( Heroic ), which is a Legion dungeon. Why would a 25H piece be blue…and why would it drop in a completely separate dungeon 4 expansions later…
There’s probably two belts with the same model, one from ICC and one from the Legion VH. If you press tab when scrolled over an item in the sets page you can see all the possible drops of items that look like that one.
Yeah, i know about the tabbing. There are no other look-a-likes listed.
Looked into it, I think it’s just how the item distribution goes. All the heroic ICC sets are incomplete because of how the item and raid structure was in wrath. It just happens that blizz added a belt for the set multiple expansions later.
Why is a mystery though.
Yeah, you’d think, if they did decide to add another piece ( again, 4 expansions later ) they would add it to the same dungeon, instead of just saying, “what are we working on…? Assault on Violet Hold…? Yeah, just stick it there…”
Yeah, I mean at least it does drop from a frostwrym that was originally taken from ICC.
They did that with several missing set pieces from ICC–dropped them into Assault on Violet Hold. The warrior 25H boots are fiendishly hard to get from there, and even then, the warrior set is still missing a belt.
eh…
Lorewise ( acceptable, though stretching it…where was Shivermaw being held between the time of ICC and the time of Legion ) …how convient for Blizz that there was an actual connection.
Gamewise ( unacceptable ) …players trying to do this at level, have to wait 4 expansion’s worth of grinding, to complete a level 80 set?
Definitely. I just making the point that it’s not entirely random. It’s still just convenient on their part and completely unacceptable.