You all should be thankful any of you had the patience to even make it to 60. I was too busy rerolling a new character every couple of days
So in response to a post about PLAYERS making a quest difficult you post a video of a guy soloing pve and think it has any validity whatsoever.
This is called being disingenuous and your posts have been the poster child for bad faith discussion. You want a legacy item and so you belittle and dismiss everything people did for them, and anything that contradicts you.
At this point its just sad.
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Thread recap because you’re dense.
I leave here posting:
^^^ it getting absolutely train wrecked in 2005 (hard btw)
You’re then upset because I don’t address:
But the truth of the matter is that it was your choice to play on a pvp server and you 100% get whatever you’ve got coming to you. That was the choice YOU actively made and for you to deal with. If you want anyone to feel any bit of sympathy you are more of a man-child that I could even expected.
Anyway vvvv
You don’t want people to have a legacy item because you had lousy guild members to help you in a pvp zone. and you struggled at level 80 to do a level 60 quest. Just because you did something that you deemed hard you are actively trying to block people from getting an item. The only thing that the items shows is length of time on a game.
So Ill fix my statement
keep your lame fomo item but stop telling people it was hard when it wasn’t. Because that’s being
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Someone is extremely dense but since you don’t understand I’ll explain in very specific and slow terms…when I posted…
I am literally referring to Molten Core to get The Eye of Divinity. Priest could not solo this like a hunter or DK could, honestly to my knowledge they where like the only two classes that could at the time.
Meaning you literally had to at least get one of those classes at best if not others.
However I am once again not at all surprised to see you ignoring all the context that doesn’t support your narrative.
And it was 100% a choice by people who either didn’t pick up WoW or decided to not get the items back when they where available.
Side note my “choice” at the time I rolled on Laughing Skull wasn’t “oh I want to play on a pvp server” WoW was literally my first mmo and I didn’t even realize what MMO pvp was at the time. My choice to roll on Laughing Skull was 100% “my irl best friend says he plays on this server and I want to play with him.” I can accept that I didn’t know everything at the time and it made things harder for me.
I can accept the concequences of those choices and have played on this server dealing with all the pvp that comes with it. You seem to be unable to accept the choices of either not picking up WoW sooner or not getting the items when they where available.
Its amazing how in your book the only people that have to live with the consequences of their decisions are those that rolled on pvp servers and not those that didn’t decide to play WoW sooner, or decided to not get the items when they where available.
Correction, I had, and have, no guild, I play this game with a small group of irl friends and we do content appropriate to that. You don’t see me crying that I don’t get access to all the “ahead of the curb” achievements and mounts or demanding they be made available to me because of that like you, and many others are now.
Correction, I did something that was objectively hard. Just like a Dark Souls challenge runner does things that are objectively hard based on their self imposed limitations. You attempting to belittle that, won’t change that fact.
As I once said, if you want to step up and try to do any amount of pve while being constantly ganked and camped by a squad of pvpers you can talk. Until then you have no basis to actually talk about something being hard or not.
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Trying to justify gatekeeping of a decades old item is just silly to me.
Was it somewhat challenging a long time ago? Maybe.
Was it over 15 years ago? yes.
Heck, Most of the players who obtained it are probably no longer playing, or don’t even mog it. While that doesn’t mean it isn’t an accomplishment, it’s hardly justification for newer players to not also have a chance at receiving the item for the same reasons: Because they like it/want it.
It’s not selfish either. If anything, it’s incredibly selfish to tell other players, who probably didn’t even exist at the time, or weren’t even able to play “better luck next time”.
I agree, things can AND should be brought back in some capacity…whether its anniversary themed, Trading post, a new quest line. Whatever it may be.
I have a bunch of things that are no longer available to other players. But i still don’t care. i got it, it was fun when i got it. Now to let others have the same chance, or at least have the satisfaction of having it. I ain’t going to tell a new player they cannot have it, simply because i got something 15-20 years ago.
I think it’s the nostalgia more than anything and I don’t entirely disagree with it.
Some of the most memorable items I got were from vanilla and BC even though you can still obtain most. You want them to stay special and bringing them back kind of cheapens that, but I understand the other side of the argument too. You want to be able to experience everything your class has/had and it sucks to not be able to.
Do you guys feel the same way about titles? Should “Scarab Lord” be available again? You’ll almost never see someone with it, but when you do, the memories just flow back to the craziness of that time knowing what that person had to do to get it.
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It’s always a touchy subject, simply because people feel strongly on both sides.
Some people think Things should stay away.
Others want everything to return.
too many things to even count. There is no right or wrong answer to these questions, simply a matter of opinion. And while i will hardly put up a hissy fit if the benediction/anamathea never comes back, i don’t believe belittling others simply because they have the same desire for it is right either.
By this logic if I have my job for 15 years, and get higher pay and better benefits because of it, and some random guy with no experience claims they deserve everything I have without my experience I’m the greedy one for pointing out how nonsense that is.
No the person wanting something they haven’t earned just because “I deserve it” is the one being selfish not the one saying “hey I did the work, and put in the time to get what I have.”
Here is the ultimate kicker. Those of us that have the original have almost all said we would be fine with an uprezzed version of the staff coming back, similar to the aniversary tier 2 sets, while leaving the originals alone. This, however, isn’t good enough for the “I deserve it crowd” because having a graphically supperior version of it isn’t the point, its about their own sense of entitlement to anything and everything they want.
Calm down, were talking about pixels. in a video game. Not your job.
then who cares? if it’s going to be the same staff, same look, same color, same name. just has more polygons, what’s the point of this fight? If you have no problem with the uprezzed version that looks 99.999999999999% like the original. Then what’s the problem? Because you did some questline 20 years ago? cool. grab yourself a cookie and some milk and pat yourself on the back. relax.
i think most people came into this conversation very cordial and respectful. and then here you come being all touchy and aggressive, simply because you don’t want others to touch your weapon model.
It’s gonna be just fine. Just people with different opinions on the matter.
Its called an analogy, no I don’t think a job and a game reward are the same. If you can’t, or simply refuse, to understand and discuss the point the analogy made you shouldn’t be having discussions like this.
Look at the uprezzed tier 2, then the normal tier 2, you can tell a difference, and that difference is literally the point. Having an uprezzed version is a legit compromise. Those that want an appearance get something close to it, while those that want to have their time and investment in early WoW respected get that as well.
Disagreeing with you isn’t aggressive. If you are referring to my responses to Autto I suggest you read the entire thread. He intentionally dismissed or ignored points and belittled the effort and time put in to getting the staff originally. When you get treated that poorly you tend to get a bit, justifiably, annoyed.
Cool man, you’re obviously very passionate about this, i just whole heartily disagree with you.
I simply don’t care. it’s a game. If it comes back? awesome, id literally wear it all day every day.
If it doesn’t? cool, i am going to play just the same.
we fundamentally disagree, and you continue to try and make your point to prove yourself right. Cool. Whatever helps you sleep at night man. i simply couldn’t care less.
I think people should be able to obtain more things in this game that were removed. That’s my stance.
the difference is both are available to players. Right now. While the other was cut from the game and is no longer attainable. We can have both and still be happy. I have the full T2, recolor, and the HD. It’s great. Having benediction would be even better.
I just don’t agree with trying to justify to others, about keeping things away from the playerbase. If blizzard wants to come back and go “yea we will bring it back, but it will take 4 months” id be down man. Make it difficult. But allowing the players to get something that is super cool, would make people happy.
If you aren’t happy about that, then idk what to tell you.
You trying convince me or yourself that you don’t care?
Lets put it another way. Should Blizzard keep the promises they have made to players? Because that is what they did when they said these things where going away. They outright said they would not come back.
Now if you believe they should freely break their promises to players whenever it suites you I would suggest you consider the door you are opening for when it inevitability doesn’t.
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Not convincing anyone. Just telling you. You’re all riled up haha
cool man. Doesnt mean a zombie can’t dream. It’s a cool weapon, would love to add it to my collection. If not? 
Doing the Eye of Divinity quest took me I think 3 tries total? I completed it long before BWL released. The main problem was not having any AOE as I was Shadow and wasn’t going to spend money to respect again lol.
So after my first failure, I discovered I can use an Oil of Immolation for the AOE and the rest was cake.
Now granted I was the 2nd best priest healer out of our raids 8 and I got Warlord in PvP so I would say I was your better than average player back then.
Having said all that… I think if you play classic wow now with the new classic servers and get it done… it should transfer to your modern wow transmog option.
That way you can get the appearance if you really want it, but you have to put in the same amount of work.
But that’s my opinion.
You guys can keep your 10 pixels staff model. Fight over it all day if you have to. I’ll HAPPILY take a recolored HD version (of both Anathema and Benediction please).
My original account was purged. Long story short.
I showed blizzard a history of about 30 Transactions and proof of my characters history: Regardless of the fact I proved that I had earned my anathema (and my ghost reveal-er item] They refused to grant it back to me. I’ve placed 3 tickets in over a year or more about it asking again that I’d like to be restored what was proven to have been in my possession. I kept getting replies on sorry we can’t restore your original account [instead of what I asked for]
TLDR: I’d love to get this back again. I don’t feel like a GM has paid attention. This thread felt like the perfect place for me to vent that grief. R.I.P Anathema
If you have the quest ID for “The Balance of Light and Shadow” flagged as complete on the character (GMs can see this) they will grant the item. There is no way you have/had Benediction and not a complete flag for that quest. Ticket them that.
Thank you. Ill try this now.
[Return was denied]
Hello -,
This is the Game Master Ianastidru and I understand that the quest item “The Balance of Shadow and Light” is incredibly important to you, and I truly empathize with the situation you’ve been in.
After reviewing your request and the history of your account, I can see that the item you’re asking about is tied to your original account. However, since the original account cannot be restored, I’m unable to transfer that item directly to your current account.
I want to assure you that I’ve carefully read through your previous ticket notes, and I understand that this specific item is what matters most to you. Unfortunately, I’m not able to fulfill that request directly due to the restrictions of our system.
If there is anything else I can assist with in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Thank you again for your time and dedication to World of Warcraft. We value you as part of our community.
Warm regards,
GM Ianastidru
The response took less than 5 minutes from the time i sent the ticket
From what the GM said I can only assume they can’t verify the quest complete/item possession as it was on a separate/different account? In that case, that denial would sadly make sense. 