i feel like there was more fomo value in the violet spellwing than the mage tower because the mage tower was more about personal skill. So it’s weird that something that was a temporary group reward is being given out like candy. I literally earned mine the night before, hours before BFA launched. I have no issues with people getting another shot at something that is personal skill based. If they really want to protect the old mahe tower skins, then make the lemix versions recolors. But all the time i spent with people feels a little cheaper now. I’m not really a fomo person but i feel like if they’re giving away the spellwing for currency, they might as well just give away mage tower reskins as well. The spellwing definitely meant more in terms of in the moment play, because it was tied to the current raid tier. The mage tower came out before the last patch so you could even overpower it a little.
dracthyr. The Legion artifact weapons were so iconic, when i heard lemix was being speculated on, i was 100% sure blizzard was going to make some artifact weapon skins for the dracthyr so they could at least FEEL like they had the same depth as other classes. Now am i hearing correctly, that you can’t even PLAY one during lemix? That’s definitely a regression against mop remix.
What excites you about Lemix? Right now i’m just kinda let down.
And that’s why the Violet Spellwing is one of the more meaningless things. The MT skins you had to earn. For the Violet Spellwing you could just join a carry group for a relatively small amount of gold and be semi-afk for 10 minutes to get the mount.
It was basically being given out by candy at the end anyway. There were tons of carry groups that were basically giving it away before the achievement went away.
Sad to say but I saw that coming, they can’t just magic up a whole order hall and story and artifacts for a race and class that didn’t exist back then for the event. They’ve done a lot of questionable stuff but that one made sense in a way. Remix is just us running around the content with insane powers collecting bronze, buying cosmetics and mounts, and running the dungeons and raids again. So adding new stuff that never existed like a brand new artifact set and order hall when Legion’s already been told would only make things confusing for people who’ve never done legion going into the remix. We’re most likely not getting the ability to power up artifacts with the talents on them either…worthless sockets perhaps but I don’t think we’re getting artifact points and such with remix either.
I’m hoping the remix goes well and I’m able to enjoy it as much as I was the mists one but we’ll see I suppose.
Since it’s only playable on the PTR, I think I’ll wait to judge it until it’s actually available to play. Things often tend to change from the test realm to the live realm.
I got the mts on the 3 classes i was active on at the time. I just think its weird to lock people out of class skill stuff.
What about the ghost Moose from WoD? Why aren’t they giving that out like candy then. Wasn’t it the same deal? Also this is an MMO. The fomo should be tied to group content if they’re going to do it at all. Why do group content if they’re gonna just hand it out to solo players anyway? People solo old raids already. By your logic we shouldn’t even need it added to the remix.
They don’t need that much. Just add some npcs to dalaran and scenarios for unlocking them. The skins are what really moves the class flavor forward as they’re what sticks. I don’t need the whole legion story for a class not involved in it, just the flavor moving forward.
You can play Dracthyr, just not Evoker. Evokers are one of the least played classes, and probably will be forever, they dropped the ball on that one. And even if that was not the case, they’d either have to make an entire class hall for them, or some half-baked way to add them in.
It’s a pretty thinly veiled Mage Tower thread, again.
Tbf, while I don’t think the Spellwing should’ve been reimplemented, they technically didn’t say “this will be gone forever.” They just took the quest out that rewarded it and never commented on it beyond that.
Completely disagree that the Spellwing had more value as a reward, though. It was quite literally being given away en masse in the leadup to BFA, with Blizzard themselves promoting the groups giving them away.
To put it plainly, an average player could get the Spellwing with relative ease, but struggled mightily to do even one MT challenge. The only reason people believe otherwise are the forum users willfully lying and misrepresenting the difficulty of the old MT challenges to try and get what they want.
The evoker and dracthyr thing was handled poorly imo.
They could have slapped some recolors of the sark leggo for artifacts. They are already using violet hold as a class hall.
Just make the recolors and made an announcement that evokers would have less content but they wanted people to have the option to play them if they wanted.
Exactly! It’s also super weird that people could play evoker in mop remix but not this. It’s literally walking backwards. I’m more disappointed about no evoker than i am about mt. The reasoning for no mt just doesn’t click and they could do recolors instead of originals so everyone wins. But this is blizz. It looks like they’re overcomplicating it and dropping the ball at the same time.
Hint: stop listening to investors when you design systems blizz. I see that the renown systems are just a longer rep reward thing. We ain’t stupid.