I don’t understand some of the decisions being made and want to give feedback from a player who has been here since vanilla. This is all minor, certainly, in the grand scheme of things. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Blizzard…
You have a red version and a pink version of the exact same armor set available this month. Why is the much more universally appealing red one not the monthly reward, and the pink one the one available on the shop? Moreover, the red & gold pieces of the shop one are also far more useful to mix & match with other pieces in the game than the much more limited pink & teal of the monthly reward. I dunno, just feels bad (and frankly, intentional) when it seems the more desirable version of something is the one we have to pay extra for. Not to mention the red set is the one that matches all the weapons on offer. Speaking of the weapons…
You have an entire class (monk) heavily themed in many similar ways to the Lunar New Year aesthetic on the shop this month, but a couple of the weapons you have on offer are not really usable by them. Why have this great-looking dagger that would suit monk so well, but they can’t equip daggers, when it could have just as easily been a 1H sword? Why have this lantern as an OH that only mistweaver can equip, when you could have hung the same lantern on the end of a staff and all three monk specs could use it?
Like I said, small gripes. Just feels like these are pretty common sense items tho and that no one who is mindful is looking over the particulars on the trading post, as stuff like this is a recurring issue.
Man, almost like back when the februrary event first came around we had a pink rocket, corporations selling chocolate and whatnot with pink dresses to boot.
Makes’ ya wonder if the game ever DID have integrity.
This irked me as well. I suspect they’re doing it deliberately since they did the exact same thing with the steampunk train outfit from January’s TP. They gave us the meh green version and locked the gold one behind TP. Basically it boils down to Blizz trying to bait people to spend more TP.
Yes, it was probably intentional that the “better” red set requires tender to purchase while we get the other for free.
While I was surprised that the blade was a dagger and not a sword, monks are just one class. There’s no real reason to expect them to cater to them specifically with this event. Especially since the lunar stuff has more to do with druids than monks in this game…aesthetics aside.
Hell, why isn’t the broom mount the monthly reward. Going into the whole Trading Post biz Blizz said the monthly reward would be the item most people would want. Since then, they’ve flipped it to the monthly reward often being the thing the least amount of people would want, like that dumbass target back, or items that can only be used on some classes and not others.
We just saw this last month too with the green engineer items being the reward when I’ll bet more people would have wanted the yellow. Yellow being the color associated with mechanical, like, construction equipment here in the real world.
They just can’t help themselves. They cannot bring themselves to put the best item as the monthly reward, even though they said that was their intent.
There are some items in the game with the same appearance for different weapon types. There’s polearms with the same look as staves, and vice versa. So, I don’t know why they couldn’t have slapped this item on there twice, one as a sword and one as a dagger. It wouldn’t have taken much time.
I hope so. More options are always better. Would Blizz prefer to keep paying customers who like dressing up their characters or would they prefer they head over to Infinity Nikki? Anyone who doesn’t want to play dress up in WoW is free not to.
Once in a blue moon they’ll add something desirable, but it’s certainly the exception to the norm. Half the mounts aren’t even worth picking up if you have over 500.
Trading Post stuff is a lot of old assets sitting in their files, collecting dust. This was a marketing tactic to use stuff they didn’t have to spend much time working on, because it’s all existed for quite some time in the art department’s files.
I’m personally glad they’re doing this. I can’t fathom why people would complain about what amounts to a monthly login rewards system.
I was so happy to see it would be free reward.
