Will Burning Crusade make your gears of WoW obsolete?
There’s a question to greet endgame and high-level players who log on to The Burning Crusade on release. “With all the new stuff in the expansion, did my equipment just get obsolete?” It ain’t just a useless question, too, especially when you hear that there’s a Fel Reaver coming your way… RUUUUUN!
A question that someone in WoW Insider has set out on a quest to answer, thanks to Beta. Her results are: Tier 1 equipment get replaced almost immediately, Tier 2 will work until the Level 60’s, and Tier 3 will take it all the way to Level 70. There’s also a ton of discussion going on in the official forums, a commenter noted, so WoW Insider’s experiences may be one out of many opinions regarding trading in gear.
But there are a few hard and fast lessons WoW Insider can give from all that experience. Hang on to the high-powered weapons you’ve earned in the original World of Warcraft; the observation is that the stuff dropped in Burning Crusade don’t exactly represent a dramatic jump in DPS performance. But, we observe, don’t take the word of a Paladin from Warcraft III, whose advice would be:
“Is that a sword? LUXURY! Is that a horse? SLOTH! Is that a helmet? VANITY!” Trust me: those won’t just be flesh wounds you’ll be receiving from the Horde…
Via WoW Insider
There’s a question to greet endgame and high-level players who log on to The Burning Crusade on release. “With all the new stuff in the expansion, did my equipment just get obsolete?” It ain’t just a useless question, too, especially when you hear that there’s a Fel Reaver coming your way… RUUUUUN!
A question that someone in WoW Insider has set out on a quest to answer, thanks to Beta. Her results are: Tier 1 equipment get replaced almost immediately, Tier 2 will work until the Level 60’s, and Tier 3 will take it all the way to Level 70. There’s also a ton of discussion going on in the official forums, a commenter noted, so WoW Insider’s experiences may be one out of many opinions regarding trading in gear.
But there are a few hard and fast lessons WoW Insider can give from all that experience. Hang on to the high-powered weapons you’ve earned in the original World of Warcraft; the observation is that the stuff dropped in Burning Crusade don’t exactly represent a dramatic jump in DPS performance. But, we observe, don’t take the word of a Paladin from Warcraft III, whose advice would be:
“Is that a sword? LUXURY! Is that a horse? SLOTH! Is that a helmet? VANITY!” Trust me: those won’t just be flesh wounds you’ll be receiving from the Horde…
Via WoW Insider
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