Adding Emblem of Conquest drops and Emblem of Triumph daily quests helped bring many people back to heroic dungeons, for better or worse. As nice as it was to have something to do between raids, it still feels a bit silly as we steamroll through instances to grab 3-5 emblems. Well, you can all stop, for now. The reason is in 3.3, these instances, designed for people with blue gear, will drop emblems that can be used to buy items that have almost twice the amount of stats of any blue gear. That's quite a gear gap.
Of course, this will help new characters gear up faster, but won't it be strange for a new level 80? To go from this to this? Seems like gear whiplash waiting to happen. I can't quite pinpoint it, but it seems throwing out any curve of gear progression will produce players with a limited understanding of itemization and what gear is best for them. There are still players rolling need on epics in heroics (ilvl200) when their current item is from H-toc (ilvl219) or better. Perhaps this design is for the alt-ist in mind - my priest looks mighty funny at the moment with a mix of blues and Ulduar level epic gear, but at least I am familiar with the gear and what to do with it.
As tempting as it is, I don't think I'll be going back to heroic dungeons just to farm emblems, though. The reason is there will be three new 5-man dungeons in 3.3. On top of getting emblems for the heroic version, they will drop a myriad of high-quality items (lvl219/lvl232) that will make it worth my while. Plus I don't have to kill Loken for the 200th time.
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I doubt these changes are going to create more people who don't know how to make gear choices. The only difference is they'll be able to make their stupid decisions earlier. :)
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