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#0 - Oct. 23, 2009, 4:11 p.m.

Two things I was sorry to hear.

The first was that T10 isn't going to be straight tier tokens. Tier tokens were great for BC, Naxx, and Ulduar, I'm not sure why you are requiring us to use badges to buy tier gear, then get a token to update it. Go back to plain old tier tokens.

Secondly, sad to hear that content will come in super easy and really hard. Its great that content is more accessible to the masses, and its great you are trying to provide hard content for the best raiders, but what about the average raider? Are we really going to be doomed to a place where progression is like running into a wall, where normal mode is a face rolling joke? Raids need a medium mode, and maybe even a nightmare mode for the really top end guilds.

I get that you want better loot for harder modes, and maybe the amount if time needed to make the gear is a roadblock, but maybe just more loot would be acceptable? Easy mode gives normal loot, medium mode gives 1-2 more drops of normal loot per boss, hardmode gives hardmode loot, and nightmare mode gives 2-3 more drops of hardmode loot, and maybe a chance at some rare mounts or other such things.

This way you can offer more options, and the better the group performs the better the rewards.

Ghostcrawler

#5 - Oct. 23, 2009, 5:12 p.m.

As other players have pointed out, the "medium" difficulty comes at doing some of the easier bosses in heroic mode. ToC only has 5 encounters, so there isn't a ton of granularity. Icecrown has more (though not 31) so we can provide more granularity.

I also have a hunch that some of the bosses on normal mode are going to be more challenging than the final boss of ToC normal for the same reason.

We have a couple of tweaks to the trophy system for Icecrown that we think capture the best of both the Ulduar and ToC systems.

Ghostcrawler

#32 - Oct. 23, 2009, 6:27 p.m.

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Nononono, EVERY boss in ICC should be harder on normal than anub25man on normal, not just some. If they drop better gear they should be harder than people that drop lesser gear... Id say that the ICCnormal25 some should be harder than the ToC heroic modes...

They are harder in an absolute sense because they hit harder and have more health. They are not harder (for the most part) in a relative sense because you probably have better gear now than when you first went into ToC. Our goal is not to let players raid all the up until Icecrown and then throw a gate in front of them that says "Must be this elite to ride this ride."

Now, if you are that elite, Arthas heroic says hi.

Ghostcrawler

#55 - Oct. 23, 2009, 9:42 p.m.

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Dude better kick some SERIOUS ass.

Dude is in fact the Lich King.