TBC Likes and Constructive Criticism

#0 - May 22, 2008, 7:50 p.m.
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In this thread please write about things you liked in The Burning Crusade, and also improvements you would make upon these things. Here are a couple of mine:

Badge Rewards - I really like the how even when you keep missing out on raid drops, you are still building towards gear improvements. This system improved when they added these to all raid encounters, and not just heroics.

Heroic Dungeons - What a great way to keep content interesting at lvl 70. Unfortunately most of the rewards from heroic dungeons do not seem on par with the time or difficulty to run these. I know that they are all easy now that everyone is overgeared for them, but do you remember your first heroic runs in all blues? It would be nice to have the rewards slightly buffed from these encounters.

Cross Over Rewards - Being able to take multiple paths to rewards is a great addition. This includes badges for pvp gear, tokens for pvp gear. I would like to see more crossover, such as arena points for badges. It would also be a great addition to have multiple paths to the highest end pvp gear, so that arena is not a required activity. For example, perhaps not the current season, but always have the last season available for honor, but at a much higher amount than the gear 2 seasons back. It would also be great if rewards from world pvp events could cross over as well, such as trading in halaa tokens for badges or honor. Or every time you get a world pvp kill, you collect ears that you can trade in for badges, honor points, or possible arena points. The more paths to rewards the better.

Arenas - Although very contentious at the moment, arenas are fun to participate in when they foster real competition. I do not think arenas should be the end all for pvp rewards. Adding multiple paths to the high end pvp rewards would help take all the focus off of arenas. The format could also be built upon to include larger 10 v 10 encounters, or possibly a premade (raid) ladder for bg's. Unfortunately the current format magnifies class imbalances which takes away from its competitive nature. Please don't turn this into an arena thread.

PVP Quests - I love these. I wish there were more so that one could make pvp a viable option for leveling. I'm hoping that you can get a level up just by participating in world pvp in WotLK.

So please, feel free to share what you liked in TBC, and then offer thoughts on how to improve on these. Lets try to keep this thread constructive. Thanks.
#15 - May 22, 2008, 10:20 p.m.
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Thanks, Scarpa. Nice thread.