Should Ulduar-10 give Emblems of Valor?
Eliah Hecht has a really good post up today on Wowinsider discussing Blizzard’s decision on how Emblems will work in Ulduar. To summarize, Ulduar 10-man will drop Emblems of Valor, the exact same Emblems that currently drop from Naxx-25. Only a few new ilvl213 items will be added to the Emblems of Valor vendor, even though the drops in Ulduar-10 will be of ilvl 219. So, 10-man raiders will actually be purchasing gear that is worse than what gets dropped from the bosses they’re killing. 10-man raiders won’t be able to buy any of their 10-man Tier gear with Emblems (unlike 25-man raiders) and they won’t have any chance at the new legendary mace.
I have no problem with 10-man raiders getting worse gear than 25-man raiders. In fact, I agree this should be the case. However, 10-man raiders should at least get the same treatment as 25-man raiders. They should get their own new Emblem and vendor and they should get their own version of the legendary mace. It makes no sense to me that Blizzard would give Naxx-25 Emblems of Valor for completing Ulduar-10. Naxx-10 and Naxx-25 both have their own Emblems and vendors. Ulduar-10 and Ulduar-25 should both have their own Emblems and vendors as well.
I mainly run in 25-man raids right now. However I’d really like to see Blizzard go back and re-think their policy on Emblem drops in Ulduar. They dropped the ball on this one.
This makes perfect sense; why hasn’t Blizzard hired you yet?
Does this have something to do with the way they are setting up the Ulduar raid? What I’ve heard and read is that the raiding will depend upon the ilevels of the gear your group has. I’m not exactly conversant on what they plan to do with this, but what I’m getting at is, if you can now get EoVs from Ulduar-10 and can then exchange them for ilevel 213 items, that should help your raiding progression IF you aren’t raiding in Naxx-25 . . . Just trying to understand Blizz’s logic here, if there actually is any.
The only thing I’ve heard about wierd item level things in Ulduar is that there will be an achievement for clearing Ulduar (possibly hard modes) while everyone is only equipped with items of a max item level. I don’t think it has anything to do with the emblems though.
I think that 10 man Ulduar should drop Emblems of Valor BUT they need to introduce new items that can be bought with Valor emblems to make doing 10 man Ulduar more worthwhile.
Nah. If Ulduar-10 dropped Emblems of Valor and they added new items, then people would just save up and spend all their Emblems of Valor as soon as the patch comes out. That’s the reason Blizzard has stated they’re not adding new items. But a better solution to that problem is to just give Ulduar-10 its own Emblems.
I agree that 10mans should get their own versions of items. Some people don’t have the time to be actively part of a guild that runs 25mans. Pugs are an option from time to time but even that is a headache and can take all day.
I know one holy Paladin who needs to get that mace!