So this has been something of an interesting topic to watch, because there are a few emergent schools of thought as I have seen them – people who want Mage Tower back with the old rewards, people who want it back with the T20 recolors only, people who want it back with both the prestige skins and the T20 recolors as rewards, and people who don’t want it back, for a variety of reasons (gameplay or just the prestige of the experience, I suppose). Intentionally, it is sort of a note to show that you were there at that level during Legion, and it makes the reward special, in theory at least, that it is not universally obtainable or something that a higher-leveled player could go back into and steamroll. It was built and made to be a skills challenge locked to that period in time – Legion skills and powers, stat scaling as appropriate, and with gameplay built specifically for that time, with a reward that had an expiration date noted fairly early in the lifecycle of that content. The Mage Tower is, more than anything else in the game, a shining example of timelocked, no longer obtainable rewards. Those two items together have been enough to create a firestorm of debate. That would also be weird, especially since the armor models used for these new colors are the Mythic-variant or Elite PvP sets, with increased details and additional particle effects. Alongside this datamining has come a series of new tints for the Tier 20 class sets from the Tomb of Sargeras raid, which themselves were HD remastered versions of Tier 6, one of the more iconic tiers for class looks (except for the 3 classes which did not exist then, which got new armor, with DH and Monks getting cool stuff and Death Knights getting…uh, not cool stuff). Now, this doesn’t inherently mean anything – we have no confirmation of what this tuning is for or what form it will take if any in the finished patch, but the fact that they are doing it at all signals something – given the now-deprecated nature of the Mage Tower content, action taken to tune and change it would seem to be wasted…unless it was coming back. The tuning was in-line with that being done for the dungeons used in Timewalking for the addition of Legion dungeons in 9.1.5, but slightly higher values. Wowhead found datamining suggesting tuning being done to the Legion Mage Tower scenarios. There was a lot of WoW news to discuss while I was gone, mostly about the contents and changes of patch 9.1.5, but I want to focus on something near and dear to me. I would have had a post yesterday, but after a near 7 hour drive to get home and a 2 hour raid, my 90 minutes of attempts at my original post idea (a wrestling one that I am going to keep chipping away at eventually!) bore no fruit, so I gave up, gave it a sleep in my own bed and a full day to let things percolate.
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