◊ Praetorian

You're nuts if you think those are anything but Sunwell 25-man loot. They're all far superior to t6 gear.

 

Todorka

Priest dps bracers should be swapped with the warlock ones.Otherwise the itemization seems not bad at all!My guess is that bosses will drop 1 or 2 "sunmotes" to prevent the random factor and with the recent changes 3 tokens eh?

 

Tyrana

 

◊ Praetorian

Interesting. That's definitely an ilvl 141 armor value. Perhaps the items aren't finalized.

 

Rokh

Yeah something is weird with the ilvl and armor values; notice that the Paladin Healing helm is superior to Tier 6 in terms of stats, with less armor, while the Tanking Paladin Helmet is also superior to Tier 6, but has more armor. As it should be, but not in the past, at least.

 

Hodor

Is there any possibility one of you guys could get a look at the "old" Tier 6 Items to see if they have changed the stats on those items? specifically the Enhancement Shaman set (Skyshatter Harness).

 

s[orc]ery

If you compare the Boots of the Malefic with Slippers of the Seacaller, there's such a substantial upgrade that it couldn't possibly be ilevel 141. The Armor staying the same is simply a case of Blizzard correcting an itemization problem.

Slippers of the Seacaller
162 Armor
+25 Stamina
+18 Intellect
+18 Spirit
Yellow Socket
Blue Socket
Socket Bonus: +4 Spell Damage
Equip: Improves spell critical strike rating by 29.
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 44.

Boots of the Malefic
162 Armor
+42 Stamina
+26 Intellect
Yellow Socket
Socket Bonus: +2 Spell Damage
Equip: Improves spell critical strike rating by 24.
Equip: Improves spell haste rating by 29.
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 50.

 

Gauss

Current T6 set pieces are 146. Is that 5 item levels of difference? Who knows.

Noobing it up on Mal'Ganis since '06

 

Oaken

I ran the feral druid items through a mitigation spreadsheet - while the armor levels are the same as T6 (except the chest which is considerably lower), the stats make them a huge upgrade over T6.

E.g., properly gemmed while the Mask of the Furry hunter has the same 611 armor, you get another 17 agility and 9 stamina out of it, and another 30 crit rating. All for only the cost of 7 strength.

 

◊ Cadfael

Weather effects:

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Illundai

Some screenshots of the Island and the NPCs I talked about.

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/g...008_031357.jpg

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/g...008_031402.jpg

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/g...008_031452.jpg

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/g...008_031524.jpg

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/g...008_031539.jpg

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1202610284

 

Shadout

I get teleported back to Sunstrider when swimming

 

◊ Praetorian

I wouldn't be surprised if additional vendors (like the badge one) open up as you build the camp.

 

Jubling

There's a Shattered Suns Quartermaster at the staging area ashore with the new Void Sunder, metagems, chest enchant patterns, PvP head glyph, ilevel 121ish blue weapons and epic necklaces for reputation and gold.

 

Masnie

I'm getting the impression that the SSO only has a small camp on that island so far, while the rest is crowded with Demons/Undead/Crazed Sentinels/Evil BEs. Once you complete the quests the camp grows, and maybe the badge vendor won't appear untill a certain progress level has been reached. (just speculation though)

 

◊ Cadfael

The new option screen:

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• Sunchips

Going out on a limb here...Does anyone else think it's possible that the 3 new pieces of tier 6 are the "tier 6 quality badge loot" mentioned on the WoW forums? I know it seems ludicrous, but it really wouldn't surprise me anymore.

 

StormGust

the t6 quality vendor could very well be the Vendor selling the News t6 Items. (waist, wrist and feet)

or the NPC selling/trading those Itemlvl 159 Items. >.<

 

Vodrin

The items required for the items of vendor 'Yrma' are unseen before also correct?

I'm assuming they drop in sunwell and you trade them in for a different piece here to help with 'off-spec' loot. Every piece required an item of the same armor type but say handing in a cloth damage bracer for a cloth healing bracer.

Server just died so i can't check more but it looks like a nice way to combat unwanted items.

And now the server has crashed so not much else to check.

 

Rasputin

MMO Champion has screenshots of the vendors. The T6 pieces are purchased from a vendor with a token that has a wrist armor graphic. I have to believe this means they are tokenized raid drops.

 

◊ Cadfael

There are nagas on the beach who have enslaved murlocs. I don't seem to be able to find any NPC giving a daily quest or even looking like he would. Then again, I'm only level 1

 

rhea

that took a while for you to realise. Sorry for the funny and useless post... well

As for armor values.. maybe they are making it more static per type and agility increases armor also.

 

◊ Praetorian

Yeah, sounds to me like that's their solution to disenchanted loot and the dreaded RNG. If you get four cloth healing gloves in a row instead of cursing your luck you just exchange the extra pairs for nuker gloves and carry on?

 

Moogul

Yeah, what this guy said. Illundai said that you needed a blue drop + sunmote, but it's actually an epic drop - just of a different kind.

For instance, you can turn in some warrior tank shoulders and a sunmote and get some warrior dps shoulders out. Or turn in paladin healing shoulders and a sunmote for prot paladin shoulders. Seems like a new take on token loot.

 

Illundai

Pardon for the mistake with the colours, I'm colourblind so I mixed up blue & purple. They are definitely Epic.