Bringing back tier climbing in MoP withe T15

• 2013-01-14 13:36:56

If you've missed it, there will be two tiers in just the first patch. Mogu'Shan Vaults will be T14, and the Heart of Fear and the Terrace of Endless Springs will be T15. T15 is supposed to be released a couple of weeks after T14. They exclusively said that T15 is supposed to be tackled with T14 gear as well, not dungeon/heroic gear.

The tier-climbing in early WoW was pretty awesome in most people's opinion, as it made you strive to grow ranks. In both vanilla and TBC, the highest tier raids were unaccessable to the grand majority of the population. Raids are like women. Most of the time, playing hard to get will only make you want it more. (I think this is why most people keep saying "naxx/swp was so epic". Most of them never even visited either place in the respective patches).

Item lvl upgrade to 503

Personally, I'm hoping this is a good in-between. Hopefully, the gear requirements for T15 LFR will be higher than the gear obtained in T14 LFR only, and you'll have to at least farm some gear in normal T14 to get in. Having only one tier to go through to get to the top is the "climb" I have been missing from Vanilla, whilist not being big and boring enough to demotivate people from trying to gear up more than one character for the top tier of raids. In 5.1, there will probably be a new tier of heroics that will let you skip climbing through T14 and T15, and get ready for the (hopefully two) new raid tiers, 16 and 17.

How will getting back the "epic/annoying" tier-climbing we had in vanilla/TBC/WotLK until the ToC patch (3.3) - which introduced more than one tier of Heroics, as well as VP gear - affect the game?

EDIT: Loot overview (crazy paint skills!) (thanks to Gruffertus for the numbers):