News Roundup: Dragonwrath Legendary Staff Clarifications, 4.2 Firelands Preview Updated

Live Posted 2011/05/10 at 7:05 PM by Miyari

Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's ResteverythingtestDragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest Stats NOT Final

Lylirra

Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest does have a proc, but the information hasn't been included in the PTR data files yet (which means there's nothing to datamine right now).

We did, however, hint at what the proc will be in our 4.2 preview: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2685003

The great staff duplicates destructive magics, and also bestows upon its wielder the ability to transform into a member of the Blue Dragonflight.

Blizzard Poster Daxxarri Deflects Legendary Staff Attacks

Daxxarri

How is a legendary at all legendary when the only way to obtain it is to be in a guild willing to give you 50 of an item over the course of 2+ months?
It's a little early to already be complaining about something you haven't seen or experienced, isn't it?

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wish i got paid to derail threads without responding to a legit question, which was, if i read it correctly, "why don't legendaries assist in progression, as opposed to just sitting in org epeening while my guild has the raid on farm?"

How is a legendary at all legendary when the only way to obtain it is to be in a guild willing to give you 50 of an item over the course of 2+ months?

It's not premature Daxx. It's obvious that the only people who have a chance to obtain the weapon are those that are lucky enough to find raid teams who can farm/are willing to farm raids for a significant period of time. It's just one more piece of content that your average player base will be unable to participate in.
I'm not sure that you can call being a dedicated raider a matter of luck.

I guess, I'd rather like to see the legendary quest as something that a guild sends one person or a small group out to do whilst they raid. Or obtaining a legendary maybe for someone not in an elite raid that might make them then attractive to an elite raid. Then once they've achieved the goal, they come back and participate in the raid. If you raid, you can't get the legendary. If you go after the legendary, you can't raid until you've gotten it.

But this is an altogether too common trend when tough questions, or inconsistencies are pointed out. Avoiding the issue, refusing to acknowledge the points, red herringing people into oblivion... SUPER FUNNY.

if most people think they can never get one, then they aren't an effective carrot

Compensating other guild members with pets is a poor excuse for giving someone a legendary AND an exclusive mount.

Is it just the normal raids or heroic? We know it's more likely to be the normal one but it would help if we had a confirmation for it i think.

I don't know if you can tell us, but this makes me wonder. You said you (don’t) want legendaries to be about random drops anymore. Does that imply that like, the Raid items (I'm assuming there's at least one set of items that's an equivalent of Shadowfrost Shards, etc) are 100% drops, or maybe it's like a soft achievement kind of thing, "Kill Lord Examplegar while he's kited into Raid Mechanic Y and the Firederp Shard will drop"?

...and something only an exclusive number of guilds will likely ever see. So what wholly unprecedented and cool things are you doing for the rest of us?

Legendaries have never been snorendaries when it comes to PvP.

BG and Arenas have their scales tipped when a legendary makes it's way on to the field. This past season you (blizzard) withheld arena weapons such as not to undermine raid progression by making it easier with the pvp weapons.

Will there be (maybe not 4.2, but sometime) a time when legendaries cannot be used in RBG or Arena?

Quick 4.2 Preview Boss Update

Zarhym

Hey all,

We've added new images for Lord Rhyolith and Baleroc to our patch 4.2 preview of the Firelands.

You can check them out here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2682944

Comment by henslock8Baleroc looks incredible!Comment by LoKHorJust wanted to say that the way you guys make the quote boxes within blue quotes stick out to the right over the border of the blue post is very stylish. I appreciate a clean, styled site and wowheadnews is very nicely formatted indeed. I just think that wee extra bit of style is a nice little touch when reading through blue posts that contain user quotes. :)Comment by buzz3070Hmmm i know everything is subject to change but did anyone notice the staff is boe?Comment by PorcellIt's actually easier to get started on the path to acquire this legendary; the journey itself is more difficult though. Regardless, players who have cleared the prior tier of raid content are the only ones eligible to begin the quest line -- any player who's part of a group which is capable of accomplishing that probably has a good shot at getting a staff for themselves.Comment by DragoonmanBaleroc does look great, and Dragonwrath will have the ability to turn a person into a blue dragonkin? Yes.Comment by OverZealousBaleroc looks insane, I agree.

inb4 OMG BALROG

Also, I for one like how they're giving the rest of the guild assisting the player in obtaining Dragonwrath something at all.