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I’m not talking about anything serious and for some people it may not even be a problem. But it certainly has been something I’ve noticed especially within the group of people I play with. The allure for epic gear is always strong and with the bosses in heroics dropping Emblems of Triumph now, gear that was difficult to get for a lot of people suddenly becomes much easier especially with the unlimited potential to run heroics. Of course the Emblem of Frost gear is better but you can only get two of those a day if all you do is run heroics.

I’ve noticed quite a number of people, including myself, spend a lot of time running heroics on main characters while alts are neglected. Before the patch came out, the group of friends I run heroics with would do the heroic daily on one set of characters and switch for round two on a different set of characters. In this sense, the old system gave more time for us to pay more attention to alts. Nowadays it’s more a case of running on mains until we feel like running no more. I consider my mage my primary alt and I haven’t touched him since before the patch came out!

I see this as a “problem” that probably will resolve itself when the “mains” manage to get all the gear they can from Triumph gear unless of course people switch attention to the alts to gear them up. Depending on how many alts a person is willing to gear up, this problem might be here for a while though. How have you managed your characters? Have you noticed the same kind of thing happening to you and your friends?

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This move is quite creative in my opinion because it gives players a certain element that the Sunwell badge gear gave players back in TBC but not giving the whole thing outright. As we know, the Sunwell badge gear did give players a way to bridge the gap between the lower content and the higher content but it also was a bit too much since players could just farm the dungeons for gear as good as the raiders who worked so hard to get theirs. The new idea with Emblem of Triumph gives players a chance to bridge the content gap but at a harder climb and a slower pace. This also allows 5 man dungeon content to become more relevant again. I’m guessing that this is what CM Zarhym was talking about when he announced that new things were in store for the emblem system .

MMO Champion gives us some info from the PTR about more of these new things. According to them, instead of having several tokens corresponding to a certain gear slot, the tier 9 gear system (item level 245) is going to be a one token for any gear slot system. According to them, item level 232 and 245 tier 9 emblem gear can be bought with Emblems of Triumph.

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