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Unfortunately this idea isn’t what you think. It’s not 20 sets of gear giving a unique design for all classes depending on your faction since there are 10 classes and 2 factions. According to CM Zarhym, the sets are designed per armor type per faction, with the classes just getting a different color. This means the Mage design looks like a recolored Warlock design and so on. This is why I’m a bit disappointed. There’s something wrong about Paladins looking like Death Knights, even if you say that the color scheme could make the set fit the class theme. Somehow I prefer having unique class designs even if I have to share it with the other faction.

World of Raids put together a preview of the tier 9 gear as seen from the PTR. It’s not complete yet but it’s almost all there at this point. You can see how the different classes look different per faction but look almost the same across armor types. At least even if the design per armor type are just different colors per class, you can say that the color scheme almost makes them look unique… almost.

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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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