Blackrock TBC announcement

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Originally Posted by Malaco

Hello everyone,

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Blackrock TBC!
This server will follow the same progression through patches as Onyxia, ensuring a synchronized experience across both servers.

We’ve previously hosted a similar system on Frostmourne during its progression cycle, which had a positive impact on arena and BG activity.
Building on that success, we’re introducing a new approach for Blackrock TBC.

- Release date 23 November (phase 1 starts on onyxia)
- x1 Honor rates (same as onyxia)
- x2 Arena point flush rates (same as onyxia)
- PvE gear via Gear crates

Gear crates will be obtained through weekly PvP-related quests that simulate boss encounters by introducing challenging objectives in both arenas and battlegrounds that will boost activity.
Each completed quest will be the equivalent of a boss kill and the gear crates will contain the same loot table as each specific boss.
As in PvE raiding, there is no guaranteed chance of receiving a specific item on boss kill, therefore we’re introducing this RNG element.

We’re gladly accepting ideas for quest objectives.

A PTR server with the gear crate system will go live before the launch.

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What about profs, gems, etc?

Im updating the main post with FAQ

- Raiders on Onyxia will have a shot at every boss for loot. Will something similar be implemented for Blackrock as well?
Yes. The idea is to create a weekly questline so you need to "kill all bosses" in order to progress through the quests.
Therefor limiting one boss per week as on Onyxia.
As for heroic gear (mid tier) it will also be obtainable through quests but not as challenging as the raid ones

- Gems, Enchants?
They will be available but a small honor cost.

- Engineering?
We will use 2.4.3 rules for engineering items in arena. It will limit most engineering items

Regarding professions im kinda split.
TBC didn't really offer any good bonus except like enchanting and engineering. Maybe blacksmith in the start.
What do you guys think of how it could be implemented? Considering enchants and gems cost honor

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Originally Posted by Malaco

Im updating the main post with FAQ

- Raiders on Onyxia will have a shot at every boss for loot. Will something similar be implemented for Blackrock as well?
Yes. The idea is to create a weekly questline so you need to "kill all bosses" in order to progress through the quests.
Therefor limiting one boss per week as on Onyxia.
As for heroic gear (mid tier) it will also be obtainable through quests but not as challenging as the raid ones

- Gems, Enchants?
They will be available but a small honor cost.

- Engineering?
We will use 2.4.3 rules for engineering items in arena. It will limit most engineering items

Regarding professions im kinda split.
TBC didn't really offer any good bonus except like enchanting and engineering. Maybe blacksmith in the start.
What do you guys think of how it could be implemented? Considering enchants and gems cost honor

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I'm also wondering how items such as "magtheridon's head" quest will work? the ring is BIS for all healers, and also melee dps.

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Originally Posted by Malaco

Im updating the main post with FAQ

- Raiders on Onyxia will have a shot at every boss for loot. Will something similar be implemented for Blackrock as well?
Yes. The idea is to create a weekly questline so you need to "kill all bosses" in order to progress through the quests.
Therefor limiting one boss per week as on Onyxia.
As for heroic gear (mid tier) it will also be obtainable through quests but not as challenging as the raid ones

- Gems, Enchants?
They will be available but a small honor cost.

- Engineering?
We will use 2.4.3 rules for engineering items in arena. It will limit most engineering items

Regarding professions im kinda split.
TBC didn't really offer any good bonus except like enchanting and engineering. Maybe blacksmith in the start.
What do you guys think of how it could be implemented? Considering enchants and gems cost honor

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Thanks for clarifying!

Ideally, Blackrock players would just get to choose any 2 professions and be 375. It's so little impact as you're saying, but still important to min-max to the point that gating these seems unnecessary.

Any clarification on skull of impending doom and MQG (if it will be available to blackrock, or not allowed in arena) I think are the two biggest things left at this point as we wait for PTR to begin so we can help out there.

Thanks again for your communication.

so basically there is no point for pvp players to play on onyxia. You can get pve items doing pvp(even better cuz u dont need to spend 3h on raid or looking for guild raiding in your free time,waiting for item cuz someone in guild need it first).dont need waste time to farm gold for enchants,gems,profesions. Dont need level ur character. Just log on, do bgs and arenas and probably u gonna have better pvp gear than people playing on onyxia xd

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Originally Posted by jikzyo

so basically there is no point for pvp players to play on onyxia. You can get pve items doing pvp(even better cuz u dont need to spend 3h on raid or looking for guild raiding in your free time,waiting for item cuz someone in guild need it first).dont need waste time to farm gold for enchants,gems,profesions. Dont need level ur character. Just log on, do bgs and arenas and probably u gonna have better pvp gear than people playing on onyxia xd

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Go do some research on how PvP gearing works in TBC then try posting again. On the contrary, Onyxia players will be better geared by 1 week's flush (2 flushes here) than any blackrock player will.

idk what u mean. no1 care about gear in 1st or 2nd week in game..farming honor gonna be same, but pve items for doing pvp activity is game changer. most pvp players dont like to do raids or waste 3h on raid instead of doing arenas. If it gonna be easy to finish weekly quests for gear crates blackrock gonna be much better server for every pvp player

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Originally Posted by pootang6969

I'm also wondering how items such as "magtheridon's head" quest will work? the ring is BIS for all healers, and also melee dps.

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We can include it in the magtheridon gear crate but with a 4% droprate so it would simulate a roll.

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Originally Posted by Blakeatron

Thanks for clarifying!

Any clarification on skull of impending doom and MQG (if it will be available to blackrock, or not allowed in arena) I think are the two biggest things left at this point as we wait for PTR to begin so we can help out there.

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I will have an answer for you in the upcoming days regarding MQG and skull

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Originally Posted by Malaco

We can include it in the magtheridon gear crate but with a 4% droprate so it would simulate a roll.



I will have an answer for you in the upcoming days regarding MQG and skull

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Thank you! Small thing, but just an idea. I would request around 10% for mag head though to simulate a more realistic % for season 1. Week 8 it would be pretty unlikely to be rolling against 24 people for mag head at that point.

Either way, glad it's included.

I think some anti bad luck system could be nice too. Like if u really want or need a item maybe you can get it by some kind of emblems droped in crates too? In case your getting week after week cloth gear being a warrior or smething like that. Could be high prices but since we are going to have random drops.. randomness usually is not good pvp wise I have seen a lot of drama whit boxes on retail when they dropped things with random stats etc.

Also there is any chance of being able to crossplay with onyxia teamates? Out of soloq? I mean invite someone to your party or its non doable?

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Originally Posted by jikzyo

If it gonna be easy to finish weekly quests for gear crates blackrock gonna be much better server for every pvp player

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It could be easier than doing raids but it could also be significant harder.
For expl, if the quests require a certain arena rating it could be much harder to achieve such rating than killing a easy boss in a raid.
In general achieving a high arena rating requires more skill than raiding. I guess we all can agree on that.

Any plan how ppl gonna acquire https://wotlk.cavernoftime.com/item=28441 on Blackrock?
On Onyxia it just gonna be a long gold grind to get it but no player skill involved. So I guess would make sense to make it available for lots of honor and emblems on Blackrock but no rating requirements.

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Originally Posted by Malaco

Hello everyone,

FAQ
- Raiders on Onyxia will have a shot at every boss for loot. Will something similar be implemented for Blackrock as well?
Yes. The idea is to create a weekly questline so you need to "kill all bosses" in order to progress through the quests.
Therefor limiting one boss per week as on Onyxia.
As for heroic gear (mid tier) it will also be obtainable through quests but not as challenging as the raid ones

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Wait, on blackrock we can only get 1 raid item per week AND its rng ???

The gearing is meant to work at a similar pace to regular Onyxia players doing PvE, just achieved through PvP instead of dungeons and raids, yes. The advantage of playing on Blackrock in this cross-server should mainly be the strict focus on PvP, not getting stuff free of hassle and fast.

Will the Blackrock server also get an item store similar to Onyxia including the Classic items such as MQG and obviously the TBC items at some point? Would be awesome if that would be a possibility too.

Also would about reputations? For example on a priest or resto druid I would love to have the exalted violet hold reputation ring from Karazhan, would it be possible to emulate reputation gains on Blackrock equal to Onyxia? For example 10 reputation per arena game or battleground played to get exalted reputation in X weeks as you would on Onyxia.