They were never catch-up items (they were improvements to the design of crafting professions and to help provide an edge to those that were *stuck* on non-current content, which is no longer the case even for casual guilds), and following the schedule you had planned won't make them viable catch-up gear either.
The raiding community could largely be split into two to explain this:
A) Those that don't need them and can skip them, and...
B) Those that could use the extra edge; but these raiders won't have the time to go back and hunt for singular upgrades for half of the raid while they could be working their way through current content with larger rewards waiting *for everyone*. Had the content been a LOT harder, and players were literally stuck and unable to progress into BT, then you'd have a point, but with the nerfs applied it's not the case even for the most unorganized of us (pugs will also clear BT).
While I wouldn't mirror his attitude, he's right about it being very poor design to release profession content at a time it simultaneously becomes obsolete.
View Poll Results: Do you support adding WoW Classic item progression changes to Onyxia?
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Yes! Items should be available earlier.
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No! Keep it original.
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I hit the wrong button... what I wrote above is in response to this.
And I could've also mentioned the flawed design that Blizzard improved upon (using the knowledge of hindsight after observing how the content was received and utilized) such as casters getting an alternative to using an agility meta gem, and spell hit being an early-game issue for everyone which was fixed with spell hit gems. The factions also provide the solo player with more content to do, and in general players enjoy better itemization and more customization which the crafted pieces allow for besides making the in-game economy to thrive (off which you profit through gold/coin trading on this website).
Ps. People without at least a level 60 on Onyxia shouldn't be able to vote on this poll.
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SO when can we expect this?
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Yeah its completely botched.... Like they have Veiled Noble and the spell crit meta listed in "phase 1" yet neither are in the game yet. I don't think they even know whats in/out of their game. Weird.
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When will the change go in effect?
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The vote's over, what are the results? What's in and what's out?
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Yeah, are the changes gonna be implemented or not?
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you are talking so much ****, its a wonder you werent banned yet. stop acting like an entitled brat, its a private server - if you dont like it, **** off with that "this is not what i did not pay for" attitude
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Doesn't matter if we paid for it or not. We invest our time into the server and expect them to care about what their players want. Most of us have paid for it through donations as well so that is an stupid argument.
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Maybe original better
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they do care, hence the vote.
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why are u so angry. He is right, veiled noble is in the phase 1 list while it's actually not in the game.
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https://www.wowhead.com/item=31867/veiled-nightseye
Added in patch 2.1.0 "The Black Temple"
even in comments you can see "By Johnny (540 – 1·6) on 2007/05/28 (Patch 2.1.0)
New rare gems with 2.1:"
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Give some info please
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Salty leatherworkers and blacksmithers gonna seethe because they will lose their revelance exclusivity, Because most of people were based and voted yes.
