by Magistrate - 10 years ago     show comments

WatcherDev confirmed that raid tier gear tokens will no longer require players to turn them in at a vendor for their relevant items. Similar to gear tokens acquired on the Timeless Isle, Warlords of Draenor raid tier gear will be attainable “on the spot”:

@RhoWoW @MeaganTC They will work that way in Warlords. No more vendors – you can get your set piece on the spot.

— Ion Hazzikostas (@WatcherDev) September 1, 2014

It is unclear whether these tokens will be broken up only according to class for the current tier or behave more like Timeless Isle tokens. Before token usage, Timeless Isle gear is known only by its armor type–upon usage, the token is then converted randomly into a class-specific item of the represented slot. However, since that would really make acquiring raid loot drops (and possibly trading them with your raid buddies) a pain, it seems highly unlikely that this would be the case.

So, say goodbye to googling where the heck those turn-in vendors are every time you get a new raid piece and gear with pride. But not too much pride–we don’t need a certain Sha to return anytime soon.