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Blackrock Foundry Item Level Increase

by - 9 years ago

UPDATE: Per the Warcraft developer Twitter account this update is now live in all regions except the EU. The fix for this region will be deployed later today during their off-peak hours.

Bashiok just made a very interesting post on the forums about an upcoming change to the item level of gear dropping from Blackrock Foundry.

All items which drop out of Blackrock Foundry (including those which have already dropped) will have their item levels adjusted upward 5 points. This is to further separate the item level difference between the Foundry and Highmaul, which should make killing bosses in the Foundry feel more rewarding.

Apexis Crystal vendor items and the additional tier of crafted gear released with patch 6.1 will also receive this increase to keep it relative to the Foundry items.

We are preparing to deploy a hotfix next week that will increase the item level of all raid drops from all difficulties of the Blackrock Foundry raid.

The main purpose of this change is to ensure that killing new bosses in the Blackrock Foundry raid feels appropriately rewarding. We are finding that groups coming out of a couple of months in Highmaul could often have an average item level that was just barely shy of the loot dropped by the appropriate difficulty in Foundry. A core part of the experience of progressing through a new raid tier lies in the sense that even if you didn’t manage to kill a particular boss this week, the upgrades your raid group gathered along the way will make things smoother and improve your chances the following week.

This change will be retroactive, affecting existing items that players may have in their possession. Thus, instead of an item level range of 650/665/680/695 for Raid Finder/Normal/Heroic/Mythic Foundry, the loot awarded will now be item level 655/670/685/700 respectively. At the same time, we will be increasing the item level of the new highest-tier crafted and Apexis vendor items by 5, in order to keep their power unchanged relative to the Foundry raid itemization.

To see the original post from Bashiok check out his post on the forums and let us know how you feel about this change or how it will impact your raid group in the comments below.


Timothy Prine

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0 responses to “Blackrock Foundry Item Level Increase”

  1. Timothy Prine says:

    I think this is a really good change. It provides incentive to keep working on BRF to get the higher item level gear, provides a better reward for sticking it out and killing bosses, and gives the raid overall a slight nerf for those who have received pieces out of there already.