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Class Accessories? – Speculation

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***PLEASE NOTE THIS COLUMN IS BASED ON SPECULATION AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS CONFIRMATION OF ANYTHING***

So I was doing a little poking around on the PTR tonight (along with a few thousand other people) and came across something interesting in the loot tables for the raid journal.

Archimonde (the final boss of the Hellfire Citadel raid) drops a class specific trinket for each class. The description text for this item reads “Equip: Grants a powerful effect based on your specialization.”

To understand where I think (and a small part of me hopes) this is going, we have to go back to an Artcraft blog from May of 2014 which can be found here. In the blog post, Chris G. Robinson (Senior Art Director for World of Warcraft) details a concept the team has been working on for class accessories.

The art team was working on a symbolic representation of each class (Librams for Paladins, Totems for Shaman, Quivers for Hunters, etc) which could be added to make your class feel more distinct, and to add an extra layer of visual customization.

Given that the trinkets on the loot table are class specific and that they swap stats depending on the specialization of your character (meaning you would not need to receive multiple of them to keep a particular look when changing specs) I have to wonder if we are about to see these class flavor items come to fruition. We could also see multiple iterations of these items as the art team demonstrated in the first Warlords raid tier that they would like each set of raid tier armor (Normal, Heroic, and Mythic) to be visually different from the preceding difficulty.

At the time of the blog post, Chris made it very clear that the items were still in early design phases and that “getting them into the game will likely need to wait until after you’ve faced off against the Iron Horde”.

Speculation is heavy that this could be the second raid tier of a two-tier expansion, which means we are nearing the end of the Iron Horde and the point where these items could potentially be ready to be added.

Chris, the ball is in your court sir.


Timothy Prine

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