Well, this is certainly an innovative solution. Tonight the Black Temple opened on the test realms. However, Blizz seems to have realized that most people would not be sufficiently geared to test it out. So what did they do? Gave everyone free Tier 5 gear! That's right, if you go to the Terrace of Light (or the banks, or the inns) in Shattrath on the test realms, there is an NPC named Johnny McWeaksauce handing out free boxes full of T5 tokens and comparable items to fill the other slots, along with Black Temple keys.There's a slight catch: you need to be honored with the Violet Eye. Basically, this means Blizzard is selecting for people with some experience raiding Karazhan. You don't need that much raiding experience, though -- I got Honored clearing through Curator twice. Also, as you might expect, seemingly every single character on the PTR is either at McWeaksauce or the T5 vendors, resulting in horrendous lag and mountains of "This item is busy" errors. In fact, at this time, I still haven't managed to get my actual T5 -- it took a couple minutes of spam-clicking just to get the box of tokens. They tried to fix it by replicating Jimmy many times, but the bottleneck now is the T5 vendors. There's a few more of them, but not near enough.
Anyway, if you're Honored or above with the Violet Eye and want to see what it's like to have phat epics, log on and try it out! Or, to save much frustration, wait a day or so. And here's a few tips:
- If you want cash for your epic mount or whatever on the PTR, you can grab some boxes of gear from Johnny and just vendor the gear. Free boxes of epics + epics sell for cash = profit.
- If you're an off-spec (Shadow Priest, Feral Druid), you can grab the box for your class to get the T5 gear and then pick an appropriate other class to get their box for gear for other slots. (Shadow Priests, for instance: grab a Priest box and a Warlock or Mage box.)
- There aren't any vendors for enchants or high-quality gems.
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4-16-2007 @ 10:57PM
Mike Schramm said...
No wonder you only have 147g man, you're selling Soul Essences to vendors!! That's crazy talk!
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4-16-2007 @ 11:07PM
Eliah Hecht said...
Hehe, I have little use for Soul Essences on the PTR. I only have 147g cos I spent all my gold grinding up my tailoring and buying Primal Mooncloth to make my PM robe and shoulders :D
Oh, and I was vendoring random stuff to make some bag space to unpack my lewtz.
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4-16-2007 @ 11:28PM
Krazdendune said...
Um the gold that you make in the ptr does that carry over when the patch goes live or is it just fake gold.
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4-16-2007 @ 11:30PM
brian said...
pure fakeness
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4-16-2007 @ 11:36PM
Gill said...
I'd love to try this out for my only level 70 (hunter). Too bad I've never seen the inside of Karazhan (and as a Hunter, I probably will never get to it).
Oh well, back to checking out the cheaper PvP gear =)
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4-16-2007 @ 11:38PM
Eliah Hecht said...
Yeah, none of this, like anything you do on the PTRs, will carry back over to the live realms.
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4-16-2007 @ 11:59PM
Lostmimic said...
Was not very impressed with T5 :(
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4-17-2007 @ 4:23AM
Twinny said...
@5 why wouldn't hunters get into karazhan?
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4-17-2007 @ 4:55AM
Jones said...
Yeah I was wondering that too, hunters are really useful in there
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4-17-2007 @ 7:11AM
BaboonNL said...
Yay for freezing traps between priests and Moroes' adds.
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4-17-2007 @ 7:42AM
Synik said...
More than likely because more people are used to dealing with AFKshot Huntards. I'm lucky enough to have excellent Hunters in my Guild who are a real asset to every group they end up in. If you think Hunters are a useless class for raids then I'd recommend you boot your current ones and get new ones in.
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4-17-2007 @ 8:30AM
Twinny said...
my guilds hunter is invaluable. he saves so many wipes with quick traps. but hes 1 in 100,000,000,000*.
*50,967,124,673 are named légóláz
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4-17-2007 @ 9:38AM
Jenet said...
We had a karazhan run threatening to leave the station with 4 hunters last night.
I for one welcome our new hunter overlords.
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4-17-2007 @ 9:59AM
HiWay said...
@13
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4-17-2007 @ 10:21AM
Dave said...
no enchant/gem vendors of good quality = fail.
My non-gemmed T5 set is WORSE than my gemmed and enchanted set of kara-quality gear.
This game is doomed with itemization like that. Utterly, doomed. Marginal but "kinda okay i guess" upgrades are not what people want. I sure know I'm underwhelmed. Yeah, it'll be better than what I have when I get it all tricked out, but uh... it's a test realm and I'm not spending a week farming for mats to enchant test gear. Oh well!
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4-17-2007 @ 10:45AM
Jenet said...
@14
I'm not sure what /. is...
so I reply with:
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4-17-2007 @ 10:53AM
Flolah said...
The easiest thing to do would be to get your crafting friends who aren't going to actually play on the PTR to transfer over and loan you the mats/gems, or convince the guild bank owner to transfer over three copies if they're also not going to be playing.
I managed to transfer over my main - and had my last transfer still present - which basically has me loaded with enchanting materials.
The gem situation, though, sucks... but it's pretty easy to do the math on what you're missing. I am highly impressed with my mitigation in the Paladin Tier 5 tanking set, and I know that properly decked out, I would be awesome.
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4-17-2007 @ 10:54AM
TheTreasoner said...
Slightly (more than, depending) disappointed with the choice of tank boots and bracers. Not like its going to make or break things, but why Eaglecrest instead of Elusion, and why whatever bracers were in there (can't remember) over Green Fortress? Encouraging hybrid builds perhaps? If I want +str on either of those, well, I can put +agi on the boots at least, but I can do +12 str in a matter of a few arcane dust.
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4-18-2007 @ 7:30AM
Kyoko - EU Terenas said...
Thing that bugs me is that there are NO 1-handed swords for a rogue...
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4-18-2007 @ 3:41PM
nekranomakon said...
lol T5 doesnt impress me tbh id rather work for the rest of my set and work through rest of instances (working with nihilum) i will definetly acheive that :) thx oh and we have 4 hunters and 2 are in each of our kara grps :)
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