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Originally Posted by Man0warr
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Green scales drop off Hoshkar eventually, not sure if it was this patch or later.
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I believe you that they did this, but doesn't that strike anyone else as weird?
One of the things that I think is fun in the game is trying to figure out what motivated the developers to do things the way they did things.
UDB, Fay and VSR changes were unambiguously designed to increase the ability of family/casual guilds to finish epics in the traditional go-out-and-slay-the-dragon way. Epics were not "uber loot", they were long personal quests that were seen as a rite of passage/culmination of the individual efforts that players--at least they were viewed this way once Velious came about.
So it seems weird to make changes to so many epics that make them more available to the casual-raid groups and and then leave Bard and Warrior epics essentially just as unavailable as they were before. Adding Green Scales to Hoshkar doesn't increase the availability or warrior epics to casual raiders (unless you consider buying them availability, I do not and it seems like the dev's didn't necessarily intend them to be made available in this way). So why were green scales and white scales overlooked?
I assume no original dev's have ever spoken to this particular issue, but maybe someone with better research skills (Ele?) could check?
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Originally Posted by Kileras
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white/green scales do seem a bit absurd. the urge for non classic in me is strong in regards to these. Would it really be such a huge turnoff to make them drop off a few other mobs?
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Hehe. Here is where I out myself. I've never been a "classic for the sake of classic" person
when it comes to the SYSTEMS (buff timers, colored target window, auto-stand on cast....) of the game. But in this case, when Dev intent has been so clearly documented in other epics, I would even advocate for non-classic CONTENT in the form of a nortlav-styled encounter for green and white scales in an appropriate dungeon. Maybe CT for Green Scales and some-place else for White scales. Permafrost would be the obvious choice, but having Vox in there already seems a bit redundant. Maybe a triggered no-drop scales only, non-52 capped Vox?
Rozdak Coldscorn?