When Blizzard decides to do a gear reset, they don’t hold back. As I noted before, they’re flattening the gear ladder by dropping higher tier emblems across the board and making the newest and highest level emblem obtainable via daily dungeon quests. However, I also noted that this still maintained at least a three tier ladder of coliseum level gear, not to mention that any new epics would push one to ulduar at best. The result is that the curve remains essentially the same size it is currently. The new patch doesn’t compress the distance between top-level raid gear and bottom level from where it is now, but it doesn’t expand the range either. I felt this left a difficult gear hurdle for new players and new guild alts between 3.2 and Icecrown.
Blizzard decided to irritate people who hate welfare epics even more, though: if MMO-Champion is right, all 5 tier 9 set pieces from 10 and 25-man normal mode raids will be purchasable with the highest level emblems. Additionally, to the vast relief of raids tired of having to burn those unused set piece tokens, it appears that there will be one common token grouping of classes.
