No Black or Plagued Proto-Drake Rewards in 3.1
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Juggynaut on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 30 Comments Tags: Achievements, black, bornakk, glory of the hero, mmo champion, plagued, proto-drake, razorscale, rusted
Juggynaut on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 30 Comments Tags: Achievements, black, bornakk, glory of the hero, mmo champion, plagued, proto-drake, razorscale, rusted 
Bornakk, blue poster on the official forums, broke the news today that the Glory of the Raider and Heroic Glory of the Raider meta-achievements are going to have their mount rewards removed upon the implementation of Patch 3.1. While the achievements themselves will still be... achieveable, there is no longer a 310% mount rewarded for completing all of the requirements. Of course, players who have already obtained the mounts will keep them.This change will keep the extremely fast mounts limited to those who are either extremely lucky or have the dedication to complete the most difficult challenges that Blizzard sets forth to players at their intended difficulty level. The proto-drakes will be proof that a player was able to complete the achievements without having to get gear from higher tiered raids.
It is bad news for players who are more casual WoW players, but makes a lot of sense. It also falls in line with the removal of the Amani War Bear reward from the timed event in Zul'Aman when patch 3.0 went live. Patch 3.0 made many changes to player abilities and lowered the health and damage of level 70 raid bosses, making completion of the event much easier.
The silver lining is that MMO-Champion has uncovered a couple of new Proto-Drakes, Ironbound and Rusted that will be added in 3.1 and in my opinion look even cooler than the Black and Plagued ones. They will probably serve the same purpose, only for Ulduar Achievements.
What are your thoughts? I for one am in favor of this change. Now I just need to finish off those 10 man achievements!
Reader Comments (30)
Despite what people say, i agree with what blizzard is doing.
"This change will keep the extremely fast mounts limited to those who are either extremely lucky or have the dedication to complete the most difficult challenges that Blizzard sets forth to players at their intended difficulty level."
As it should be, if you want the mount, then put some effort in it!.
GUTTED, got into wotlk a little late, and now i hear this, these mounts are being removed ffs blizzard :<
a,mani was ba enuff
Holy crap people - quit your bitching - im "The Undieing" away from the plague proto, and in the run i was in yesterday some deusch died in a circle on the KT fight - first death the whole raid - yeah im pissed that i dont get the plague but thats just tough shit for me - i was also one of the only 2 to not get the ZA bear in my group - but its good that theyre removing these - it makes having them that much more special, because it was those proud few who put the time and effort into getting them - im just hoping to get one of the new Uld ones - but in the mean time stfu you stupid shits.
well i was able to obtain the plagued proto drake within a couple of weeks of hard raiding after lvl 80. i am happy to have gotten it and in the years to come u will see some of these lucky players flying there once in a life time mounts around. but i fell very bad for those who did not get the chance to even start these acheivements. it is sad that blizzard wouldent even give the players jsut hitting 80 a couple of months to even a year of wow toobtain these very hard to get mounts. although there is still the red, blue and green proto drakes that are very cool but tthey do not go the same speed as the others 310% is a big differance from 280%. well that is my bit on all this and i did miss the amani war bear guys it was huge lose that more people did get it. thanks fro reading my blog:D
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Blizzard you are fucking retards please keep the drakes in for the casual player!!!!
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