Recently, the wowhead website has unearthed a large amount of data for the third phase of the World of Warcraft WLK Classic Server. Judging from the excavation, players' expectation of obtaining 10-man difficulty Ulduar equipment directly from the 5-man dungeon may become a luxury.
Why do you say this? Because the difficulty increase in the 5M version is too small, after the player turns on the M difficulty, the monster's health increase (compared to the 5H difficulty) increases from 100% in P2 to 140%, and the monster's damage ability increases from 30% to 140%. 40%.
Obviously, compared to the P2 stage, the Titan Rune Dungeon (5M difficulty) in the P3 stage only increases the damage by 5% and the health value by 20%, and the overall difficulty increase is only about 10%.
Such a little increase in difficulty is the same as nothing. Novice players in P3 can easily get a set of initial equipment worth 220~230 (PS: even if they just go to AH to buy BOE at full level), players with this kind of equipment will not be able to play in the M version and lunch version of P3 difficulty. any difference.
Therefore, Blizzard will definitely not put too good dropped equipment into the 5M book. Xiaotan estimates that it will only put the 225 equipment dropped by 10-man Ulduar, while the tail king will drop low-level T8.
Blizzard originally planned to enhance the appeal of Ulduar and allow more players to experience this classic dungeon. Therefore, the most anticipated equipment for ordinary players who cannot play H difficulty: a large number of 239~245 equipment dropped in 10H with a high probability. Put it in the drop list of 25-player normal Ulduar, and 10-player difficulty Ulduar will drop 25-player difficulty Ulduar equipment respectively. As for the 25-player H difficulty, the drop of 252~258 equipment will be greatly increased. In terms of quantity, Xiao Tan will probably add 2 to the quantity like NAXX.
We can use a simple list to clarify this drop relationship:
5M book: Drop the original 10 ordinary Ulduar 225 equipment and low-level T8.
10-player Ordinary Ulduar: Drops the original 10H Ulduar equipment.
10-player difficulty Ulduar: In addition to the previous drops, each BOSS drops an additional piece of 252 equipment.
25-player Ordinary Ulduar: Each BOSS drops an additional piece of 252 equipment.
25-player difficulty Ulduar: Each BOSS drops an additional 3 pieces of 252 equipment.
If Blizzard adopts this plan, even in P3, there will still be a large number of players continuing to fight in Ulduar, which is also in line with the original design intention of Blizzard designers.
Of course, after adopting this plan, everyone will no longer be able to obtain powerful 239 accessories (such as Thunder God Runestones) and many 245 weapons in 5-player dungeons. If you want good equipment, you have to play the Ulduar raid.