WoW News: T10 Armor Set from Emblems and T10.5 from Tokens?

Well, well, well… What have we here?

In a Q&A session Blizzard has revealed T10 and T10.5 armor set pieces will be available from a mixture of Emblems of Frost and Tokens.

• T10 armor set pieces will be available from Emblems of Frost similar to the T9 set and Emblems of Triumph.
• T10.5 will only be available from Tokens from the 25-man raid similar to the T8 Tokens from Ulduar.

Here’s the actual quote from Aratil:

“With T10, are we going to see tokens like in Ulduar? or like Crusaders’ Coliseum? CC style had every class and spec rolling on same thing?

With T10 we’re going to see a hybrid. The Tier 10 items (the ones with item levels you’d find in the 10-player raid) will be purchased with Emblems of Frost.

The Tier-10.5 items (the ones with item levels you’d find in the 25-player raid) will be obtained by getting a token (one that is specific to 3 or 4 classes, much like the Ulduar tokens) and using it to upgrade the Tier-10 item that was purchased with Emblems of Frost.”

This is one way of dealing with the “everyone wants the Trophies of the Crusade” issue we have with ToTC 25-man. Sounds like a good idea to me.

So it looks like we will simply pick up the Tier-10 gear from Emblems to get into Icecrown 25-man. Once in Icecrown we’ll pick up Tokens (and no Emblems) to upgrade our set to the 25-man level armor. This would be very nice… It would certainly save us having to farm loads of Emblems.

If only they thought of this with the T9 and T9.5 armor sets!

As far as I can see this is the only drawback going down the T9 armor set and upgrading to T9.5 route:

You’ve farmed 160 Emblems of Triumph to get your T9 armor to get into 25-man raids (assuming you get the cheapest 4 pieces in order to get the set bonus).

You get into Trials of the Crusade 25-mans and pick up Trophies of the Crusade. Now you have to farm another 240 Emblems in order to upgrade to the T9.5 set.

What if you had 4 pieces of T9 and only had to use the Trophy to upgrade it to the T9.5 set? Although you wouldn’t need Emblems anymore you would still be running the 25-man raid anyhow for the other items (weapons, belt, boots, etc).

What do YOU think?

p.p.s. The Rogue T10 set stats have just been revealed (on 12th November 2009). Go check it out.