Possibly alot of new gear come MOP with dynamic quest rewards

[shanker]

ever done a quest like A Blight Upon the Land - Quest - World of Warcraft, you are a warrior.

or have mage and the reward is a shield, leather belt, or etc. unuseable item?

saw this on mmo-champ, it appears you will have a useable item every quest. this could mean a redo and new quest rewards. not clear whether this will be for low level panda and 85+ only though

Mists of Pandaria Dynamic Quest Rewards
One of the interesting change made to leveling in the expansion is the quest rewards. In Mists of Pandaria, quests no longer have predetermined rewards and they have been replaced with dynamic rewards depending on which class you're playing.

this may mean new BIS gear, and could be a issue for players who have completed all quests at their level, unless blizz treats the quests as new like CATA did

 

[Deadvulcano]

Re: Possibly alot fo new gear come MOP with dynamic quest rewards

I was looking at this yesterday but noticed that they also discuss some of the problems. Namely that because the system selects "random" items for you based on class and spec you cannot get any offspec items.

Their solution is that offset items can be picked up from vendors in the new zones. They are also going back to a non-linear zone and questing experience. No doubt that this is for world pvp purposes.

I don't think they'll do these dynamic rewards for lower levels considering two things. First, they just redid all the 1-60 zones and quests. Second, doing so would take work that is not directly related to their target audience. If the MoP Beta wasn't already live this would make sense. But right now it seems they are in crunch time for a release. (GW2 inc, and normal Beta->Release timeframes)

Hmm, although an easy implementation could be to give ilvl and spec appropriate items instead of satchel loot for random dungeon rewards (all slots.) Would be very easy/fast to implement and could nearly completely even out gear imbalance... hmm.

No way this would happen.

 

[shanker]

yeah i can see what you are saying being a issue, a situation where a ret-pal does a quest to get a int/stam shield for a second spec, but it would not be offered as a reward due to the spec

 

[shanker]

just saw this on mmo-champion

New Quest Reward System
Offering quest rewards this way is a change for us, and the kind of thing for which we could definitely use feedback.

For the players that level as X spec but want to also collect gear as Y spec, we have a few solutions:

• Several of the zones have vendors with decent gear that isn't quite at the quest item level. These help provide coverage if you miss a reward, say gloves or shoulders, since questing is less linear now. However, these vendors also help you gather off-spec gear.
• Several quests, especially those that offer blue rewards, weapons, trinkets and most of the level 90 quests, offer you a choice of gear for all of your specs instead of just your current spec.
• Because the questing in zones isn't as linear as Cataclysm, and because there are two zones per level in some cases, you'll have the option to hit some quests as spec A and some quests as spec B.
• There are still other sources of gear, such as crafting, the AH, dungeons, faction rep and so on.