I got my gun tonight. After weeks of grinding CP I’m finally again able to make use of my dwarven racial bonus.
Below is the imaginary conversation I’ve had with Blizzard about guns spanning the last few tiers.
Tier 10
- Blizzard: “No guns will drop in 25man, sorry.”
- Eidotrope: “Oh, um, okay. There’s that heroic 10man gun, though, which is as good as the 25normal bow.”
- Blizzard: “Yeah, but we’re making the heroic 25man bow easier to get to and better for your dps. And the Lich King will drop a crossbow, so . . .”
- Eidotrope: “Ah, well, that’s cool, maybe I’ll get to use my racial next tier then.”
Tier 11
- Blizzard: “No guns at all this tier. There’ll be crossbows and bows in normal and heroic modes again, though.”
- Eidotrope: “Bummer. Well, I’ll just go get the pvp gun then. My racial outweighs the stat loss to resilience, making it bis for pve for me.”
Tier 12
- Blizzard: “Hey, we’re adding a gun this tier and making it very easy to obtain.”
- Eidotrope: “Awesome!”
- Blizzard: “Psych! We’re turning it into another crossbow. Firelands needed a second crossbow very much. But we’re going to leave the gun noise on the crossbow so that you are reminded of what could have been.”
- Eidtrope: “It’s back to pvp guns again I guess.”
- Blizzard: “Um, about that. We didn’t like how you got your pvp weapon in a reasonble amount of time last tier, so we’re requiring you to earn 7800 CP before you can buy the 3400 CP gun.”
- Eidotrope: “Ugh. That’ll take five or six weeks of grinding for a casual pvper like me.”
- Blizzard: “Yup.”
That’s what it has felt like at least.
-Eidotrope
12 tiers without a Tauren/Orc/Belf/Nelf/Draenei/Goblin/Undead/Human/Worgen ranged weapon!
Our conversations with Blizz so far:
Me: “”
Blizz: “”
We’re clearly too busy getting on with things to care…
GZ Eid. Have you checked your gun goes bang? One final twist of the screw would be for it to look like a gun and sound like a bow.
While I feel bad that a lot of hunters who wouldn’t normally do this are having to work a lot harder to get their gun, I really do approve of the amount of hunter on non-hunter violence this has caused.