Content available at release

[Armilus]

Sounds to me like items added to world bosses and pre-raid instances in 1.4 will be available but items added to MC in 1.4 will not.

pretty much, and pre 1.4 is when t1 and t2 dropped in MC. all the pieces. shame that wont be available so Nos will be actually harder than it was in 2005. only t1 old sets?

With 1.12 talents and 10 years greater understanding of the game mechanics I think we make up for the lack of very rare t2 drops in MC

MC just won't be a complete joke anymore. I'm sure it will still be cleared fairly quickly.

[Keftenk]

Most of everything will.

[Hammerfall]

YES.

That is all.

[Noxx]

Love this!!!!

[Death]

This is going to be so awesome!

[Stormreaver]

8 more days, and on the 9-th, we go hard or go home.

[kovenant]

might be just me, but as far as i know only T1 dropped in MC with the exception of the t2 legs from raggy.
for tier 2 you had to go through BWL.
was this changed later on? did i really miss that since we stopped raiding MC by that time.

for me this change is awesome!
more wipe fests in Stratholm and Scholomance / UBRS due to unprepared groups, bad geared users and lack of knowledge.
when i was t2/t3 geared strat was doable with 2 people (a pala's) it was no longer fun to do..
and even lvling is harder, funny to read the messages of 2004/ 2005 and 10 years later.
20 days played to reach lvl 60 was quite common, now its 2 - 3 days to reach 60.

[Acid]

now its 2 - 3 days to reach 60.

Not quite.

[kovenant]

now its 2 - 3 days to reach 60.

Not quite.

even faster?
i'm talking about retail eh
its only about what i read online, so not quite is not really an answer ists an empty comment.

[Netherfrost]

As far as the armor reduction discussion goes; what might confuse Hatson (just a wild guess) is that faerie fire doesnt stack with the known puncture armor weapons - these are annihilator, bashguuder, and rivenspike. Most bosses have an average of 4691 Armor, and a reduction of 200 armor is straight up 2,5% less damage loss, or 3,1% more melee damage(no, the dmg gain from armor reduction is not linear). Regarding the debuffslots, there should never, at the 8 limit, be any personal debuffs, the personal ones are ranked in 1) SW:P 2) Corruption 3) Rest of the bad dots which you should never have on(even at 16 limit). At the 16 limit you usually have enough slots for both the single SW:P and a slot for each warlock.