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Badges of Justice: I love them. It's brilliant that you can go to a raid, down a boss, and have everyone walk away with a piece of an epic (albeit a fairly small piece). It really cuts back on the angst of not having what you want drop, as well as giving Blizzard a way to provide for uncommon specs without too much loot table bloat. And with the relatively recent system that has all raid bosses dropping badges, and some pretty great new badge rewards, the system is now quite strong. However, in my view, they do have one defect: they're soulbound. Now there's a strong argument to be put for the concept that if a character can't do a raid, they shouldn't get the reward. And I certainly agree that badges should not be salable on the AH. However, I do think we should be able to send them between alts. I have one character who needs very little in the way of badge gear, and correspondingly rakes in badges like nobody's business by tearing through Karazhan. My character that really needs the gear is typically not taken on raids, or not "A-group" raids anyway. It would be nice to be able to send all my badges over to that toon to get an undergeared character geared up, without being able to give them to just anybody on the AH.
Lich King set to introduce "Legacy Items" to World of Warcraft
Last week's explosion of news about Blizzard's in-development Wrath of the Lich King expansion revealed a number of interesting design choices. Overall, the company seems to be refocusing World of Warcraft to a more casual-friendly experience. 5- and 10- man instances will be the main thrust of the endgame, Death Knights offer a viable "leg up" for players wanting to quest with their friends on other servers, and possible plans to offer interesting extensions of the recruit-a-friend service.In an interview with TenTonHammer, Jeff Kaplan and Tom Chilton have revealed that another element will aid this design direction. Certain high level encounters may provide characters with so-called "Legacy Items". These items (weapons and armor, we assume) will bind to your player account - not to your specific character. The items can then transfer between different characters on your account, via the in-game mail system. Intriguingly, it sounds as if there will be no level restriction on this amazing loot. Said Kaplan, "They're deliberately created as twink items ... so you can be deliberately overpowered for a low level character to help level up or whatever." Make sure to check out the interview for more on the company's design intentions, hints at a "Kick off to Northrend" world event, and more reassurances that the Death Knight won't break the game.
