wow Blue Posts: Gold Transfer Cap and Epic Battle Pet Stones

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It looks like the blues have been busy with yet another reverted change, this time caused by a bug when transferring with the new increased transfer cap. It looks like there are also going to be changes to the planned epic pet stones in Legion. Check it out and make sure you're up-to-date!

 

The first time that players heard about an increase to the gold transfer cap, there was the sound of sheer joy at finally being able to transfer more than 50,000 gold with a level 100 character. With the incredible levels of inflation that Warlords of Draenor brought, this simply wasn't a high enough cap for max level characters. 

 

The cap was intended to be raised to 250k, however technical issues with the service meant that the change ended up being reversed straight back to 50k until they can fix the problems. This was confirmed in a post by Vaegrinn over on the US forums.

 

Vaegrinn on Gold Transfer Cap

 

That's correct. Apologies, I should have been more clear. There were some issues with the transfer limit when it was first being implemented. Because of those issues, it has been reverted back down to 50k. 

 

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In other news, it looks like there will be no epic battle stones coming in Legion, such as Immaculate Battle-Stone. Through an extremely long process of feedback, the developers have since decided that the community feels that the battle stones should not be introduced in Legion, due to the extreme effect they will have on the pet levelling process. Players that have farmed up so many pets to rare will now have the daunting task of farming everything up to epic as well. You can read more about the changes below in a post by Kaivax on the US forums.

 

Kaivax on Epic Battle Stones

 

Hi everyone!

 

First and foremost, thank you very much for testing pet battles in the Legion Alpha. We’ve heard your concerns and have decided not to move forward with epic pet battle stones in Legion.

 

To explain a bit about how we arrived at this point--

 

When designing rewards for the new battle pet features in Legion and the revamped pet store in Dalaran, we considered epic stones a potential direction to go. Some players are nearing the cap of max-level, all-rare pet teams, and we wanted to see if this space would satisfy their needs for a long-term future level of investment. 

 

You have correctly identified a few of the issues that come up with this feature:

New players now have a harder time catching up (though we could mitigate this by speeding up the early leveling process).

Players with 600+ rare pets that felt as if they were nearing completion of their pet journal are back to having 600+ pets to level.

Power Creep – older content is now easier, future content is harder for new players entering pet battles.

 

 

One of the things we like about pet battles is that much of the early content stays relevant through all of the expansions. Similarly, the collection aspect of battle pets works well when it’s wider (more pets to collect, more variety in abilities) rather than taller (more levels). Both of these are very good reasons to avoid adding epic pet stones.

 

This direction also pushes us to create content that tests max-level-pet-battlers in a way that is not purely numbers, but use of abilities, use of specific pets, and memorization of enemy strategies. The Celestial Tournament was a good example of pet battle content that rewarded a varied and filled pet stable. We have some exciting things in mind for future battles versus tamers!

 

It’s worth noting that this feature was not intended to replace any gameplay content. We’re working on all sorts of pet battle updates that we’d like to make in future patches. 

 

Thanks again for all of your feedback. We really appreciate your great ideas and discussion!

 

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