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——Sargeras
With the full opening of Icecrown Citadel, plate-wearing classes are about to receive their ultimate weapon—Shadowmourne. To adapt to the unique environment of the nostalgia server, Blizzard has made three major optimizations to the crafting process of this legendary weapon, reducing the crafting time from the original 3-4 months to about 1 month. Here’s a detailed analysis:
Class Compatibility AnalysisFury Warriors and Retribution Paladins: After obtaining the orange axe, their damage output undergoes a qualitative change, firmly placing them in the top tier and making them core damage dealers in teams.Death Knights: Due to their overall weaker performance in the ICC version, the benefits of the orange axe are relatively limited, and the improvement is not as significant as for other classes.Review of the Original Quest ProcessIn the original version, players needed to complete a series of complex quests:Holy and Fallen: Raise the Ashen Verdict reputation to Friendly and collect materials (Blood of Corrupted Flesh and Rotting Gut, as well as 25 pieces of Primordial Saronite) through 25-man ICC to forge Shadow’s Edge.
Feast of Souls: After equipping Shadow’s Edge, you need to kill 1000 undead monsters in ICC.Orange Axe Trilogy: Complete the infusion quests for Professor, Blood Queen, and Sindragosa in 25-man ICC.Splintered Throne: Collect 50 Shadow Frost Shards (only drops when the raid quest is active).
The entire process was time-consuming and highly dependent on team composition and quest progress.Nostalgia Server Optimization InnovationsTo lower the entry barrier, Blizzard has implemented three optimizations to the orange axe crafting process:
1. Fragment Acquisition Mechanism InnovationRemoval of raid quest restrictions: All players can freely pick up Shadow Frost Shards without needing the raid quest to be active.Increased drop rate: Normal and Heroic difficulty bosses now have a 67% chance to drop Shadow Frost Shards (originally exclusive to Heroic difficulty).Fixed drops from key bosses: Each kill of Saurfang, Blood Queen, Professor, Sindragosa, and the Lich King guarantees 1 Shadow Frost Shard drop.2. Material Acquisition ShortcutsPrimordial Saronite can be exchanged for Frost Emblems or purchased using the newly added currency from the “Gamma Protocol”, greatly simplifying the material collection process.3. Efficiency CalculationWeekly average yield: Players who clear the raid can reliably obtain 4 shards (fixed drop from the final boss) + 1 shard (quest reward) + approximately 6.7 shards (other boss drops), totaling about 11.7 shards per week.Graduation cycle: It takes as little as 5 weeks to collect 50 Shadow Frost Shards while completing other quests.
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