Account Wide Storage

Friday! It's all about the Reader Post people. Who cares if it is the day before the weekend. Who cares if you got something amazing planned. It is time for the Reader Post. The post of the week where it is all made up of your opinions. This week I wanted to know what you all thought of the shared stash and the gold stash in Diablo III and if it would be welcomed in WoW. So let's see what everyone had to say.

I think they are already implementing it with the Void Storage in some respects. They are testing it out to see how it works and go from there. They just have to figure out a way to make it not work cross faction and deal with soul bound items. Everyone knows even Blizzard that the mailbox is used for storing items doing something like this would put a lot less strain on the system.

Looks like a great idea as long as it doesn't result in items not becoming soul bound. I think this would really take away form the game especially if you put tier gear and some how a drop you got on your hunter can now be worn by your priest because the drop belongs to your account.

I think it would be really dumb. Imagine starting a character off and already having access to all your gold Horde or Alliance. It would make the game extremely unbalanced and something I don't think a lot of people will stand for.

This would be the best idea they ever came up with. Everyone knows we get around this already with the neutral auction house and the mailbox. Why not just remove that step. It is not like people will stop doing it, and Blizzard allows this to happen. Just put it in and be done with it.

As long as they make it a Horde and Alliance separate storage I am all for it. I am also not against an item being account bound and not soul bound. If you are there for a drop then it is the players drop not the class that was there for it. Blizzard has stated it is all about the specific player and not the class they are playing so it is simple do away with soul bound and just make everything account bound.

There you have it that is it for this week. Thank you to everyone for submitting your responses they are very much appreciated. As always if you are interested in taking part in next week's Reader Post make sure to check out Sunday's Ask Gauss post for the topic. Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Huge News

So in case you didn't know. Over in Germany at Gamescom they made some huge announcements about patch 4.3. So if you don't know what they said you better sit down and prepare yourself.

Cosmetic armor skins

Yes it is true. You may remember I did a post awhile back (found here). This is actually coming true in some form. You will be able to change the appearance of your character with different armor sets. So you will be able to wear your favourite tier set. Instead of the one you are forced to wear with current content. The implementation of this is not detailed, but putting it in with any implementation is something the WoW community has been waiting for, for a long time.

An armor closet to store old gear, freeing up bank space

All I can say is FINALLY. Coming from someone who keeps everything and never wants to get rid of anything, including every tabard I have ever owned. This is something that should have been added to the game a long time ago. Better late then never though. I swear the programmers who finally got this put into the game should all be patting themselves on the back.


Deathwing's raid and three new 5-man dungeons

This is probably the biggest surprise. Deathwing in 4.3! Remember that 4.1 wasn't really a raid tier so this compared to past expansions means the big baddy in the second raiding tier patch. Also it has been stated that one of the 5 mans at least is a CoT instance. Is this the War of the Ancients that everyone has been waiting for? I really hope not was really wanting it to be a raid. On another note does this point to a Sunwell type tier following this? Where we will come face to face with N'Zoth? Only time will tell.

One thing I want to point out is the Star Wars MMO is in place for coming out for the holiday season. Is Blizzard pulling out all the stops in 4.3 to make that games impact the least possible to their player base? It seems to think they are heading that way. Also with Deathwing coming I really think without a question we will get an offical expansion announcement at BlizzCon.

So I know it is a lot to take in, but it is all true so it is ok to be pumped.