Blizzard Reveals Specific Details on Tier Sets in Patch 9.2 - Creation Catalyst Date, Tier Tokens Returning

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Blizzard has revealed specific details on how players will acquire Tier Sets in Patch 9.2, noting when the Creation Catalyst will unlock and how they're reducing the number of drops but swapping to tier tokens. Highlights:

Too much tier was dropping on the PTR. Bosses will drop Tier Tokens instead of dropping the pieces directly. Blizzard Hi friends! I’m a Senior Game Designer on the Systems team.

I’ve been working on WoW for 14 years now and I’ve worked through “a few” PTR cycles like this one. In this post, I’d like to talk about some of what we’re doing in Eternity’s End that you’ll see in updates coming to the PTR over the next couple of weeks. We want the return of class sets to be as satisfying as possible, so we’re tweaking different aspects of how you’ll acquire and fill out your Class Set based on your feedback.

First and foremost From the start of the PTR, we’ve intended to have Set pieces drop from a separate loot table on each boss that drops them, so that you’re guaranteed to see many Set pieces over time. These Class Sets are a highlight of this content update, and we don’t want a run of bad luck to cause a raid team to complete a full clear and realize they only got a very small number of Set pieces. The PTR’s there for testing, and rather unfortunately you all found a nasty bug that doubled the loot tables.