Why are specific classes listed on this instead of offering patterns? Offering patterns is a hell of a lot more raid-friendly than limiting gear to specific classes. /frowns. This is also creating a ton of confusion as to whether gear can be bought on alts after being turned in, and is causing a lot of grumbling in channel seeing so much limitation on sets.
Once unlocked, it's unlocked for all toons, reguardless of class. So it is easier, in many ways, to get armor for alts, now, than it is for mains. If T2 armor is locked behind t1, it has the potential to cause serious issues... no leather drops? Too bad, druids and monks can't get their armor. Way more plate than the raid can use? Guess it's going to rot while other people still need armor... It's a very odd decision.
No Mermut. Not all the pieces are seeming to work that way. We've had two raid members each loot a leather and a plate piece and go unlock it, and neither one of them have alts that the set pieces show up for. It seems to be sets in which the pieces are class specified from the box that still have to be unlocked via pebbles that do not unlock the set for alts, which is crappy. So far, instead of seeing destruction sets that could be useful for 16 people if it were a pattern, we've seen a plate destruction piece (classes specified were tanks and clerics) that had to be unlocked with the pebbles that was useful for only two people in raid and a leather destruction piece (specified to brawlers and druids) that was useful for two people. Neither of the was folks said their alts could go buy the pieces after they had unlocked them. So they bought a largely unusefulpiece. Sooooooo extremely limiting to specify classes. Please give us back the patterns instead for us to make our own decisions as to who the piece could be useful for instead of making the decision for us.
There is a known issue with the raid patterns where it lists a specific item (cloth, leather, chain, plate) when in reality they function exactly like the patterns of last expansion. If you were to loot, for example, the Shadowborn Bracers Pattern of Destruction, you could purchase the Destruction armor piece (cloth, leather, chain, plate) that is appropriate for your class, regardless of what is shown in the examine window. One of my guildmates successfully purchased chain boots from a plate boot pattern and chain bracers from a cloth bracers pattern. That being said, some raid patterns are completely broken and can't be exchanged for armor.
