{"id":808992,"date":"2025-12-06T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tozNZuwexes2CC3CXdJJBW"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:58:48","slug":"blizzard-obliterates-an-orb-from-wow-classic-season-of-discoverys-3rd-phase-for-causing-problems-leaves-a-terrifying-class-of-crusader-enchanted-players-in-its-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/blizzard-obliterates-an-orb-from-wow-classic-season-of-discoverys-3rd-phase-for-causing-problems-leaves-a-terrifying-class-of-crusader-enchanted-players-in-its-wake\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard obliterates an orb from WoW Classic: Season of Discovery&#8217;s 3rd phase for causing problems, leaves a terrifying class of Crusader-enchanted players in its wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>World of Warcraft: Classic&apos;s Season of Discovery has been a success so far, outperforming most of Blizzard&apos;s metrics\u2014but its experimental nature has also caused no shortage of problems. Most recently, those problems have surrounded an unassuming orb.<\/p>\n<p>But first, some context: Season of Discovery (SoD) proceeds in &apos;phases&apos;, which are sort of like seasons in a live service game. The level cap&apos;s bumped in bite-sized level bands, an old dungeon is retrofitted into a 20-player raid, and a whole bunch of new runes hit the established meta like a swarm of meteors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/wow-classic-season-of-discovery-phase-3-is-livewith-a-raised-cap-of-level-50-54-new-runes-a-fresh-20-player-raid-and-an-unruly-emerald-dream\/\">Phase 3 began recently<\/a>, raising the cap to level 50\u2014but it also put players in punting distance of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/classic\/spell=20034\/enchant-weapon-crusader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enchant Weapon &#8211; Crusader<\/a>. I use the phrase &#8220;punting distance&#8221; here because &#8220;in reach&#8221; isn&apos;t exactly accurate. See, Crusader is typically relegated to level 60 characters in your usual Classic server. It&apos;s best-in-slot for basically any melee class, giving them a chance to increase their strength by 100 for 15 seconds (alongside a self-heal) with every swing.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe for this is dropped by Scarlet Spellbinders, high-level enemies in the Western Plaguelands, making it very obtainable with a group. Though a key reagent to enchant it, Righteous Orbs, can only be found in Stratholme, a high-level dungeon currently inaccessible in SoD.<\/p>\n<p>Except, there <em>was <\/em>one creature outside of Stratholme that dropped Righteous Orbs: The Crimson Courier, a level 60 elite with a posse of high-level bodyguards wandering the plaguelands. It only had a 2% chance of dropping one of these things, but the supply was so vastly small and the demand was so massively high that groups of admirably-sweaty players were pumping a level 60 weapon enchant into a level 50 ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/wow\/t\/righteous-orbs-no-longer-dropping\/1831112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blizzard has had to step in<\/a>, writing: &#8220;With a hotfix that went live to all realms earlier today, Righteous Orbs no longer drop during Phase 3 of Season of Discovery. They\u2019ll become available as intended in Phase 4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I think resource wars breaking out over a single mob is cool on paper, I can understand why it shouldn&apos;t be required to fight over a single creature with a 2% drop rate of a key item (or to have deep enough pockets to buy one off the Auction House) just to get your best-in-slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hotfix, however, doesn&apos;t remove already-active Crusader enchantments from the game, which means there&apos;s currently a terrifying warrior caste of Crusader-wielding players stalking phase 3. This is, as one might imagine, causing a lot of arguments.<\/p>\n<p>On one side of the fence, players who were actually enjoying a unique and player-discovered grind feel as if Blizzard are clamping down on their fun: &#8220;We were just told that more hardcore players should come up with creative ways to push their gaming. This was one of them,&#8221; one <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/classicwow\/comments\/1c51ka5\/comment\/kzrgz1w\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\">playe<\/a><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/classicwow\/comments\/1c51ka5\/comment\/kzrgz1w\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">r<\/a><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/classicwow\/comments\/1c51ka5\/comment\/kzrgz1w\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\"> writes<\/a> on the Classic WoW subreddit. &#8220;I would never do this myself but it has no impact on the game besides giving the sweats more to do.&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/wow\/t\/righteous-orbs-no-longer-dropping\/1831112\/41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another player<\/a> argues that the hotfix has also created &#8220;an elite group of players that nobody else can touch or achieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the fence, some people are arguing that an entire server having to compete for a 2% drop rate item from a single enemy just to get a must-have enchantment is, uh, a little unhealthy for the game: &#8220;Rip to the bozos that [real-money-traded] to buy the enchant&#8221;, a player <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/classicwow\/comments\/1c54nww\/comment\/kzs7bvs\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a>, after discovering that parsing website Warcraft Logs <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/classicwow\/comments\/1c54nww\/warcraftlogs_banned_logs_with_crusader_enchant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won&apos;t be counting Crusader Strike-enchanted runs<\/a> for the rest of the phase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s ultimately a fascinating situation\u2014I don&apos;t think the Crusader enchantment can be considered an exploit by any reasonable person, but it certainly had an adverse impact on phase 3. Grinds are the meat to an MMO&apos;s bones, but if a grind is too severe, it&apos;s going to encourage real-money trading and all sorts of unsavoury activity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"PLB5PYNLEUPCVKjqmeZESR\" name=\"WoW SoD Phase 3.png\" alt=\"A night elf faces off against a satyr and a felhunter in World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Phase 3.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/blizzard-obliterates-an-orb-from-wow-classic-season-of-discoverys-3rd-phase-for-causing-problems-leaves-a-terrifying-class-of-crusader-enchanted-players-in-its-wake.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the other hand, orb-hunting seems like it was a fun time for the people who were good at it, and just nixing the orb out of the phase entirely seems like it&apos;s pushing against the tide. Why not add a few more couriers to the map and make an event out of it\u2014maybe even bump up the drop rate?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, at the time of writing, pre-existing Crusader-enchanted weapons remain. Whether Blizzard&apos;ll take the hotfix one step further and remove these overpowered stat-sticks is another question entirely\u2014though considering the current backlash, I&apos;m not sure it&apos;d be wise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/blizzard-obliterates-an-orb-from-wow-classic-season-of-discoverys-3rd-phase-for-causing-problems-leaves-a-terrifying-class-of-crusader-enchanted-players-in-its-wake\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft: Classic&apos;s Season of Discovery has been a success so far, outperforming most of Blizzard&apos;s metrics\u2014but its experimental nature has also caused no shortage of problems. Most recently, those problems have surrounded an unassuming orb. But first, some context: Season of Discovery (SoD) proceeds in &apos;phases&apos;, which are sort of like seasons in a live service game. The level cap&apos;s bumped in bite-sized level bands, an old dungeon is retrofitted into a 20-player raid, and a whole bunch of new runes hit the established meta like a swarm of meteors.\u00a0 Phase 3 began recently, raising the cap to level 50\u2014but it also put players in punting distance of Enchant Weapon &#8211; Crusader. I use the phrase &#8220;punting distance&#8221; here because &#8220;in reach&#8221; isn&apos;t&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/blizzard-obliterates-an-orb-from-wow-classic-season-of-discoverys-3rd-phase-for-causing-problems-leaves-a-terrifying-class-of-crusader-enchanted-players-in-its-wake\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":808993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,135,1080],"class_list":["post-808992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-mmo","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blizzard obliterates an orb from WoW Classic: Season of 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