Switch quest reward

[nooobieee 3]

I know the general policy is to not grant a request to switch quest rewards. But I read this comment from 2006...

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Can't remember what category I used, I think it was "Quests". My reason for the item reimbursement was that when I originally completed the quest (which was before the first druid review), feral druids were not a viable build at the time so getting Blackhand's Breadth wasn't even a consideration. But after the druid review (1.8?) feral became viable and I re-specced, and wanted to trade in the reward I had chosen for the feral item. A couple days later a GM contacted me in game and told me they could do that for me, but they would only do a limited number of equipment restores and was I sure I wanted to use one for this 

This applies to me as well, since Blizzard allowed it, would the team consider changing the policy to reflect this common issue with Druids? In my case I would like to switch to Mark of Tyranny now that I have more capability to tank instances, something I didn't even consider possible at the time I did this quest.

http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/wow/t-11227.html

[Hudson 16]

Unlike retail, we have had no changes to talents or spells as everything is at the 1.12 functionality since the release of the server. Unfortunately, GMs won't be able to help with player mistakes regarding quest item selection.

[nooobieee 3]

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GM contacted me in game and told me they could do that for me, but they would only do a limited number of equipment restores and was I sure I wanted to use one for this

Regardless of the rationale of the poster from 2006, I inferred from this sentence that GMs were authorized to make such a change for a very limited number of times for each account or character.

 

2 hours ago, Hudson said:

Unlike retail, we have had no changes to talents or spells as everything is at the 1.12 functionality since the release of the server. Unfortunately, GMs won't be able to help with player mistakes regarding quest item selection.

I understand, but to be clear, this was not a mistake. The only path to end game content for virtually all druids is healing. Only now am I able to gather and become (some may say marginally) viable as an off-tank. Now that I have enough healing gear, I can start to alter my spec to include tanking talents, something I couldn't viably do before now. The mistake, I feel, is locking virtually all druids from what is a BiS tanking item. A mistake that GMs in retail recognized and handled during vanilla retail.

Addtionally, with all due respect, talents and spells have not been at the 1.12 functionality since the release of the server. For example, changes/fixes to spell co-efficients have been made as well as the release of new ranks with the new content.

Of course, I respect the right of the team to set any policy they deem appropriate. Thank you for your time.

[nooobieee 3]

I wanted to post this comment from Taladril, one of the most respected Druids on the server.

 

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Mark of tyranny is just so good. It is BIS and by a far margin. Blackhand's is an excellent trinket that takes a long time to replace - but it is replacable. If you 100% only ever want to do dps then go for blackhands. If you even have a remote chance of thinking you want to tank, then tyranny is your only option. Not having it is a game changer.

I still believe that Druids are uniquely locked out of being the best they can because of this policy and think it should be carefully reconsidered.

Now that Naxx is out, the game has changed. For a druid to be effective there they really need to have the best tools available.

[Stodola 26]

We do not fix mistakes, accidents, or changes in mind for selecting quest rewards.