The Arthas Costume...

Thanks for all the reports. Looking into expected cost/attainment rate and charges. It is Epic quality so I expect it is intended to be difficult to get, just not sure if the current price is intentionally as Epic as it is. :)

Still a couple weeks to go until Hallow's End is over, of course.

So after looking into it there are a few hotfixes that will be going out early next week to address the Lich King costume. We won't be testing these fixes until Monday, so until they're applied and listed in the Hotfixes blog these are just current intentions. Assuming it all goes to the current plan: the cost is being adjusted down by half, we're ensuring it is indeed 50 charges (20min per charge), and that it's usable outside of the Hallow's End event period. Keep in mind that when the hotfixes go out the cost shown on the vendor won't change, but the item will indeed be purchasable for the hotfixed amount.

10/18/2014 09:26 PMPosted by Bab

10/18/2014 09:00 PMPosted by Bashiok

Keep in mind that when the hotfixes go out the cost shown on the vendor won't change, but the item will indeed be purchasable for the hotfixed amount.

Not really a problem for me, but there's multitudes of Arthases out there that don't read this Arthas and won't have any indication to realize that the Arthas is now more easily Arthased.

Yeah. Unfortunately not really any great Arthas' to ensure they're Arthas. :\

10/18/2014 09:21 PMPosted by Clova

Seems rather silly to price it in such a way you have to choose to either purchase that, or the pets and other things because of there only being about 650 candy thats physically possible to get.

It's intentionally priced as being sort of the 1 item someone would want to go after if they really want to turn into the Lich King every once in a while. It won't be what everyone wants to chase after, and that's ok. However, pets are account-wide of course, and so you can get multiple items if you're participating in the event on multiple characters.

Edited my previous reply, but adding this here too for reference/trackers:

The charges on the item appearing as 1 (instead of 50) while on the vendor is due to a separate bug we're tracking. Many items throughout the game may be currently showing 1 charge, but when purchased will display their correct amount of charges remaining. It's a bug we're working to address but won't be within the Lich King costume fixes.