As someone that didn't have the opportunity to do OG Naxx (which was the majority of the playerbase) I rather enjoyed my time doing it in WOTLK. It was certainly too easy, but that was more an issue of lacking difficulty modes like we have now.
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As someone that didn't have the opportunity to do OG Naxx (which was the majority of the playerbase) I rather enjoyed my time doing it in WOTLK. It was certainly too easy, but that was more an issue of lacking difficulty modes like we have now.
Wombat
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Naxx was also just reused from a previous expansion.
I mean, can you imagine if Blizzard just copy pasted the hub city straight from another expa... Oh.
But yeah, given the choice between the 6 month discount rate and a 'free' mount or unsubbing, I too picked unsubbing. I'm sure I'll resub a week or two prior to 8.1.5 or 8.2.
Until then though, time to have my two weekends of Destiny 2 for this half of the year then get back to DQ11 (since I'm not buying a console for RDR).
I mean, can you imagine if Blizzard just copy pasted the hub city straight from another expa... Oh.
But yeah, given the choice between the 6 month discount rate and a 'free' mount or unsubbing, I too picked unsubbing. I'm sure I'll resub a week or two prior to 8.1.5 or 8.2.
Until then though, time to have my two weekends of Destiny 2 for this half of the year then get back to DQ11 (since I'm not buying a console for RDR).
Fucker
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I keep forgetting about old raids. Which ones are good at 120? I did a BFA emissary the other day and got 0 gold...and I'm down to 30k total.
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- The team is trying to strike a balance between deterministic goals and RNG. Ion acknowledges that the RNG has gone too far. Going forward, they are introducing some vendors and trying to implement more deterministic methods of obtaining important gear.
- The team has discussed improving bad luck protection and streak breaking (getting multiples of the same item) especially in weekly caches.
- It is likely that class themed armor will return in the future, but for the time being they want to continue to create more armor appearances based on where it is obtained.
Glad about this too. The lack of diversity in sets has been off-putting.
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That’s the thing it is so formulaic and shitty. They have found this garbage way of doing things to make the game paint by numbers. That and the removal of content just to add it back over and over, flying as an example, do it our way and then get the quality of life improvement back then later we take it away again.
Add Flying then remove it, then add it, then remove it, then add it.
Brawlers guild then remove it, then add it, then remove it, then add it.
Class abilities added, then removed, then added, then removed.
I mean think of this expac. what do we know. They will add over the next year 2 maybe 3 raids, 2-3 dungeons, some catch up mechanics that 100% negate any effort put into the game prior. They will add 1-2 new zones in which you cannot fly but the rewards will funnel you into playing on them just. High Argus and Broken Shore. All while overinflating ilvl to where a squish will be needed before we know it.
There is a reason when I play the only parts of the current WoW I enjoy are M+ and Raids, it's the only part that still feels like the old game I enjoyed but even that is wearing thin with how many get burnt out on it.
Add Flying then remove it, then add it, then remove it, then add it.
Brawlers guild then remove it, then add it, then remove it, then add it.
Class abilities added, then removed, then added, then removed.
I mean think of this expac. what do we know. They will add over the next year 2 maybe 3 raids, 2-3 dungeons, some catch up mechanics that 100% negate any effort put into the game prior. They will add 1-2 new zones in which you cannot fly but the rewards will funnel you into playing on them just. High Argus and Broken Shore. All while overinflating ilvl to where a squish will be needed before we know it.
There is a reason when I play the only parts of the current WoW I enjoy are M+ and Raids, it's the only part that still feels like the old game I enjoyed but even that is wearing thin with how many get burnt out on it.
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Caeden
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I think the problem is Ion is a highly analytic person. Hell, he seems wayyy more suited to be an engineer. (Trad - mechanical, chemical, etc) Now he’s the ideas guy and has been for two to three expac. It doesn’t work with his mind. They need a new ideas guy. Ion clearly can design raids - the most analytical of processes outside class balance. The problem is fitting everything to a rigid structure - almost an equation each time makes it fucking so goddamn predictable.
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Except 25 man immortal. That shit was complete aids (especially the boss where you dropped from the tunnel, I think there was some kind of D/C bug there that would fuck the run). Obviously this wasnt because the bosses were hard though.
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WoW's been bleeding subs since Cata, when they killed off the social element of the game with cross realm instances, guild perks (destroying entry-level (social) guilds), raid finder, etc.
Most people don't care about gear or item levels / sets for their own sake. Those carrots only matter if you can show them off to your friends and gain status in the community. They reflect the utility that you can bring to your guild.
WoW designers have done everything they could for ten years to remove barriers that forced community interaction. Removing those barriers made the game easier to play, easier to experience, easier to get bored with.
I spent a little over a decade as an MMO addict in EQ and WoW, playing 6+ hours a day with long gaming sessions on weekends that lasted as long as I needed to keep playing. Was it for loot? Nah. It was for my friends.
I still remember spending three months of my summer vacation sitting at a computer 16 hours a day, in the same zone, sitting on the side of a fucking mountain not playing the game, and having my brother play the other 8 hours a day just in case someone sent me a tell and I didn't respond in time to keep my spot in line. All for some stupid MMO item. The item looked like a limp dildo, it's stats were shit, and I never replaced that item before I quit the game 4 expansions later. What was the item? The Everquest 1.0 Cleric epic.
My entire guild woke up at 4 am to kill that fucking dragon, and we wiped. So I had to do it all over again. When it was time to turn in the final quest, everyone in my guild was there to see it.
WoW is in a death spiral, and the Devs are unwilling or incapable of recognizing the cause. They're selling a single player game when what made WoW popular were the MMO barriers they destroyed.
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They had to do cross realm instances, though, without doing blatant server merges. FFXIV does the same thing. Honestly it is a good solution for making sure low population servers remain somewhat viable by letting them cluster together for the purposes of doing activities like raids, dungeons, etc.
Sure, you lose a bit of the "server community" aspect, but you know what really kills a server community? People getting frustrated that they can't find groups and quitting the game/server transferring as a solution, resulting in an actual dead server community because it is a ghost town.
Sure, you lose a bit of the "server community" aspect, but you know what really kills a server community? People getting frustrated that they can't find groups and quitting the game/server transferring as a solution, resulting in an actual dead server community because it is a ghost town.
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They needed server merges years ago. Blizzard just doesn't want the bad press that would come from it. That's the only reason it doesn't happen, cowardice.
I have toons stuck on low pop servers (they were high pop years ago) and their cross realm tech sucks. Not paying them to server transfer, even at discounted prices. If I loved the game, then maybe. But I've always been casual with WoW and their shitty policies don't like casuals.
I have toons stuck on low pop servers (they were high pop years ago) and their cross realm tech sucks. Not paying them to server transfer, even at discounted prices. If I loved the game, then maybe. But I've always been casual with WoW and their shitty policies don't like casuals.
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The best gold per time spent is probably Firelands. You'll get about 1700 gold total. Next I would try LFR Thrones of Thunder.