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I liked it better being totally oblivious to the new feature in 5.4... Now it just sounds like they're gonna have us do some old content at high level, and that doesn't make sense either since in interviews they're still saying the scaling content is something they'll do when they got time...

So now it just sounds disappointing and the hint makes no sense to me... Damn you, Blizz, don't disappoint and give us some old stuff updated to high level, that ain't new content.

Ahead of the curve? Were "hardcore" players really whining that loud?

Raid 25man if you want to see Thunderforged item ever. 25% for 6 items in 25man is roughly a 1-2 TF items. In 10 man 2 items with 10% is roughly a 20% chance of 1 item to be Thunderforged.

Originally Posted by Wishblade

Damn you, Blizz, don't disappoint and give us some old stuff updated to high level, that ain't new content.

... disappoint? Depends on how they do it

Using the scaling system to do old content would be awesome. The biggest issue is probably how they are going to tune the rewards. Competitive gear is out of the question, but mounts, statless gear for transmog, pets and other things would suffice.
They have the tech to scale stats, and mob health/damage depending on numbers of players, so hopefully a group of 5 90s would have a similar experience to a group of 3, or 8

As long its a toggleable mode I'm okay with them "rehashing" old raids for some fun.

I just can't see how it'd be old instances scaled up to 90 when they've recently (a few days ago) said that scaling content is something they'll do whenever they have the time, meaning surely it won't be around for some time. That's just how I see it...

If it does turn out to be old instances, then the rewards better be damn sweet otherwise I see no point, you can still go visit all those places afterall. And some bosses would need to be spiced up a bit or altered slightly. Some of those old bosses would be boring as hell nowadays. And of course, should be toggeable so people can still solo old stuff, would be sad to see all the neat stuff go away.

I just hope it's something awesome that's not old content rehashed, and if so the rewards should at least be awesome and it should feel fun to go back to those places.

If they introduce old raid scaling the rewards better be good, as the idea sounds absolutely appaling to me. I already raided everything when it was actually new content, so personally I wouldn't be having any new content at all.

pfft player housing such an overrated feature

So the new feature is probably going to be some sort of scaling down & run old content thing? Sing me out, I don't like the idea, at all. Been playing since vanilla, and in my opinion, nostalgia aside, the game is so much better in many ways nowadays, it's just not 'fresh' anymore and is a predictable experience overall. People asking for vanilla servers etc. I just don't get them. Well, there you go, you'll get to gather up and kill Ragnaros all over again while romanticizing about the past and stuff.

.... then again, they might do it in a way that is completely awesome. No high hopes, but I can't rule that possibility out.

So the new feature is probably going to be some sort of scaling down & run old content thing? Sing me out, I don't like the idea, at all.

Agreed. I think it's a retarded waste of DEV time to constantly retune old content for all the class-mechanic changes they make.

Besides: I have almost everything I want for transmog anyway (only need HC25 T10 and some cata T11 stuff), so the feature would be completely useless to me.

@PC setups: Still creating highend systems with Onboard sound? Fail.

Originally Posted by tavalus

"Ghostcrawler's unannounced feature might be in Patch 5.4 if it is complete in time. As far as a hint goes, "A lot of players have suggested that they be able to do older content, so it is something along those lines"." oh ffs, please don't let them ruin soloing content for those of us that like it with this scaling crap. I don't want to have to pug mc or icc or whatever, really hope this is limited to Dungeon Finder or something with a toggle.

Bonus rolls give look almost every raid, can't go wrong haha.

Whatever his idea is, he should just go ahead and announce it. I do not want to see more "idea's" that turn out to be failures, waste of time, or nothing more than a 1 hour ok that was fun....and never do it again.

Originally Posted by Fortera

What about if you have friends who are starting alts or new characters and you don't want to reroll?

I miss the point of this question.

Leveling is so fast, you can get from 1-90 in about 2 weeks of real causal play, or couple of days if you play a lot. That said, I don't have real life friends who are just now joining World of Warcraft, most of them are already 90, on different servers or quit, as for guild friends, same story, most are 90, if they re-roll an alt, it's their business not mine.

I also don't think anyone would like to do Molten Core, even new players, when they could be doing new raids where they can buff their character with highest gear possible, as opposed of getting vanity items and what not in old raids (suppose Blizzard wont be giving lvl90 ilvl 550+ gear in Molten Core or Icecrown Citadel, cause that would just be dumb).

As said I'm playing this game since release in Europe, and I've spend a lot of time in every possible dungeon or raid instance, to ever want to do them again with the intended difficulty. I'm not a world-first guild, so I'll focus my time on the most recent raid instance that is released instead and that is showing to be all-time consuming already.

What would be an awesome feature, is to have an arena like the Brawlers guild where you could load up any boss from the past and current and practice on him with your guild 10 or 25, normal or heroic. But I'd rather they focus on new character models and character customization, so not everyone really looks exactly the same, like painting gear adding some artistic changes to armor etc., - I don't care that much about this, but it helps to immerse you more with the game if not every T6 warrior looks exactly the same, but maybe one has some purity seals hanging from his shoulders, the other one has skulls on the shoulder spikes and what not.

The WoW team is suddenly getting bigger? Wonder how that comes

Yeah Exodus <3 #1

Originally Posted by Valala

New Dungeon Difficulty: Original

When you enter the dungeon/raid, your level, stats and gear will be scaled down to the original intended values.

This just sounds perfectly awful to me. I just can't conceive of being so terribly bored that I'd rerun an old dungeon or raid that I've very likely previously run nearly to the point of puking with my gear and such scaled down so that I could somehow revel in my 12k DPS?? I'd rather logout and watch reruns of sitcoms from the 80s.

Originally Posted by Wishblade

I liked it better being totally oblivious to the new feature in 5.4... Now it just sounds like they're gonna have us do some old content at high level, and that doesn't make sense either since in interviews they're still saying the scaling content is something they'll do when they got time...

So now it just sounds disappointing and the hint makes no sense to me... Damn you, Blizz, don't disappoint and give us some old stuff updated to high level, that ain't new content.

I read just last week in a dev post where he said something to the effect of "no plans yet but maybe one day we would like to adjust player stats and gear to lower levels" or something like that. I'm trying to find it. To me it sounds like a gear and stats scaling thing to the effect of what GW2 has.

Silly to say we're "no longer unlocking at the same rate" when we never were. The variance was just too small to notice. But since the Blues told us from day one it was server-by-server, why the hell did admins decide they were lying to us?

Originally Posted by lostdrewid

Silly to say we're "no longer unlocking at the same rate" when we never were. The variance was just too small to notice. But since the Blues told us from day one it was server-by-server, why the hell did admins decide they were lying to us?

Because with even as low as 50% participating every realm was the exact same percentage in the US until this suddenly changed one day late last week.

In our 25 men kill of Jin'rok, we got FOUR thunderforged items! Talk about beating that 25% drop chances.

more used old conent,not sure if i like that idea