Unfortunately, we will have to agree to disagree there. I'd much prefer to spend time preparing to raid than raiding the same thing four times. I'm not saying resist gear farming was great, but I actually enjoyed the attunement quests in TBC for example. That's better than steamrolling lfr any day.
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I believe this is a minority opinion simply because WotLK was WoW most successful expansion and came off the heels of Blizzard removing the arbitrary gating mechanisms behind raiding in Vanilla/TBC. I don't think 4 raid difficulties is the best direction, either, but I certainly didn't like having to clear an entire tier's worth of raid content just to unlock a single character for relevant content.
Just saw the news about Nostalrius going to Blizzard. Keep up the good work boys, we still got a mountain to climb but we may be able to get back to Azeroth after all!
In other words, you cannot prove a hypothetical future event until it occurs (if it does?)
With this kind of silliness, you might as well claim the theory of gravity is still to be proven.
It still has to be proven that the opposition to the wish for classic servers is more than an anti-hype while the audience that would stick to it probably is a sizeable minority (of what?).
It still is to be proven that the theory of gravity is no more than hype while the folks who claim it is true keep dropping apples from trees.
It is still to be proven that the wish for pre-cgi original star wars releases is more than a hype while the audience that would prefer them is probably a small minority only.
i can see potential here. Would you like to have this named after you in the debate protocols of Forum Logic? ( I need an affirmative answer to do this, the creator of the Tedium Rule proving that difficulty doesn't change when mobs do more damage is active on this thread but didn't say yes so I cannot credit him for that discovery)
I can see potential here. Rym's Unprovability Quandry? I would like to find a colorful name like Jack Vance used with spells in the dying earth short stories and novels.
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LOL the "skill ceiling" of Old Times.
The skill ceiling was wrangling 40 people to do a thing successfully. The only fights that even compare in complexity to now are the very final bosses in each raid. Ragnaros. Nefarian. C'Thun. And a couple Naxx bosses like Four Horsemen or Kel'thuzad.
And for every one of those bosses, there were two or three bosses like Broodlord Lashlayer or Ebonroc. Fights that had only a tank swap and, if you're lucky, one single other mechanic.
You have to understand, Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius pissed off an amazing number of people that left even us at Nostalrius surprised.
For instance, today we learned that Luke Lafreniere (@LinusTech), of Linus Tech Tips fame (a famous youtuber) and his Dad played Nostalrius.
Then, there is Jon Jafari (@JonTronShow), another famous Youtuber. His video about Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius got 2.5 MILLION views.
Then there is Chance Morris (@Sodapoppintv), another widely popular Youtuber, and literally dozens of other people from the Twitch and Streamer community.
Literally, it was as if Blizzard kicked the hornets' nest.
All these people used Twitch and You Tube to make their displeasure with Blizzard known, and Blizzard suddenly got hit with an amazingly high wave of refund requests and subcription cancellations that mentioned "Nostalrius".
We were surpised at one point from Twitter posts by Blizzard retail subscribers (most of us no longer have an active Blizzard sub) that told us that they had hit Blizzard with refunds and cancellations that we had never asked.
#NostalriusBegins became a popular movement, largely due to Chance Morris, Jon Jafari, Kungen and the Twitch community, and then it bit Blizzard up the arse.
AFAIC that's carmic justice; what goes around, comes around.
I would like to thank once again Mr. Mike Morhaime and Blizzard Entertainment for being so nice to us.
Veteran vanilla player - I was 31 back in 2005 when I started playing WoW - Nostalrius raider with a top raid guild.
Neither of us is pretending that about LFR. No one is saying normal isn't harder than lfr. I'm saying progressing through the same raid multiple times is less fun than one difficulty. I feel like I must not be making myself clear because the responses in getting are out in left field.