Does insane max distance make encounters easier? Oh hell yes it does, no argument. You know what else would make encounters easier? Transparent textures, drawing on screen, etc. Arguing that the change is bad because it makes encounters harder is a REALLY bad argument - because it's not up to you to decide how hard the encounters should be.
Oh, and I agree that melee with massive bosses looks ridiculous, but zoom is a really shitty solution to this problem. A bandaid solution.
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Yeah, I'm sorry, I must be new cause I've never seen any screenshots or videos where people would use custom made models. Can you provide one please, since you are clearly a veteran?
The night is dark and full of terrors...
As a melee, fuck you blizzard.
For anyone caring enough to see more of the world, the presumed "lack of accessibility" could be found with a simple google search. Furthermore, in raiding environments, information about that and other "hidden" facts were tossed around whenever you asked stuff. People who want extra camera distance are not "cheating" on people who don't use it. Getting more information about the game world (either pvp or pve) isn't cheating. If i find i want a different perspective in a game i actively look out for options, whther "hidden" or readily available.
One of the reasons i never bought starcraft 2 (hell i havent even finished the free campaign) is the small visible area. Same with Diablo and HotS. A single camera view is too limiting for my personal gaming experience. Especially when i had a choice in WoW for years. Removing choice is never a good thing.
Although i'm far from believeing conspiracy theories, all those "design" choices, the pruning, the simplification, adding mini games in the game and now this...
one can't help but really consider the idea that WoW will be turned to a console game. Every day, a little more.
I'm just gonna leave my tear collector here. Back in 24 hours to collect.
I don't see the issue with this.
Yes, I play zoomed out, with most raid bosses at the cvar max, but with the new action camera options, we'll be able to
see the whole bossmodel anyways. And that's what I wanted. I always wanted to have my character closer and that's now possible.
This is the worst idea I've ever heard them implementing lately... I can't believe it that they didn't even ask first. Make a poll or something, it's super obvious that nobody would agree to this.
Can't even type a reply on the forum for them to see, cause it always says "No characters were found". I hope we get the message through them just like with the Reins of the Crimson Water Strider when they wanted to nerf it in Legion so they can see how horrible this decision is and maybe revert it back. They can even put that hidden option into that drag bar. It doesn't need to be hidden.
I always played with the max distance camera, if I could I would have zoomed even more....... especially in raids. I mean COME ON BLIZZARD.....
Why do games keep forcing us into close cameras I can't understand. I HATE Dota (for example) 85 % just because it's such close camera and it was a very strong point that I loved about WoW, that it allowed me the freedom of zooming out. I can't believe they are going to remove this, its so disappointing!!!!
It is like they are going out of their way to fuck with their players.
People are way too bored with the game and bitch and whine about everything, i doubt anyone would notice the difference otherwise. Sometimes i did zoomed out more that the game allowed by adjusting the slider how ever it was like 0.00001% of my play time and i play since 2004. I feel sorry for blizzard and the gaming industry in general, you have this generation of whiny people crying about everything.
Agreed. It also limits the overview of a battle, which would allow Blizzard MORE freedom in building raid mechanics and raid boss abilities and hinders the building of raid strategies. No general has ever fought a battlefield without a map overview of where the troops are supposed to be. Limiting Overview=Limiting war intelligence. And that's what max camera is all about in WoW.