Eh when the raid avg ilvl is 900, just how hard should bosses that drop 910 be? Next to impossible, requiring 500 attempts each? lol
That may (and should) only be the case for Gul'dan.
What do you expect, when guilds go into raids with BiS gear with 2 940 legendaries, max AP and raid 16 hours a day?
Usually in most tiers, the top guilds will go in 10 ilevels lower than later guilds. Right now, I bet Method's ilevel is already higher than my guild's will be in 2 months.
If you tune around best gear, you get a ToV situation where it's just a wall - and this time you don't even have AP to help slowly nerf it.
This is the conundrum that Blizzard made for themselves when they had the titanforging system, legendary system, AP system and doing nothing to really address the split run system (although I can't really think of what they could do for that).
Force permanent personal loot is the only 'clean' way I can think of.
But yeah as others have said, Titanforge makes balance a nightmare since the differences between average and top end has been increased to far. Helya worked for the top end, and as a result she is the least killed boss of any recent tier (heck, probably 2nd ever behind Vanilla Naxx).
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Another poorly tuned raid almost cleared within a day.
How many people here are new to watching the progression race? This is nothing new. The majority of the raid falls over pretty quickly, and the last few bosses are what takes significantly more time.
http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/eu/.../rating.tier17
http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/eu/...ting.tier16_25
I am not saying that this raid will for sure be as difficult as previous raid tiers; there is no way to know that until the top guilds get to Elisande and Gul'dan. This could end up being another EN, or the end bosses could be tougher than Helya, but at the moment, nothing out of the ordinary has happend.
Because mechanically repetitive/predictive encounters are so hard to figure out...and that's not even considering the custom BigWigs/DBM scripting these guilds use. Make every boss have a high gear check and this would sort itself out fast. But then all the bitching about artificial cock-blocking would be never ending.
Fixed that for you friend. Please don't be misleading.
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Good to see there are some sane mmo-c posters here who don't think something falling over in a week somehow ruins the game for the other 99.9%.
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Technically she is old news when sargeras comes out because the achievement for ahead of the curve is before sargeras is released which is probably going to be early summer. Sadly I think blizzard will prove to be dumb and somehow to try address the split raid thing. I am just hoping it doesn't fuck over us normal people. And people who realize alt raiding outside of world 10 guild is dumb as fuck as proved by Nurfed. They raid 12 hours a week and don't class stack of split raid and still managed us 50 rankings at the end of mythics while guild worse then them are split running lmao.