Originally Posted by
PvPHeroLulz
Relevant as in bragging rights. Albeit Aetish came in use for clearing Kara and even into some of the early SSC and TK, as T3 > some of that gear.
ICC and DS were both out for such a grotesque amount of time and through such an amount of nerfs - that you could PuG them - Albeit i do agree with that the gearing of months was a factor for BC and Vanilla.
However, i do not entirely agree with that the difficulty stemmed largely from gearing even if it was a big factor - I'd say that the mechanics overall of some of the older fights were just very unforgiving compared to what we see today. A lot of the most notorious fights, did not come down to gear checks, but actual skill checks (Such as Vaelstraz with Burning Adrenaline) - where the mechanical difficulty still is rivaled today in some fights (Archimonde with the Soul absorption effects in Hyjal, The Lich tomb on 2-3sec for 100% - 0%)
But of course, for every such fight, there was the gear check (Nef with Onyx cloak, Patchwerk (lol), 4 HM, Sapphiron, Huhuran, Vicidious (Spelling and genuinly funny that Blizz was like "Frost dmg, you gotta haz it", top kek)
Overall, The older game was just a lot more unforgiving, but it had it's charm, i'll admit, albeit i never really did do Naxx or SW, i did all the other content tho, basically
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Boss gotta die first ; But months of gearing 40 people is not something you'd understand the work behind.