atleast the koreans know which raid difficult should people be doing.
Forgive me for asking, but...
Why does anyone care if the Koreans have a percieved advantage?
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
For anyone who is complaining abt 25 man dps reqs, there are things like skull banner and storm lash nowdays, which 25 man gets to pop pretty much every 30 secs-1 min when on 10 man you get 1 or 2 tops per 3 mins, in 25 man you can chain skull banners to last the whole burn phase also, so naturally the dps req should be higher per person than what it is in 10 man. If it aint well then 25 man would be far far easyer than 10 mans. And even atm it is happening cause for a 10 man bringing 2 warrior or is allready kinda not optimal in setup design
Or this is actually a bad thing when you know everyone and actually don't want to raid with any of them...
Works both ways.
OT: Not saying it's a bad idea, all I hope is they take allot of stuff into consideration such as 10 mans having to merge for said changes. And pretty much removing 10 man competitive raiding. As bigger guilds can prolly run 25 heroic/normals that are easier to get gear and abuse said gear over the normal loot obtained by the smaller guilds w/o this opportunity...
Plus what seperate difficulty and gear levels will create is that 10 man hc guilds will feel the need to run 25 man normals, and 25 man hc guilds will feel the need to run 10 man heroic, in both cases the item levels that those groups have are higher than what the content is designed for, and if blizzard decides to buff the encounters even on 10 man cause of this, it will make any 10 man guild that doesnt wanna raid 25 man quit progression oriented raiding
I hope blizz wil make this change for all regions, else ppl will complain
This will kill Wow forever if they think this will solve anything. Worst idea EVER
Separate lockouts = YES YES YES, awesome.
Better gear? NOOOO, no that entirely undermines the fucking point. If I have only 9 friends on a day, cool we can raid still, but now with the added bonus of "its too easy, we out gear it, even though it is current" wtf blizzard, what the bloody fuck.
So if they do it, then every guild, that wish to race for sever first will need to kill 50 (25+10+LFR+Sha+Galleon) bosses each week and still get time for progress runs. And they WILL need to do 10ppl and even LFR for loot. Yeah "great"news indeed. This can worked well in Firelands with fewer bosses, but not now.
You never played on low pop server, didn't you?..
Help small realms form 25 man? LMAO, my old realm couldn't do a 10 men raid, we were getting pugs for 3 days until we managed to form a group for DS.. I don't remember last time when there were even 25 people online in main city...
This change will screw small realms even more than they are screwed ATM.. They will be basically excluded from a progression patch completely and suffer even greater distance to more crowded ones where you could pug second raid if needed..
Is it reasonable to assume that Blizz are "testing the waters" with the KR realms and that they are considering making this change global?
Also, why isn't this on the front page yet? Pretty big news, IMO. Wakey wakey, Boub!
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This argument really is moot until we are provided with some hard evidence:
1. Impact on the 10 man guild community in regard there being a different lockout
- Will this have a negative impact or positive impact? Will it increase the number of 25 man instances being entered or will it remain the same? Does recruitment on the affected servers attract a higher chance to end up in a stable guild?
2. Difficulty challenges
- Will the difficulty change dramatically for 25 mans given that there is a higher standard of loot on offer, in particular fights that are deemed dps races?
3. Intent of implementation
- This is currently, from what I understand, being implemented on Asian realms. Is their intent to test this out for future implementation on US and EU realms or does it stop here?
4. Fall back position
- In the event that this is not as received as well as they hope will it revert back to the current system, or will something new come up?
5. Market stability
- Will the BMAH now house items on all realms from potential 25 man heroic raid instances or will it only be on Korean realms?
Given the changes are proposed for going live and not currently live it would be unfair to enter into speculation without understanding the full evidence yet to be provided. From a personal standpoint in a ten man guild I am more interested to know how it works and what benefits/losses there are in the end. Although we are still at the start of the expansion recruitment for a ten man alliance guild seems increasingly difficult, and if such changes it may become exacerbated.
Personally I'd like to see one of two scenarios play out.
The first is introduce a lockout system that is 10-15 man and 20-25 man, with the number of players in the raid instance increasing the difficulty of the encounter. Logistically tuning a fight would be a nightmare but would allow a lot of flexibility for guilds to work on encounters. No need to increase the ilvl of loot for 25 man, just adjust the number of loot potential to increase as numbers of players increase.
Secondly have the ten man format remain as is, but allow for cross realm available for 25 man normal and heroic content. This would allow like minded players to gravitate toward each other without requiring to leave their current guild or server transfer, in event a similar situation as the KR servers come into play. Alot of guilds broke up in Cata, and more in MoP as players gravitated away from the game and the 10 man raid scenarios became more enticing over recruitment. In the event guilds partook in a cross realm situation make the loot situation become more like the LFR style (you're in on a boss fight you either get gold or loot) however make the chance of loot coming from the fortune coin being increased.
In the end though we need to wait and see...
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Subscribers wern't lost in WOLTK, it was WoW's most active time. If this got spread across all regions i'd welcome this with open arms. I LOVED this style of raiding in 3.2/3.3, it felt like we actually had something meaningful to do. As i recall nobody was forced either, nearly all realms had a healthy balance of 10 and 25 man guilds, where as the state we are in now where i'm in the ONLY 25 man guild left on our realm.