I hope for a huge sub drop that'll make Blizzard reconsider dropping 5-mans and adding too many dailys.
I hope for a huge sub drop that'll make Blizzard reconsider dropping 5-mans and adding too many dailys.
Wtf are you talking about? I LOVED that they didn't drop welfare epics, I loathed that about WOTLK! What I was saying was the person wanted days like BC and Vanilla, and then on another note say he wanted epics from 5 mans so his time felt rewarded and stated he was contradicting himself.
I just recently came back for the patch, but I will tell you all what has kept me quitting and never sticking to the game lately.
I've been playing a monk since beta, and on live... and I can't seem to get an alt geared. I literally try and I just can't. I'm sorry but extra rep doesn't mean shit when you get 200 rep for a daily and then an extra 100. I'm sorry but 625 valor for an item as opposed to 1250 still only nets you 1 item a week as opposed to one item every two weeks, etc. Not to mention I'm sitting on a valor cap because I don't have the rep. And what? Instead of new dungeons to catch people up with gear, you STILL make it tedious as all hell to obtain PAST PATCH rep gear? No increase in LFR drop gear? Not even getting into waiting 40 minutes to a raid only for it to a) fail or b) only get you one boss and have to wait ANOTHER 40 minutes for the same raid. You can't find pug raids because you don't have the gear, you can't find pug raids because you don't have the boss kills, you can't find a guild because you have no experience. All in all, until they make it easier to gear up alts, I'm done with this game. They've admitted it's a problem, so I'm hopeful someday I'll play again.
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1) they significantly increased the chance to get loot from LFR in the 5.0 raids. I have gotten 10 or so items on two alts just on heart of fear/terrace LFR on alts.
2)the only thing I agree with you on is the rep requirement for previous gear. That should have been stripped with the valor gear price reduction. I do dailys on two toons, I refuse to do it on my third toon and any other toon I get to 90.
3)with #2 said, you haven't played much since 5.1 happened if you're complaining about the rep gains. At revered you have a bind on account 100% increase in rep with that specific rep. It works cross server. I got to revered with klaxxi by questing in dread wastes then exalted 3 days later on my alt. I got revered with Golden Lotus in a lot less time, and honored with shado pan just on quests. I hit revered with them two days after I hit revered with Golden Lotus. Rep is exceptionally easy to get now so while dailys suck It's a TON lesspainful to grind rep(which I am agreeing with you shouldnt be the case for 5.0 gear) Shieldwall/horde equivalent should still require rep however.
4)I agree with the issues with LFR only on the queueing in and getting the final boss, then having to queue again to get the first two. There should be serious ramifications for quitting LFR early, It's beyond annoying to have to queue for a section potentially six times on my three toons because people leave for whatever reason.
5) all your other reasons aren't anything new to this game. No experience = no go. You are expecting a 16/16 guild to take you when you have zero experience...With the way the game is migrating to 10s, every person knowing what they are doing is almost essential. 25s is a little more lenient to an extent. You need to find a guild that's not that far into the content, not expect a full clear guild to take you in. It's called progression. And hey you may enjoy this newer guild more than you ever would that full clear guild.
See, i don't get it. Somehow everything up to raiding is apparently only good to prepare you for raiding but raiding itself is somehow perfectly ok on it's own. Is it so difficult to imagine that doesn't raid draws this ending line one level lower?
Why do people in 5-mans better loot ? Why do raiders better loot ? If ToT is balanced for Ilvl 502 then what do you need Ilvl 522 loot for ? To get through there easier ? Same thing with the people who don't raid.
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Ever been to Magister's Terrace ?
new 5 mans that give out raid-level gear is just not right. you SHOULD have to progress throug previous tiers to reach the current one
Why should Blizzard make actual content? They consider dailies "content".
The one thing which would make me play again was 5 mans. Good job blizz.
This should have been expected. LFR has replaced the need for Five-mans to fill in a gear gap between major patches. Next month we'll have 8 separate LFR queues. 5.4 hits and we may see up to 12. It's unsurprising that 5-mans are not being planned.
I was talking about the expansion as a whole
Burning Crusade 5 mans:
Hellfire Ramparts, Blood Furnace, Slave Pens, Underbog, Mana Tombs, Auchenai Crypts, Sethekk Halls, The Streamvault, Shattered Halls, Durnholde, Mechanar, Botanica, Arcatraz, Black Morass & later added Magisters Terrace. That's 15 in total. Compare that with MoP's 8, 3 of which are re-vamps.
And the point I was really making that the gear from the MoP 5 mans suck balls. The best gear pre-raiding comes from those terribly dailies, and scenarios in their current state offer no challenge and are just plain boring. They feel like extended quests to me. 5 mans have been the back bone of WoW since it's inception I see no reason to de-value them or to throw them away all together.
Yes, the last boss dropped epics, it was fairly common to have an epic drop from the last boss in TBC. It is entirely different from the current model. I believe the drop rate for current epics mirrors vanilla drop rates for epics in 5 mans, not tbc drop rates.
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Not to mention that much of the MOP 5mans reuse content. Gate of the setting sun, jade serpent, and nuizio temple reuse content already in the game.
They did that so you could actually get a feel for the architecture and feel for the instance. They don't reuse them in the slightest.
If people actually payed attention to the level of detail in the Mists dungeons, they'd see how more fleshed out and original the are than most dungeons in WoW's history, with nothing reused within them.