Man I get the feeling that they figured since they've got LFR for EZ mode content they can just push normals harder. I just get the feeling it's gonna keep pushing players out of normals and into LFR. I don't know what's up over in irvine. I'd love to be a fly on the wall.
I am not tired of MoP designs, tired of complainers? Yes, Raid designs no.
If you look at old raid designs it boiled down to grind for nature/dark/fire/what ever resist gear outside the raid and then tank and spank the boss now that you could survive the attacks, and then it was do the same thing but don't step in the fire.
I really can't believe we have people complaining about complex and different original mechanics, would you prefer to know you could just stand still and click 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1 for the entire fight? Are you looking for challenge and effort or a game where you can watch netflix and absently stroke your keyboard?
I think the OP misses the endless trash mobs that BC raids have. I apparently have a much different memory of pre-wrath raiding. the only thing i think that is really making it easier is no more attunement and now you have guides online everywhere telling you how to kill it.
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I think the designers have a "Lessons learned from DS" poster that hangs in their office.
I compare the Horridan encounter to Spine of Deathwing. On Spine, after each gate you faced the exact same thing ... just more of it. It was a little mind-numbing. So on Horridan, each gate provides a new set of mechanics and priorities. Good idea, but it can be a little overwhelming when you start paging through all the abilities you'll see in the encounter.
lol Holy paladin in sunwell, spamming 2 different buttons... and only because i could use 2 different ranks of holy light... so hard
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I am personally amazed with what all they can do with mechanics in a game that is 8 years old and was not designed to have mechanics.
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Just a heads up, you can at any time stop being an angry spirit, a wow forum ghost and follow the light to lands where you actually do and enjoy what you are posting about. It's okay, we will get along without you some how.
not really, I like the 5.2 raid and I dont think its the same over and over again
Besides the fact that this thread is all opinion, what fights are "complex"?
And there we go. You completely lost credibility by basicly saying everyone who disagrees with your statement is a fanboy.
I do however agree that they are using certain mechanics on multiple bosses, although not nearly as much as you say. Seeing it's a game that has been running for over 8 year with hundreds of bosses I'm actually surprised they are still comming up with new original ones.
While some bosses have indeed got a lot of abundant mechanics for the sake of having mechanics, the playerbase has evolved, the simple and few mechanics on bosses used in the past would never work now as dealing with most of them has become second nature to players that have played the game for a long time. Keeping that in mind some more and more complex mechanics on bosses than we are used to isn't really that bad.
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So, at least your in the right spot for the part of the reason for this. The players. Your one of those right? Welp, other players have opinions too and they've expressed them many times over the expansions. Its up to you to whine about whether you like certain types of players or not. But that is not the discussion you started. Always better to start off with many examples of comparisons of bosses from the tiers you do and don't like and why. So, other posters don't do it for you. Give some details, then go into how Blizz is this or that. ....or AN ENTIRE EXPANSION IS CRAP BECAUSE BLIZZ DID THIS OR THAT.
Didn't they learn from the "playerbase" that Wrath started way too easy. (no need for the rehash debate here) Over and over they have admitted this and said with guides, videos, and overall better skill of the playerbase, they needed to do this. In combination with each expansion adding new classes or new abilities are added giving everyone something new to work with and they want you to use those new abilities. Follow that with (ooo ahhh) "Class balance", which inevitably should give everyone in the room/raid something to do. Again, the playerbase didn't like being just a debuff class, the playerbase didn't like carrying the "10-15" in 40 mans. The playerbase didn't like ToC mostly for the setting, but also don't like miles of trash, but didn't like seeing Anub for the 3rd time. Blizz makes design mistakes all the time. But you want to use this particular tier to compare to others? You are just tired of raiding my friend or currently roadblocked.
IT IS SO COMMON TO SEE THE USE OF "FANBOY" FOLLOWED BY "BLIZZARD FIX MY GAME FOR ME" Maybe a new term should be created to define them. Seems to be a lot more of those than real, "blind" fanboys these days.
Of course, threads like these bring out the "EPIC FEEL" posts. Let me tell you, when I first saw Stitches roll up on Darkshire, it had an epic feel. But that bitch better not look my way now.
I also just think the entire "raiding" market is just waning.
I mean, take GW2 for example. The game has only 8 dungeons (which are extremely difficult), and the rest of the content is scales your level down so you can experience any zone you want at any time, along with a plethora of World Bosses.
WoW is probably the only game I think think of that has stuck to the old End Game formula and has made it extremely successful.
The prime issue is that the MMO Market is waning. The "Old Kings" of MMOs are just starting to wither, unfortunately. That's just how the market works.
The same even goes for GW2 which has had some drop in activity.
The MMO boom is kinda gone.
Agreed. We just have to face it that MMOs are a fading thing in the eyes of the general gaming public. Unless something drastically changes, like Blizzard's Titan being able to create the next market burst since WoW, or something of that caliber, I do not see the status quo being any different.
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This thread needs to be immortalized somehow. The amount of straws being grasped here to try to justify the ends is staggering.
Im just baffled at what some people want out of this game. 8 pages deep and people are still passionate at having ToC's styled raids with Patchwerk/Heigan encounters throughout.
So LFR isnt fun, Normal isnt fun, Heroics arent an option, and dungeons are boring. Am I getting this right? The game sucks for you yet you keep paying for it. The only winner here is Blizzard.
The MMO boom is definitively gone to the profit of Moba games, so what? There's still millions of MMO players, wow alone still has over 9 millions with a very active dev team and community, guess its all time to quit because its not mainstream anymore?
Seriously, who cares.
What I was saying is that as the market changes, so does the customer and what they want.
Although I don't agree with a lot of his opinions, Osmeric makes a good point: there has been a substantial drop in Raiding Activity with this expansion.
Raiders are the minority, and they're the few who still enjoy doing such an activity.
Players are looking for more and more to do, which is why Mists included so many features outside of raiding.
That's the unfortunate reality of it. I'm simply laying a base down, and my own personal explanation plus opinion, as to why things are like this.
REGARDLESS! I do love Raiding myself, especially when it's for story purposes and simply challenging myself, and I love the new raid in its entirety.