WoW Community (especially MMO-Champion):
Casual: "Blizzard, please enforce Dungeons! We hate scenarios! I'm unsubbing if we don't get dungeons in Patch 5.2/5.3/5.4!"
*WOD Announced, 7 Dungeons, less than WOTLK/TBC Expansions*
Casual: "7 is fine guys"
I must be missing something because I generally have no love for dungeons. I queue up, go in, kill stuff, get gear - do I still need more gear? If so, repeat. If not, rejoice that you can move on.
Very few of these dungeons even have anything interesting about them, the three Dragon Soul instances were the only ones I can remember as being actually engaging. I wouldn't even be able to associate names, pictures, or bosses with more than half the dungeons in BC because they had no purpose that I could tell besides clearing for loot.
And most of them were in the same spots so they all looked the same - Hellfire, Tempest, Terrokar, Steamvault... not really hard to make 15 dungeons when they're clumped up in groups of 3 or 4 and share the same building, with identical appearances and mobs.
So only 7 or 8 in WoD? Math sounds great to me!
I do believe they said they would be adding some later, since the playerbase was a bit upset that there were no added dungeons in MoP. I could be wrong though
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I'd really choose 7 dungeons over 15 dungeons. Some might ask me why and I'll tell you exactly why.
First of all, the 5man dungeon content (for me and for many others) lasts for a few days at most. I plan to farm my pre-raid gear as fast as possible and after that 5mans to me are something I rarely get into. Second reason for choosing only 7 dungeons over 15 has to do with gearing up aswell. If there's a single item in one dungeon you really really want and it doesn't drop from the daily specific queue dungeon, going on a random heroic dungeon queue spree is a lot more enjoyable with just 7 dungeons than 15. Chances of getting into the one you want is higher.
I would also like to believe than focusing on just 7 dungeons allows for better content (as in better 5 mans and better raid dungeons for not having to "waste" time for a shitload of 5man dungeons).
That's just me and my opinion, I kind of see the point why some want a lot of dungeons but unfortunately I can't relate to that preference at all.
TBC had a lot less overall content than WoD will have. We needed a lot of dungeons back then, but we don't now. Why don't people understand this?
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OP's avatar is quite fitting.
Not to mention that normal and heroic had different loot tables.That means 15 dungeons with unique bosses, loot for each boss, and varied environments.
You would think people would ask for more and better content instead of collectively making excuses on behalf the developer why just as much, just as bad, less or worse is perfectly fine like some sort of groupie fandom. Especially after Blizzard released no content for months and raised the price of the expansion.