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Retail raids (and dungeon) are missing that kind of stuff.

Originally Posted by Holdodlig

Retail raids (and dungeon) are missing that kind of stuff.

You never did Priory?

Originally Posted by Twdft

You never did Priory?

Priory doesn't have a rotating weekly mechanic. The issue in retail, for people who like this kind of thing, isn't that it is missing 100% always and forever. The issue is that it is extremely rare. 99% of content fits into very narrow boxes.

Originally Posted by Twdft

You never did Priory?

You never have to ask yourself if you're going to choose between the paladin or the mage in Priory because it doesn't matter which one you take the fight's going to be the same. Here we talk about skipping complete mechanics with a weekly rotation.

Priory's a bad example; I think Waycrest Manor back in BfA is closer to this (though it's not quite the same); even then, however, it was easily the worst part of the dungeon because it made routing a nightmare from week-to-week. So much so that they put in a fixed rotation when the dungeon came back last expansion.

Originally Posted by Holdodlig

You never have to ask yourself if you're going to choose between the paladin or the mage in Priory because it doesn't matter which one you take the fight's going to be the same. Here we talk about skipping complete mechanics with a weekly rotation.

So you don't understand how priory works then?

You literally build the first boss in there based on the route you take. I'm not sure why you would say something so confidently and be so incorrect on it.

I'm not even saying it was a good comparison to this for the record, but claiming the fight is the same no matter what is complete bullshit rofl.

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Originally Posted by NineSpine

Priory doesn't have a rotating weekly mechanic. The issue in retail, for people who like this kind of thing, isn't that it is missing 100% always and forever. The issue is that it is extremely rare. 99% of content fits into very narrow boxes.

Xalatath's affix is literally a rotating weekly mechanic. So rare it's in every key between 4-11!

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Originally Posted by Relapses

Priory's a bad example; I think Waycrest Manor back in BfA is closer to this (though it's not quite the same); even then, however, it was easily the worst part of the dungeon because it made routing a nightmare from week-to-week. So much so that they put in a fixed rotation when the dungeon came back last expansion.

Yea it was terrible for casuals who didn't know how to just cheese it and take the same route every week regardless. When you don't know and the game is trying to force path you through the hunters lodge that was shit rofl.

Originally Posted by Tech614

Yea it was terrible for casuals who didn't know how to just cheese it and take the same route every week regardless. When you don't know and the game is trying to force path you through the hunters lodge that was shit rofl.

I can't even remember what the cheese was. Wasn't it going up and to the left or something? Shit was annoying and had no business in M+ regardless.

Originally Posted by Tech614

Xalatath's affix is literally a rotating weekly mechanic. So rare it's in every key between 4-11!

Affixes aren't diegetic. The reason some people like mechanics like this is because they are diegetic.

Originally Posted by Tech614

So you don't understand how priory works then?

You literally build the first boss in there based on the route you take. I'm not sure why you would say something so confidently and be so incorrect on it.

I'm not even saying it was a good comparison to this for the record, but claiming the fight is the same no matter what is complete bullshit rofl.

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Xalatath's affix is literally a rotating weekly mechanic. So rare it's in every key between 4-11!

In both way you have a CC to kick. Eventually, the unavoidable aoe ability from the add takes the form of a flamestrike dodgeable flamestrike. And again, even if that change really mattered (which doesnt since people would rather take unavoidable damage than flamestrike) , it'd be overshadowed by the trash road you'd take and the % you need in your road. And I'm not even talking about doing the fight with the first add because it would just be a disaster in term of M+ road to skip Shaynemail and keep it for the boss. Which is honestly a shame because she's the only one briging a different approach of the fight.

Again, you don't have to adapt according to your group comp or to what's the easiest path as the road here is already set up by the trashes anyway and not the mechanics (who are easily dealt with, and I guess it's not that bad in M+).

As for Xal affixes, you loose once you get into +12 which is a shame because I really liked how little of an impact it had on your key run, but still had to be dealt with.

In both way you have a CC to kick. Eventually, the unavoidable aoe ability from the add takes the form of a flamestrike dodgeable flamestrike. And again, even if that change really mattered (which doesnt since people would rather take unavoidable damage than flamestrike) , it'd be overshadowed by the trash road you'd take and the % you need in your road. And I'm not even talking about doing the fight with the first add because it would just be a disaster in term of M+ road to skip Shaynemail and keep it for the boss. Which is honestly a shame because she's the only one briging a different approach of the fight.

Again, you don't have to adapt according to your group comp or to what's the easiest path as the road here is already set up by the trashes anyway and not the mechanics (who are easily dealt with, and I guess it's not that bad in M+).

As for Xal affixes, you loose once you get into +12 which is a shame because I really liked how little of an impact it had on your key run, but still had to be dealt with.