Firelands Raid Changes Incoming
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With the final showdown against Deathwing approaching, we’ve been keeping a close eye on players' progress through the current Firelands raid content. Before patch 4.3 is released, we want groups who are working on Heroic-difficulty content to be able to get as close to Ragnaros as possible, and we want players who are tackling normal progression to be able to experience as many of the encounters as they can. To achieve these goals, we’ll be toning down the difficulty of both normal and Heroic raids through hotfixes in the coming weeks. In general, we plan to reduce health and damage of all raid bosses in both normal and Heroic Firelands by around the same percentage we brought difficulty down for the original Cataclysm raids when Rage of the Firelands (patch 4.2) was released.

We're looking forward to seeing more groups of players face off against the Fire Lord in the weeks ahead. However, before we make these changes, we want to give everyone a final shot at the bosses at their current difficulty level -- so this is a heads up that we’re planning to apply the difficulty hotfixes beginning the week of September 19.

Stay tuned to the Patch 4.2 Hotfixes blog for these and other live updates to the game as they happen.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Firelands Raid Changes Incoming started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. mmoc5b6f556fce's Avatar
    Better hurry up with T13 then.
  1. thunderdragon2's Avatar
    intresting very intresting
  1. KaPe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Simca View Post
    I don't really understand why people are mad. If you wanted the challenge, there was plenty of time.Honestly, if you haven't completed the challenge by now you weren't up to it in the first place. You can try again in 4.3.
    Uh... it's been barely 2 months? And Ragnaros just got nerfed this reset? Two weeks is kinda short amount of time for you to judge that "people weren't up to it in the first place".
    Not to mention they didn't touch 4.0 heroic bosses at all in their fixes, and yet now they plan to nerf all bosses?
  1. Fleuria's Avatar
    Ragnaros was nerfed by 20% already, he won't even feel like a good boss any more LOL sucks for shit casual guilds i guess
  1. Brosemon's Avatar
    Lolz GGReally unnecessary Blizz.
  1. Nicolicious's Avatar
    Sorry to see this. Got 4/7 in HC atm. Was hoping to do 6/7 before any nerfs was coming. Still time ofcourse. So I hope we do it. We started out late cause of summer break so we would prolly had 6/7 by now if we didnt.. So sucks!
  1. GrieverXIII's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Simca View Post
    I don't really understand why people are mad. If you wanted the challenge, there was plenty of time.Honestly, if you haven't completed the challenge by now you weren't up to it in the first place. You can try again in 4.3.
    Yeah, building a guild from 0 a month after Firelands starts means we shouldn't enjoy progression normally because heroics are too hard for the part of the playerbase its not aimed at? They can nerf normals all they want, makes chill/fun 10man alt runs faster and might be able to speed clear 7/7 now, but i really really don't see any reason to nerf heroics, first 6 bosses are already fairly easy.
  1. bohapjut's Avatar
    If you think it will be too easy, just have your raid equip lower ilvl gear to match the nerfs and get the prenerf experience
  1. Publius's Avatar
    This is ridiculous. I don't mind a nerf after the end of the tier, but before? Come on Blizz, this is inane.
  1. mmocd73addef4d's Avatar
    I'm a little bit disappointed. I understand why they are doing, but... *sigh*However, I'd be a hypocrit if I didn't stand by my reasoning that they can't please everybody, and I'm sure some people will welcome this news, but I'm not one of them!
  1. mmoc99c71a92cd's Avatar
    This seems to soon, are they just going to rush the expansion so they can meet their deadline of first quarter next year?
  1. mmoc09207c29b6's Avatar
    I think it's way too early for this big of a nerf. I mean PTR for 4.3 isn't even up yet and I'm sure it'll take 2-3months+ till it will be on live servers. Really? I would be fine with a nerf with 4.3 just ahead of us, but not this early.
  1. juubear's Avatar
    stuff happens
  1. Evil Inside's Avatar
    I dont see why the hardcores should be complaining about this. If they were really "hardcore raiders" they would've cleared the content as soon as it was released.
  1. Nepinator's Avatar
    No point nerfing heroics. Okay, I'm not a heroic raider by choice, I just can't be arsed with it, but for those guilds out there working on heroic modes or heroic Rag for that matter it's a kick in the balls to nerf it for them now when they've been working so hard at it. Reminds me of Sunwell before patch 3.0 when we had M'uru so low... ouch.
  1. GrieverXIII's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by vertex705 View Post
    If you think it will be too easy, just have your raid equip lower ilvl gear to match the nerfs and get the prenerf experience
    Yeah like good guilds could just turn off icc buff to avoid playing a mind numbing shitty gear farmfest for 6 months? See how that worked?
  1. araine's Avatar
    Thanks for nothing. the constant endless nerfs on encounters is getting really old. reg mode already is a snoozefest of boredom
  1. Baelic's Avatar
    too soon staghelm!!! Tooo sooon!!!
  1. Exera's Avatar
    Gee thanks Blizzard for making current content a walk in the park, and no this is not coming from someone who did 7/7 heroic ages go, our 25 guild is 3/7 heroic we'll get our 4th this upcoming reset, I dont want to clear 7/7 of current content in easy mode, it wont feel as an acutual accomplishment, it'll just be "meh" when we kill something.
  1. fibbers's Avatar
    rofl at this game

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