Firelands Changes Impact
Blizzard made major changes to Firelands a few times during Patch 4.2 (July 26th and Sept. 20th) to allow more players to see the Firelands content. We take a look at just how many more players were able to down Heroic Ragnaros and clear Normal Firelands. Data was looked at for over 2.7 million level 85 characters, most of them being in the US.

Class balance for characters with the Heroic Ragnaros achievement was also graphed. The Heroic Firelands Boss Kill Ease graph displays the percentage of characters that have killed each boss, provided they have killed at least one of the Heroic Firelands bosses.

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Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
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Fan Art Update
The World of Warcraft Fan Art Section has been updated with five new pieces of fan artwork set within the Warcraft universe.


This article was originally published in forum thread: Statistics: Firelands Changes Impact, Pumpkin Carving Contest, Fan Art started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. ZugaikotsuShogeki's Avatar
    Cool story bro

    Infracted. Please actually read the forum guidelines.
  1. Ave07's Avatar
    Good to see that more people got to clear/kill more heroic bosses before the changes.
  1. Ap0calypse's Avatar
    Just shows that Rag heroic needs more nerfs, probably when 4.3 is released, not that many people will bother to go back just to kill him though. Barely anyone will bother with Firelands since LFR will be released, and will only work with Dragonsoul :S Also Shaman least represented class for Rag Heroic lol
  1. Dominian's Avatar
    Druid Master race reporting in.
  1. enfermera's Avatar
    be nice that even with my 367ilvl on 4 of my 85's id be able to get ragnaros. too bad my server is so bad and elitist.need the achieve to do the run, cant get the achieve unless im geared, cant get geared cause no one will take a chance.catch 22
  1. kneeo's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ap0calypse View Post
    Just shows that Rag heroic needs more nerfs, probably when 4.3 is released, not that many people will bother to go back just to kill him though. Barely anyone will bother with Firelands since LFR will be released, and will only work with Dragonsoul :S Also Shaman least represented class for Rag Heroic lol
    Rag doesn't need more nerfs, people need to be less terrible at the game.
  1. Joels's Avatar
    quite a bit of people got rag before the nerf, and even more after.. that's ok i guess..
  1. Deathwing Aspect Of Death's Avatar
    guack...loll true tho
  1. Naibil's Avatar
    I love stats. Keep em comin'!
  1. Nathiest's Avatar
    So yea the majority of players don't actually care about raiding. What a surprise.
  1. rockdontroll's Avatar
    normal clears was beginning to flatten out but then the nerf kicked in... it was already easy before the nerf so it just shows how bad the playerbase are at the game
  1. Evilution's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dominian View Post
    Druid Master race reporting in.
    Not surprising as they are the only class that can fill all 4 slots.
    And they don´t suck now so people like to play them more.
  1. Durandro's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ap0calypse View Post
    Just shows that Rag heroic needs more nerfs, probably when 4.3 is released, not that many people will bother to go back just to kill him though.
    We'll all have superior gear, so in effect it will be 'nerfed' purely by having a new tier.

    Mind you, some people failed in Ulduar even with Icecrown gear. But then that place was extremely well tuned (and by that I mean ball breakingly difficult).
  1. hellboyy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rockdontroll View Post
    normal clears was beginning to flatten out but then the nerf kicked in... it was already easy before the nerf so it just shows how bad the playerbase are at the game
    lol so they should make this stuff harder when barely 1000 people in the world have a kill in a game played by over 10 million people.
  1. Canbie's Avatar
    This just proves that Blizz needs to severely nerf Heroic modes. Less then 3000 players are doing this? That is just wrong. Why are they making content for such a low percentage of players? Even normal modes, this is just hilarious.
  1. Gratlim's Avatar
    So let's see hum:

    Normal Fireland: 135k / 2,7m =5%
    Heroic Fireland: 2400/2700000 = 0,08 %

    I like how content post nerf was cleaned by only a 5,08% of the tested population post epic nerf. One word: scary....Hopefully we will be around 10% for normal mode by december.

    It looks like you've more chance to get Rivendale charger mount than killing H.Rag even after nerf. Funny
  1. lukyl's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nathiest View Post
    So yea the majority of players don't actually care about raiding. What a surprise.
    It's that they can't do it not they don't care. Bad players outweigh the good.
  1. sydazlir's Avatar
    Is it any surprise that druid is the highest for Rag? Their knockback is absolutely crucial for the sons.
  1. wiggletard's Avatar
    I want a festergut costume for halloween too :*(
  1. Canbie's Avatar
    My point is yes most players are bad at raiding. Blizz either need to tune the encounters accordingly or teach people how to raid.

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