Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
WoD will (re)introduce the normal and heroic difficulties for 5man's at max level
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Right off the bat, we can clearly say that WoD heroics will be much harder than MoP heroics.
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we’re not actually planning in making them as hard as the hardest heroics of all time, like the hardest from TBC, or GB and Stonecore from Cata, but nothing is set in stone yet, we’re still thinking about what will be the right difficulty level for anything WoD, and your continued feedback will definitely help u
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We also think that we can rework a little bit the whole concept of challenge modes...I’d love to hear what would be the “perfect challenge mode” for you, specifically in regards to reward structure and gameplay philosophy concepts.
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Our current goal is to make WoD heroics similar to the difficulty level you had in Vortex Pinnacle heroic for example.
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it’s not really that fun to read through the full dungeon journal and memorize everything before fighting any boss, it’s much cooler when something is so well implemented that even if it’s completely unexpected you can still try to “guess” what it does and adapt, react to it on-the-spot