The anniversary event is very underwhelming

[setsuna f seiei]

Some people are too stupid or impatient to explain fights and get angry when people don't know them, even though they are part of the problem. Although getting angry at people not being the best players in raid finder is kind of like getting angry at losing at a casino.

Now I understand, the original message (to me) read like you was unahppy with people not knowing fights over 5+ years old but yes. The current culture now is 1 wipe = leave, everyone must be over geared for the content or no invite. Very bad culture.

[froschhure]

What is the point of doing Heigan when it even ends before safety dance?
What is the point of Vashj if you even do not need to throw spines?
What is the point of Lich King when you even can stay in Remorsless Winter?

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[Great Destiny Man]

It's meant to be light hearted, if you were looking for something serious you were setting yourself up for disappointment.

Also seeing how badly people seem to fuck up defile on Arthas and the spawns on Ragnaros be very thankful you only have to endure a small portion of those fights.

[How dare you]

It's meant to be light hearted, if you were looking for something serious you were setting yourself up for disappointment.

I'm not looking for anything serious, I'm looking for something fun.

Also seeing how badly people seem to fuck up defile on Arthas and the spawns on Ragnaros be very thankful you only have to endure a small portion of those fights.

I don't want the fights to be harder, I want them to be satisfying.

[Starter]

I mean dat rep and exp bonus though... I love this event. Only better one was the molten core one
And this one might still be better cuz old av

[piitxu]

Do you have to have BfA / be level 120 to do it? Saying ilvl 320 isn't informative to those of us who don't have the expansion. :P

Yeah you need to be 120 and 380ilvl i believe. You can get to that the same day you get to 120 tho, so if you really want you have a week to level and get to it

[deenman]

What is the point of doing Heigan when it even ends before safety dance?
What is the point of Vashj if you even do not need to throw spines?
What is the point of Lich King when you even can stay in Remorsless Winter?

Why there can't be event that not all casual baddies are able to finish it?
I seriously thought i will jump from playing Classic and do this event... but i is not even worth installing retail, lol.

there is no way they would have had a limited time anniversary mount linked to a difficult encounter,it is silly you would have even expected that,if you want a challenge feel free to do 25+ myths or try to complete the raid in its first weeks of release,but if you like mounts you rly should do it,the deathwing mount looks rly good,as drake mounts go its proly the best looking

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

I wouldn't mind it that much if Alliance could fucking stop sucking in AV. All battles I've joined, my team is either already getting farmed in our base, or half the team is just running around in our mine in the north doing nothing, so it's impossible to get anything done as Alliance. Can't even manage to do the quest to kill Korrag a single time. Horde always gets there first, and they have much better players so it's just impossible unless you're lucky and get a godmode group.

[Bigthumbb]

I wouldn't mind it that much if Alliance could fucking stop sucking in AV. All battles I've joined, my team is either already getting farmed in our base, or half the team is just running around in our mine in the north doing nothing, so it's impossible to get anything done as Alliance. Can't even manage to do the quest to kill Korrag a single time. Horde always gets there first, and they have much better players so it's just impossible unless you're lucky and get a godmode group.

I think it's because there's a quest to get supplies in the mine that rewards timewarped badges, and you need badges from AV quests to get the mount...it's stupid that WINNING awards no mount progress/badges.

In regard to the OP, yeah, it's super underwhelming. I was kind of shocked when Heigan suddenly faded out after like 30 seconds of fighting, and that was it. We're already being ported straight to a particular boss in a raid - it's not like this was going to be particularly time-intensive. You can't even sink your teeth into the fight. All I was expecting was a bit of fun, and I was just left confused and, I guess, let down. Is it too much now even to expect a nerfed boss fight to last for the entirety of its healthpool? Ah well. Maybe the frenetic pacing of the raid encounters is meant to serve as a counterpoint to the other event on offer - 'Old' (and potentially very LONG) AV?

[Galathir]

there is no way they would have had a limited time anniversary mount linked to a difficult encounter,it is silly you would have even expected that,if you want a challenge feel free to do 25+ myths or try to complete the raid in its first weeks of release,but if you like mounts you rly should do it,the deathwing mount looks rly good,as drake mounts go its proly the best looking

It wasn't necessarily difficult but you at least needed some brain cells and strats for the 10th anniversary Molten Core remaster.
I'm EU so I haven't tried it but if the fight really stops with only a fraction of the bosses' abilities shown it is kinda disappointing.

[MrLachyG]

I am not gonna lie, when I zoned in to the first boss (Cho'gall) was a bit surprised to see he was at 40%.... but getting ported out when he hit 10% was equally surprising. Rag was annoying, took a few attempts to down him. the 15% exp/rep boost is nice though, and it is also good that I finally get to finish off farming xmog off those blasted dragons of nightmare and have plenty of time to do so.

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It wasn't necessarily difficult but you at least needed some brain cells and strats for the 10th anniversary Molten Core remaster.
I'm EU so I haven't tried it but if the fight really stops with only a fraction of the bosses' abilities shown it is kinda disappointing.

oh MC took my group ages.... like 3-4 hours

[Great Destiny Man]

I'm not looking for anything serious, I'm looking for something fun.


I don't want the fights to be harder, I want them to be satisfying.

Both your points are subjective, just saying "make something fun/satisfying" is so broad it's useless as feedback.

[kamuimac]

Got the pet. Got the mount. The event has served its purpose. Now awaiting patch 8.3...

werent they adding a bg with mounts to farm up too ?

[How dare you]

Both your points are subjective, just saying "make something fun/satisfying" is so broad it's useless as feedback.

And I've laid out why I find it dissatisfying and not fun.

[Great Destiny Man]

And I've laid out why I find it dissatisfying and not fun.

And I replied that what you're asking for is fights to be longer, which feeds into it being more serious and more difficult (both of which you're apparently against).

[Moggie]

All those fights, if done scaled down to the relevant levels would've been horrid to even look at in pugs. Some of them were oh so painful when they were relevant. Anniversary events are never super exciting. Hell, I don't remember many events in WoW that were like, interesting minus the scourge invasion and even then, you got your stuff and got out. Always expect less than you're dreaming of... this is blizz after all.

[f4ncybear]

Really weird balancing. 20 minutes of LFR for PvE mount, meanwhile PvP mount gonna take hours at this rate.

[Lane]

Yeah you need to be 120 and 380ilvl i believe. You can get to that the same day you get to 120 tho, so if you really want you have a week to level and get to it

Thanks. I'm a little surprised the anniversary event is so exclusionary. I would've thought the raids would offer scaling so more people could participate, but maybe it's a marketing ploy to sell more copies of BfA? It's also weird that it's a Deathwing mount, that seems better saved for next year which would be the 10 year anniversary of Cata.

[KayRule]

You do 3 bosses, you jump from boss to boss, you enter the fight midfight, you sometimes only stay for half a minute, and then you move on. Cataclysm doesn't even have Deathwing, TBC doesn't even have Illidan. You don't actually get to kill any boss. Got Lich King in Wrath, but the fight ended before we killed him.

Because they chose iconic fights for raiders instead of tourists like you. How many people I keep seeing asking why Heigan is in instead of Kelthuzad....lol

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I'm not looking for anything serious, I'm looking for something fun.


I don't want the fights to be harder, I want them to be satisfying.

Don't know why you thought you'd get any of that form LFR

[Gurushock]

Honestly, I don't think it was bad. Was to some type of end game? No. Was it kind of fun for an event? Yes. I thought the LK part was the best, porting into the Lich King and him dropping defile on the group and everyone not remembering, the fact that it spread so fast and wiped the group was kind of a walk up call for all of us who did the fight back in the day. I thought that was pretty cool, nothing to crazy, yet cool. Also I got a crazy TF piece of gear on my DK and it was an upgrade, something I thought I was done getting for now, so hard to complain about that xD