Last edited by Crashdummy; 2013-03-07 at 01:36 PM.
Because getting the same patch over and over, and over again is not interesting, it's not impressive. It's always ''A raid, more daily quests, and some gear and changes'' It's nothing new, we get these kind of patches all the time.
It was impressive in the start with the few first patches giving these things, but now? No, at least not to me, at least not when other MMOs get things out faster, with even better quality.
TBC had more dungeons from launch. Wrath and Cata never launched two major patches without a new dungeon.
I dont go on lie every patch should have a new dungeons, the problem is that we have got TWO major patches without new dungeons already. And in BOTH of those patches they gave us dailies.
So i think if they didnt have enough time for all in this patch, they should have given us new deungons and NOT dailies, with the new dungeons dropping items of the same ilvl that dailies are giving us in 5.2 (496) because we already got dailies in 5.1, this patch was the dungeons turn.
Last edited by Crashdummy; 2013-03-07 at 01:54 PM.
I absolutely love this patch so far!
Yea it makes no sense. It's like they weren't confident in their ability to release patches faster so they had to give all this grind and all these gates. If they were sincere about releasing patches faster than all this slow wasn't necessary. The gate for lfr is 6 weeks. Not even in my wildest fucking dreams in this reward model would I expect to get everything or even 50% of everything I wanted out of that instance. I'd have a greater chance of spontaneously combusting. I think they went over board and I'm hoping they realize this.
The game didn't have anything else to do other than dailies and LFR in 5.1. So in 5.2 they gave us more dailies? No sense of progression, just jurrasic park. Faceroll mobs that can't dmg 1% of your hp, all those quest mobs feel like trainning dummies.
so why do you play this game? didn't you know we quest over and over again for 8 years now?, or that we raid over and over again for 8 years now? or that we pvp over and over again? WTF did you people expect, new coming of christ or something?
I can tell you right now, 5.3 and 5.4 will be about the same, like it or leave it.
I think the staggered release is the only thing making LFR less mandatory. If I were still playing, and was making reasonable progress in normal modes, I'd probably skip grinding LFR for gear upgrades. If the whole zone was available on day 1 though, I'd probably be ostracized for not doing it.
I think they partially realized it, hence the small backpedal on the release dates. Here's to hoping they get their heads out of their asses, or the next quarter's going to be looking shitty.
You do realize this is why people are complaining? Or are you just being facetious?
Where were you when raids like SWP and ICC were gated
Active WoW player Jan 2006 - Aug 2020
Occasional WoW Classic Andy since.
Nothing lasts forever, as they say.
But at least I can casually play Classic and remember when MMORPGs were good.
Who says LFR isn't ready now ? They've stated their reasons for not releasing LFR this week and it wasn't because it wasn't ready. It's to give peopel a chance to at least beat normal mode without having already seen all the bosses because that takes way the epicness of the actual proper raid. Have you forgotten how LFR was released in the previous tier already ?
Possibly. I'm not convinced of that. The reality is that for most guilds 6 weeks probably isn't enough to get through the entire instance. Even for guilds that do manage this they aren't likely to have all their raiders decked out in full normal gear or anywhere near that so the boost from lfr still helps. Even if it were true that the gating is really so people don't feel compelled then I would still argue that theirs nothing stopping Blizzard from releasing even just one wing, or just one boss hell. It's really a minor thing but it makes all the difference for someone running lfr. It gives them something to look forward to on patch day.
I'm not asking for all of it on day one honest. I recognize it would be pretty shitty for you guys doing normals to have to also run lfr. Well alright I take that back. I don't think it would be shitty. I think to an extent it would be like wotlk where there were 25 and 10 man raids. I understand that was a pain in the ass for some of you guys though so alright no full raid on patch day. I've accepted that. Why can't I get a taste though?
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In those raids on the days they came out. At the time I was raiding and I ran with 25 man pugs on the weekends. I'd love to be in the raid this week. As an lfr raider it's not going to happen for me.
Last edited by Leonard McCoy; 2013-03-07 at 03:44 PM.
Roleplaying. I solely play World of Warcraft because of friends and roleplay.
I already know the future patches will probably be the same all over again, but that just makes me sad. Not sad for myself, but for what Blizzard actually could create with this game, but giving the same things over and over must be really, really stale for them as well.
It's not about making the game into something completely different, but it's time to actually do something with it instead of giving out the same stale content over, and over again. Blizzard got so much money, and they had so many wild ideas in the past.
If we talk about the April Fools jokes they always create each year, to me, that seems to be something Blizzard actually wants to do, but they scrap it all the time.
Except Pandaren.
Last edited by mmoc6e23abdef8; 2013-03-07 at 04:10 PM.
I don't get it.
LFR is done and shipped, we just have to wait a week to unlock it.
As for "the daily grind", I'm not sure what you're looking for. Would you rather have a quest chain that can only be done once before you go back to running around in circles in Ogrimmar/SW?
In addition to a raid, there is a new scenario, new rare spawns, summoning events you can participate in...
Cataclysm was an absolute disaster for max leveled characters because there was nothing to do. Now that there is stuff to do, the game is still, "so boring"?
If you can't find interest in new content THREE DAYS after it is released, perhaps it's time to unsub and go find something else to keep you busy.
Quite the opposite.
This game has turned form a dungeon crawling game we loved to a daily farming crap we dont. We want our game back, we want our dungeons, we want to be HEROES, not just make stupid pointless tasks.
You people seems to be talking like WoW has had it focus on dailies since Vanilla, which is wrong. Daily focus came in MoP, and to do so they destroyed the core of the game, which always was dungeoning.
We want our dungeon based game again.
The specific issue with dungeons, is that they obselete all content that rewards gear weaker than the gear it contains. If they added new dungeons with 492 gear, it would make all 5.0 raids pointless, since you can run a dungeon via the finder without restraint. Compared to raids where you are limited to 1 a week. They wanted to avoid thiss issue so they simply didnt add dungeons this time around, I'd like to see new ones, but they have to give them a proper place.