Originally Posted by
kamran
Yes game has been dumbed down, its just a fact.
-Outdoor elite mobs : deleted
-Failsafe talent trees
-Your rotation is in your spellbook
-Boss mechanics are in dungeon journal
-You can solo instances that are at your level or higher than your level depending on class
-Its impossible to die to 2 mobs while you could die to that before
-You dont need to socialize to do stuff, socials skills are only relevant for very high level of gaming
-You get your mounts for a very low price and faster than before
-You can get gold very easily even if you dont understand shit to the AH
-Raids are cleaned faster than before, even on heroic mode
-Dungeons are a faceroll aoe fest even at highest level
-CC is inexistant in dungeons and totally useless
-Being a good or a bad tank is the same thing, just mash aoe button and its ok, whereas tanking was hard when you couldn't AOE
Well the only argument wow fanboys will tell you is
-Heroics and challenge modes are harder
Well let me tell you this
Heroics and challenges modes are a low % of the game content. Basically everything is dumbed down to mentally challenged level except those two things (PVP is another matter). CHallenge isnt that difficult either, you can do it with 4ppl you know.
Well on the heroicraid matter. YOu know players were a lot worse back then right? We had very few theorycrafting, very few boss guides, horrible items, horrible gearing progression (2 loots for 40ppl each boss?). So yea MC was basically very easy mechanics-wise, but it took a LOT more time to clean it than to clean a heroic raid. Hell my memory might be inexact but I have the feeling I raided that instance for 5+months before killing rag. Killing heroic nefa ? Idk i think it was 6 weeks?
Then people always laugh at MC mechanics, but .. you know it wasnt the only pre-bc raid right? Altho bwl had loot pinata bosses (the drakes..), vael, razorgore, chromma or nefa were tough as hell, hence why vael was named the guild breaker. Well anyway you didnt play Vanilla so , too bad for you really, you missed the best video game ever made. But its not my problem.
So, to sum up.
Game has been dumbed down.
Heroic raid or challenge mode dont change that fact.
Game was better during pre-bc and tbc, if you dont agree : 1/you didnt play back then 2/you were one of the guys that didnt raid because you were useless
I still enjoy PVP and running old content with twinks so I still play the game nonetheless.