lol OP is hilarious
A better way to think about Casual v Hardcore: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...asual-Hardcore
It was pretty dang unified the only people against being able to easily swap were those who wanted to punish "elitists" and barely played the game.
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Man I wish that was a thing in wow also badges need badges back for gear because sometimes rng just hates you.
I have some hope for Blizzard when they:
1) Don't add a new arbitrarily restrictive or pain in the ass system in 9.2
2) Don't add a new arbitrarily restrictive or pain in the ass system in 9.3
3) Don't add a new arbitrarily restrictive or pain in the ass system in 10.0
4) Don't ignore good criticism and requests for improvement for one of those 3 (or all) systems and then launch with them the way they were announced
5) Proceed to "fix" the mess they made with the system in the first place 2 patches later
In what world are they catering to the 5%? Top end raiders hate the system upon system upon system believe it or not most high end raiders only want to do prog then raid log. They don't want to spend 15 hours a day the week before prog grinding the latest daily zone or make multiple of the same class to combat shard drop rng.
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You could clear heroic without covenants it isn't hard past the first week. Systemlands is not a good expansion 9.1.5 has the potential to make it semi decent but it shouldn't have taken a year to get here when we provided copious amounts of feedback during alpha and beta.
A better way to think about Casual v Hardcore: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...asual-Hardcore
There's also the fact that this has been happening for quite a while. If we want to be nice, we can say "since Legion" - sure, they have been ignoring feedback for far longer than (especially on WoW EU forums, which were completely neglected by devs since the very beginning), but it has become incredibly blatant in the last few years.
What's funny is that Shadowlands alpha/beta didn't seem that bad in the beginning. Yeah, sure, covenants were a terrible idea, but it did seem like they were listening to some feedback about other things. Unfortunately, this has stopped rather quickly, their stance on ripcord remained unchanged and we got the product that was, once again, much inferior to what could have been.
I suppose that one "good" thing about this is that we're getting the changes we wanted in 9.1.5 instead of 9.3 or something. On the other hand, with first major patch being delayed and no one knowing if were even getting 9.3, this might not actually be all that "early". Plus the blue post is still defending their initial approach to covenants, so... yeah. They still think they had a great idea - it's just that players have been whining too much to appreciate it. Makes me almost certain they will repeat the same mistakes in next expansion.
Last edited by KaPe; 2021-08-31 at 05:35 PM.