Originally Posted by
fizzloges
Warlords of draenor is a wonderful expansion to the game, beautiful landscapes, close to endless supply of new quests, items, achievements, challenges, secrets and other activities... yet everything feels so boring and easy, why is that?
One of the main reasons is due to sites like MMO-champion unfortunately. Too much information is availible to everyone, it's like playing games while tabbing out to see what the play-through guide tells you what to do.
Everything new and exciting is spoiled weeks or even months in advance. When a new raid is out you are expected to have full knowledge of all the phases of all the fights before setting your foot into the instance. If you don't like spoilers and decide to venture into the new raid without reading up and/or watching tutorials of the encounters, the raid leader will just tell you to get the fuck out of his raid.
I enjoy to play adventure games like monkey island but if you get stuck for several hours you might check online for the solution, but the next time you get stuck you might only try for half an hour before checking the solution and later on you might just keep the guide on the 2nd screen so you can get to the end of the game and be done with it.
The same applies to wow, the game is far from easy, the game is pretty damn hard even. However the constant use of a walk-though guide will make the game feel dumb and easy. "Okay this vendor wants me to find a blueprint before I can buy this upgrade for my awesome epic battleship. Hmm it was last seen outside of the hellfire citadel. Sweet, I should venture there and start looking for it.. but alas, if I do that then maybe it will take too long to find it and I will fall behind everyone else on my legendary quest and then my damage output will suffer and I might not be able to join the raid group later on, ah well screw that I'll just check wowhead and be done with it... Okay now I got the blueprint and what should I do now? damnit I have nothing more to do now, why is this game so easy and stupid, why oh why did Blizzard have to create such a nobrainer expansion with no content whatsoever :/"
There is only new content for a select few people nowadays and that's for the top 20 or so mythic raid guilds world wide. They venture into the dark, not knowing the optimal strategy to defeat the encounter so they have to test different strategies and succeed by trial and error. If you fall behind then you can check the Method kill vids that they release after X guilds completes a boss and if you are struggling with the boss and not checking the kill vid, then get the fuck out of the raid scrub.