Originally Posted by
Aleom
Here's my issue with this nerf. It's not a nerf to Hardmodes, so Dragonslayer Aleom here doesn't care one bit about the nerf itself. The problem is that this directly impacts the LEGENDARY weapon in Firelands.
Originally, the Legendary weapon was going to only be available to guilds that have cleared all of current T11 content, this meant being 13/13 HM. Only then would your guild have access to the Legendary weapon. However, they decided against this idea, and then changed it so that it could only be available to guilds that had fully cleared normal modes. I figured well that's definitely more than enough for almost any guild to accomplish, so the prize and rarity of the Legendary has gone down a little bit, but that's only a status thing...I can live with that if I have to.
Then, on top of making the Legendary come for anyone who has rolled through normal modes, they also decrease the difficulty of Normal Modes by a sweeping 20%. THIS is too excessive. Had they Nerfed normal modes, but STILL kept the Legendary staffs lockout only available to Hard Mode guilds, I would be okay with this. This would STILL make the guilds that want to EARN a legendary have to do all the encounters on hard mode, which still maintain their current level of difficulty. And the normal modes being turned into easy modes would allow them to gear up faster to do it.
I don't care about the Nerfs themselves I care about the consequences it has as far as the Legendary staffs availability.