Damn how do you get your head through the door? You ego is overtaking the National Debt.

 

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QFT.

Also, why bother responding, his ego won't let him back down.

 

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I hope he doesn't stop responding personally, it's fun watching the train wreck of Korrigan. The funniest part is he's not even trolling, he really believes the crap he posts.

 

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I kind of agree with Korrigan to some extent.

Raids were just as hard at the beginning of wrath.
I don't think the problem is necessarily with the raid difficulty.
I think the problem is with the suck that is regular and heroic dungeons.

I personally think everything would have gone much smoother if,

1) More lvl 85 regular dungeons to do
2) All heroics and regular dungeons were shorter so people could actually queue and finish in under 2 hours.
(not an issue if you have people with gear doing them)
3) Better loot lists, so people would feel like that actually have a chance to get something useful from a run
4) Heroics with gradient difficult levels and matching gear requirements
in other words entry level heroics requiring a lower avg item level than current that are easier to do.

I think right now a lot of the problem is regulars are looong and boring, and heroics are a pain in the arse. If regulars and heroics were more viable/fun to do without requiring a huge chunk of time, I think more people would actually do them.

People want to get the hell out of regulars as quickly as possible, because the rewards are suck, there is no variety at 85, and they still take too long once you add in queue times. So people do whatever they can to make themselves eligible for heroics including wearing PvP gear or spec inappropriate gear.

People want to get the hell of heroics as quickly as possible, because the rewards vs. effort is suck, they take too long once you add in queue times, you have all these people from above improperly geared screwing things up... at which point everyone gets frustrated, name calling cursing vote kicking and rage quitting. So guess what? These people want to start raiding as soon as possible so they get the bare minimum gear(if they even bother) and now are in your pug raids screwing shit up.

I think if they fixed the problems with regulars and heroics, you would see somewhat less of a rush to get into raids and maybe more people actually gearing up properly.

Maybe it's just me... But heroics take too long for me to do on weekdays now(and it feels like I get very little for my time spent), and I would prefer to spend weekends raiding. In wrath I could easily do both, but now I'm stuck maybe running a couple fail heroics on weekends usually.

To the opposite, I actually believe that if I can do it, everybody can, specially players posting here who are veteran MMO gamers. I agree Bastion of Trash... err Twilight can be more annoying, but Blackwing Descent is no harder than Naxxramas in WotLK. Specially not in 10 man. And it's a damned nicely designed instance, too.



Well, in my own experience, heroics were hard at the beginning (as they should be... or they wouldn't be heroic). Remember wiping in Halls of Lightning, Occulus, Utgarde Pinacle? I do. Right now, even with a half PUG group, they have become way easier. People have geared up, and also learned how to manage those new dungeons. As I said, we ran Stonecore in approx. 30 minutes. I don't think HoL or UP were any shorter back then.

Could some be shorter? I think so. Notably Deadmines. Maybe Blizzard could work on them and remove some of the trash groups to make the runs faster and make people focus on bosses instead. Maybe Blizzard could monitor the time it takes the "average" PUG to run each heroic, and then remove some of the unneeded trash to make those which are "too long" shorter. While they are at it, they can also remove some unneeded trash in Bastion of Twilight... after the first couple of runs, it's no longer "hard", it's annoying and boring. If there's a problem with dungeons and raids in cataclyms, then it's the abundance of trash mobs. That's why BWD is so nice btw, there's only very little trash, so even casual family guilds can very quickly get to the bosses and do the "serious" stuff instead of wasting ages clearing trash. BWD was designed with the casual in mind, quick to action, no time wasting, and thankfully you can get 4/5 set gear (2 set bonuses) without ever entering BoT if you don't want to.

 

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