Any particular bosses you have in mind here?

 

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Here's the paradox. Getting to 85 was cake!! Getting things done once you're 85 is not so tasty. I wish that they had made it a bit more challenging to hit 85 for the new content.

 

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Rahj does it with his stupid hopping.

I read (all of it) and heard ...

"Go suck it newbs! I hope you all die standing in teh fire."

On a serious note, I trust the opinions of the established WoW podcasters' opinions over 99% of the forum opinions out there. Basically, the valid opinion is that WoW is easy (even heroics) with correctly geared, competent players.

 

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Man, talk about neutering a spec...odd how this comes only a day or two after we see Survival hunters obliterating dps charts in raids.

 

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It's funny how GC made such a long post to defend their design principles, and then follow up with every possible nerfs to heroic instance shortly after

 

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No. If you were killed by the worm when he's underground, you were NOT doing everything fine.
And of course, why am I not surprised that people blame the game instead of their inability to not stand in the fire...

Other groups kill the worm just fine. We killed him many times just fine. I guess someone must indeed doing "everything fine".

But don't worry, nerfs are coming, so every incompetent player can just faceroll his daily valor points, just like in WotLK, and stand on the mailbox with his epics.

 

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Having read GC's comments, along with the posts here, I think that they still don't address a key issue very well. I'm talking about talent specs. True, some are better for soloing, while some are good for groups, but the problem I see is that you're still pretty much forced to spec into a cookie cutter design, and have to get the same exact gear/enchants/buffs as everyone else, and perform the same exact way each time.

So when GC said "if the healer's running out of mana, then your DPS sucks", he was implying that "your class should only be one spec, and you should only be using certain spells/abilities. No ifs, ands, or buts about it, STFU and L2Play". Which makes running dungeons incredibly monotonous for me, because you'll eventually learn that a boss needs X amount of DPS on it in order to beat it. So while I like that a druid, warrior, DK, or paladin can tank for the group, once they're in that role, their job is all the same, make sure the mobs beat on you instead of your group. Which isn't bad in of itself, but you don't have much flexibility to change game plan, you pretty much just "kill this patrol here, pull boss to this area, watch out for his sneaky moves, repeat".

I wish that they developed the bosses in a way that there were multiple ways of beating them, rather than just "wail on them, CC their adds, and then run out of range/LOS if they start doing a super nuke spell/attack". Like maybe have his minions drop a spear that knocks a chunk out of their hp, or they drop a shielding item that helps mitigate their super bonus damage attack. Or maybe a super medkit that restores a portion of mana/health for players. Sure, you could still whittle them down if you wanted, but you could have alternatives to either speed up the fight, or increase survivability so that players stand a chance instead of just "if the healer runs oom, you're screwed period".

Or maybe that boss suffers extra damage from fire or arcane based attacks, and switches what he's weak/strong against mid-fight. So while any attacks/spells hurt him, a fire mage may be able to do extra damage to them at times, and other times just does normal fire damage. This way if you didn't bring the "ideal" group, then you could at least stand a chance of beating it, rather than wiping 10 times in a row even if your geared for it.

Whatever GC, your entire idea of challenge is nerfing healers efficiency to 25%, having mobs do gratuitous group damage, mobs whose damage is 360, mobs if you interrupt them simply start casting again, mobs you cannot interrupt, etc, etc. In other words, take a player ability to manage a mob and make it not effective.

This is not fun. Even in my large guild we only have two healers who will do heroics, and we peak with over thirty online at a time. All the rest are leveling alts. Hell, even the tanks are doing that, rerolling to alts. The idea is, wait till the next tier of gear comes out, saving your points, then go for heroics. Perhaps by then Blizzard will get a clue that spending over an hour for a pittance in points is not fun.

 

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