Thursday, October 23

God like!

That's what we are dealing with currently... we all feel like gods, superheroes if that's more your thing... we're so bloody overpowered and Outland's content has been downranked so bad that without any challenge you do the things which were challenging before.
People are pugging Gruul now and by pure force they kill the boss in recordtime, not slowed down in any bit by lack of knowledge, experience or even skill.
Suddenly every guy and gal in greens can go cause havoc in Karazhan and see content they never had dreamed of seeing... it's a good thing i guess and it might even gear out a few people before the expansion.
Quite genius of Blizzard actually giving us a short time to feel allmighty and maximise raidprogress for a couple of weeks, luring people back in before the next phase. Our guild had just killed the Twins pre-nerf and after the nerf they killed M'uru in Sunwell plateau on their first night on him, a boss which is considered to be one of the harder ones arround.
Ow and they expect to kill Kil'jaeden shortly after aswell.... cool? Well, it's fun to see those bosses but this is just plain retarted. Someone asked in guildchat if there was any trash before KJ and when i answered "M'uru" i got nothing like reactions like "So true".

Unstoppable!
It's like playing a game and then tying IDDQD or FUND and finishing the game in EZ mode... great fun but you will finish it in no time and then what?
I've got a rule to not use cheatmode on any game i intend to play for a longer period of time and/or on which i spend cash on. When renting a game for example using some sort of code to make it easier then normal (if required) so i can finish it in a weekend to see throught the whole game would be an option though.
But Wow? I intend to play that a bit longer, for the same reason i don't try out play on a private server where i get decked out in the best gear instantly as it will be a set back when returning to the official servers, i'm afraid that i won't be driven to reach that goal anymore if i already had it.

Truth said, Blizzard has implented this quite well. With just a few weeks guilds are able to progress through this "old" content to see as much as possible before leaving it behind for the better stuff. That is, if they offer new challenges and won't make it too easy in Northrend either. (and i do feel it's slightly too easy when i played the beta a bit)
Tuning aint final now anyway and apart from Blizz making general content a bit easier (due to their casual plan) i do expect they will make sure there is a nice balance in the somewhat higher raidcontent. Once 80 the raidguilds will likely storm through Naxx which is not a problem actually, if they just slowly remove our god mode to a somewhat more realistic level so we can make slow progress but don't run through content like the headless chickens we currently are.
Headless is the keyword here i think, when gathering for SWP earlier this week there were actually people standing outside looking for a pug raid in green/blue gear (maybe a few wellfare epics).
If people geared like that think they can do endgame content, something is seriously unballanced.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But Wow? I intend to play that a bit longer, for the same reason i don't try out play on a private server where i get decked out in the best gear instantly as it will be a set back when returning to the official servers, i'm afraid that i won't be driven to reach that goal anymore if i already had it.

i am currently trying WOW with no mods at all to try and keep it interesting, so far it's working