Mar 9
Blizzard’s Questionable Decisions
Tobold has a piece pondering the revamping of several high-end dungeons as 5 and 10 man instances. By restricting more than five folks from entering places like Blackrock Depths, it’s going to make them much more of a challenge. Tobolds worries (quick logically I think) that this is going to put off casual players who may not have the gear to hold their own or the connections to do more than a pick-up group. A PUG in BRD sounds like a really time consuming way to die over and over again.
In another ‘huh?’ moment, Blizzard has apparently stuck it to the pirates. Fans of the Bloodsail Buccaneers won’t be able to upgrade their shiny armor set pieces because the quest to do so starts in a goblin town. Goblins, the natural enemy of the pirate in World of Warcraft.
These aren’t so much poorly thought-out decisions as they are decisions with somewhat narrow vision. Course, I play a paladin so I’m not really one to talk.
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I agree with Blizzard making a way for us to upgrade that Tier 0 armor I really don’t like the length and difficulty of the quests to do so. The early reports are that these quests will take several hours to complete… more than it takes to raid MC. And thats just for a single upgrade which is really not that much better.
Blizzard just hates casual players. A casual player has to spend 3x the amount of time in game to get the same (often lesser) reward as a hardcore raider. Its fucking stupid.
On the subject of changing the dungeons… I actually think this is a boon to casual players. I’ve always believed in dungeons being hardcapped at 5-10 man groups. There should have never been any group sizes above 10 people.
10 player raids were just way way to easy and rewarded you for being a slack ass. Just the way Molten Core and even BWL are becoming… where 10 people in the raid can /afk and come back for loot rolls. Blizzard needs to reward challenge and not # of people involved.
So yes there won’t be 10 player raids into these places anymore, but there is plenty of casual gamers that know how these places work. It will take a little bit of learning by the more hardcore players, but that new knowledge of how to do these dungeons with fewer people will trickle down.
I know I can get 4 friends online a hell of a lot easier tha 39… and I would guess that most other people can also.