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• • Most achievements fell in one to three days

  • Originally posted by pandrax
    

    Originally posted by Sharajat
    

    WoW's difficulty level has been a constant see-saw.  If you believe otherwise, you are ignorant of WoW's history.

    Original Raid content: Bizzarely easy.  Engame Raid: UBRS.  Scholomance, Stratholme consisted of lesser endgame content, 10 man instances.  Could be handled by most groups as 8 man, and good groups could do it 5 man pretty easy.  Even UBRS, the 'ultimate' instance, was nothing special.

    Molten Core/Ony: The addition of 40 man content.  Originally tough, mainly because guilds used to small instance runs had to adapt to 40 man.  Poorly designed, and frankly 20 of the people in your group were bench warmers.  Onyxia was the worst, and was eventually taken down by 3 people at level 60 (an absurdly easy encounter). 

    BWL/AQ  - A new, interesting level of design.  WoW got a lot harder, a lot faster.  A level of coordination is required. 

    Naxx - highest difficulty level (perhaps we should say absurd). 

    TBC: Original content: Pretty easy.  Kara was honestly not much of a challenge.  Gruul and Mags, as originally launched, were quite amazingly buggy.  They were nerfed, although it's questionable if that's a difficulty thing or a bug fix thing.

    TK/SSC - a high level of challenge.  TK was very well balanced, though SSC had some issues (to quote the guild that downed Vashj, the entire encounter was impossible - it was entirely luck based, and if you performed perfectly (i.e. no mistakes at any point) you had a 15-20% chance of winning, based entirely on factors outside your control (who she mind controlled and killed).  

    BT/Hyjal - difficulty was medium, generally similar in level to TK/SSC.

    Sunwell - one of the best designed instances in the game.  Considered very very challenging, and very difficult.

    Naxxramus - reportedly quite easy for experienced raiding guilds. 

     

     

    Based on this, do you think we're on the Molten Core/Kara stage of the cycle?  

    What you just described is not "see-sawing" it's called progression. I'm not quite sure you fully understand the concept so i'll try to explain.

     

     Beginner dungeons are considered "entry level" which will help funnel players into the harder raids by giving them experience and gear to progress to the next tier. So if this logic were to be put into Wow, it would obviously look exactly as you just wrote it.

    Vanilla: MC>Ony>BWL.AQ>Naxx

    TBC: Kara>Mag/other guy(forgot name)>SSC/TK>Hyjal>BT>Sunwell

    Wrath: Naxx> and so on.

    So by using this logic, whenever a new expansion comes out they reset the challenge level of the entry level raid allowing players to gear up and expand their knowledge to prepare for the next tier. It's almost exactly how EQ and EQ do their raid system. It's nothing new and it's definitely not "see-sawing", it's progression.

     

    You give fish lectures on swimming too, right?

  • Posted: 12/01/08 9:23 AM
    World of Warcraft
• • Secret Quest: The Path of the Christian Gnostics

  • Originally posted by MarleVVLL 

    @ Wharmater: My point wasn't to dog on people, my point was to serve people. Just because someone 'prays' to a 'god' doesn't mean that the prayers are effective or even heard for that matter. For the prayer to matter, that god must REALLY in REAL time exist and have interest in the person praying and the content of the prayer. Just to make up a god and pray to it is ultimately a waste of time. People need to find the TRUE and LIVING God, of which I believe the Bible points to :-) thats all.

    Now why is the Christian God the True and Living God, instead of the Hindu Gods or something?  

  • Posted: 12/01/08 9:20 AM
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• • The truth about WoW: for anyone thinking about trying it

  • Originally posted by Vistaakah
    

    
    

    Good summary but you can't say WOW was polished at release. They've had 4 plus years of people losing a day a week to play do to scheduled maintenance to clean it up. No other game in my MMO history has had so much downtime for scheduled maintenance.

    I just want to laugh here.  You claim to have played the game too.  Either this statement is a bald-faced lie, or your statement on ever having played the game is a bald-faced lie.

  • Posted: 12/01/08 8:59 AM
    World of Warcraft
• • So, this is what everyone keeps telling me why I should come back to WoW

  • Please don't come back.  Trust me, the idiot population, though severely overstated in this forum, is quite high, and adding to the numbers adds nothing.

    If you do come back, please avoid my server.

  • Posted: 12/01/08 8:53 AM
    World of Warcraft
• • Your Worst Dating Moment..

  • Not sure if its a dating moment, but there's nothing like going to the movies with a bunch of friends and having one of them say something totally insensitive that also exactly reminds your girlfriend of her aunt's suicide so she has to take me aside because she's breaking down in tears (FYI, she found the body (and she had been dead for several days) so this was not exactly a minor trauma). 

  • Posted: 11/28/08 11:30 PM
    General Discussion