Normal/Savage Alexander complaint

[Fendred]

So, having come back to see what kind of stuff I write when I've suffered insomnia for several days, I think I'll pretend I didn't post that stuff and just look the other way.

They were trying to implement multiple raid difficulties as directed by player feedback over a year ago. The primary example given was World of Warcraft's "Wrath of the Lich King" expansion raid setup, where several different difficulties for current raids were introduced. What they seem to have missed was that these raids had loot independent of one another and required the same level of gear for entry. The idea wasn't to create a situation where players would have to mindlessly grind the lower difficulty tiers for drops in order to do the higher difficulty levels of the same raid. If Alexander were set up like a proper WotLK raid, players could totally ignore the normal mode and only do savage. Additionally, they didn't do loot the same way, but that's been talked about to death.

Another point of view would be they are responding to players who feel they don't like the lockouts, but failed to realize the reason people want the lockouts gone is so they can progress faster. All they did here was allow players to run the instance more, but make no discernible difference in progression from the raid and raid loot system that came before it.

[Nadirah]

Snip.

If they were going with the Wrath of the Lich King model, there's be a 10 and 25 man version of each instance, and a heroic version of each raid size, so if you wanted to max your tokens each week you needed to raid all farking four of them.

And people think they're sick of seeing a raid boss *now*? If i see Anub'Arak again at any time it'll still be too soon.

[dejavutwo]

If they were going with the Wrath of the Lich King model, there's be a 10 and 25 man version of each instance, and a heroic version of each raid size, so if you wanted to max your tokens each week you needed to raid all farking four of them.

And people think they're sick of seeing a raid boss *now*? If i see Anub'Arak again at any time it'll still be too soon.

I never felt I had to run the 10-man version for gear since the fights there felt like they were almost entirely execution based as to weather you would pass or not. Here, a piece of gear or two can make a night and day difference on difficulty.