Alexander Normal difficulty...

[Zumi]

People beat FCoB in the first week it was out. So they were probably like, yea we need this to be harder so that doesn't happen again.

[Illya]

People beat FCoB in the first week it was out. So they were probably like, yea we need this to be harder so that doesn't happen again.

This is stupid, there's a reason Blizzard doesn't care about when world-first teams clear content. Because 20 people out of 10 million people who play WoW literally do not mean anything when designing content. I can't believe that Yoshi and his crew could be that stupid, the story goes that Yoshi has played WoW and knows how that works. He's also probably aware of how Wildstar crashed and burned after launch too, or I would imagine he is.

If they are really going to push the "casual core" and "midcore", you know, the people who raid only 1-2 times a week and don't live their entire lives in the database, into the bucket that holds the non-raiders with Alexander HM difficulty they are not going to like what happens to sub numbers after the first month of Heavensward after everyone has facerolled their way through Alexander NM and 99.995% of players have nothing to do because Alex HM is now only for the people who do Mythic raiding in WoW. Blizzard hasn't added multiple difficulty levels between faceroll and impossible in WoW raids just for the hell of it.

[Lyrinn]

after everyone has facerolled their way through Alexander NM and 99.995% of players have nothing to do because Alex HM is now only for the people who do Mythic raiding in WoW.

Who said NM would be faceroll? Majority of players still can't clear or consistently farm FCoB in pugs and even more can't do it without being in full i130 on top of echo. If we're talking about FCoB + Echo levels of difficulty and not LotA/ST/WoD, then it will be geared towards the middle group.

[Viridiana]

Who said NM would be faceroll? Majority of players still can't clear or consistently farm FCoB in pugs and even more can't do it without being in full i130 on top of echo. If we're talking about FCoB + Echo levels of difficulty and not LotA/ST/WoD, then it will be geared towards the middle group.

A disconcerting number of people still can't do steps of faith or WoD in pugs, despite both encounters being ridiculously easy. Whether or not this game's pugs can clear something is no indication of actual difficulty. >_>