Comments on Life of a Nin: On Boredom

I am not really a high end raider at the moment (m...

2008-11-26T13:24:00.000Z

I am not really a high end raider at the moment (most of my gear is blue from quests or instances now). I really don't object to their being a gradient of difficulty with parts of the game being a literal cake walk to others that make you want to hurt the Blizzard employee who thought up the "rand(selectPlayerWhoLags())" function (since the game seems to pick the laggiest player for the most complex task :)).

What I really object to is the simple fact that we get to 80, and there is no point in hitting the level 80 dungeons, you just go straight to heroics. The correct order in TBC was Early Kara -> Heroics -> Mid Kara -> Heroics -> Late Kara, and it was nice, there were many instances you had to use cc and suchlike on, one mistake and you wipe isn't much fun, but some level of skill is fun (such as needing cc).

Urrgh, I suppose I am going to run em anyway for the badgers, but the feel of challenge is gone, I missed having to work up to a heroic then getting the feeling of ease as your gear progressed (which was the major problem in tbc, until 2.3 there wasn't a non-raid path to gear).

I agree with Gregory.I am not a high end raider.I ...

2008-11-25T18:28:00.000Z

I agree with Gregory.

I am not a high end raider.
I spent months hating and loathing "heroics" in BC, because of the monstrous jump in difficulty between regular dungeons and heroics. "You make one mistake and you wipe" was not fun for me.

They did finally get easier after our group got fitted out in Kara gear, but I'll be happy if Wrath heroics aren't as punishing as BC heroics were.

pI think what you are experiencing is the impact o...

2008-11-25T17:26:00.000Z

pI think what you are experiencing is the impact of a higher end raider confronting Blizzard's decision to make the raiding cycle more accessible earlier. They've made a conscious choice to get more people seeing more of the content earlier. You'll probably be more "comfortable" once you get into the later 10 man and the 25 man raids and feel more like you're in the zone you expect to be in.