WoW Exposed

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You are comparing the phrase ‘choose not to’ to the experience of pugging a 25 man on, say, Duskwood - Alliance.

That’s not intellectually honest.

You’re ignoring what GearScore, Achievements, and the Dungeon Finder have done to at least some of the realms. You can’t simply ‘choose to’ pick up a functional raid with anything close to a guarantee of participation, let alone success. The selection of good players that are also decent raiders has plummeted to near zero. The number of raid leaders who are willing to put raids together is diminishing daily, and those will typically only want those raiders who have already done the content multiple times. This further limits the possibilities.

The concepts of what you are saying check out, but to make this sort of statement implies you’re not actually trying to do what you’re advocating people do. Please test it and get back to us with your experiences.

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Crygil wrote:

I’ve PuG’ed my way to Putricide in 25-person content. I did have to talk my way in, as I did not previously have the achievement for the first wing encounters.

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Odd fact, funny story…funny fact, odd story…Anything really.

I’ll go first.

I got the [Going Down] achievement by accidentally falling off Dalaran. I freaked out and hit all my "oh crap" buttons. I survived with no damage taken and a nice little achievement. I freaked me out because I thought you still took fall damage through bubles.

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Crygil wrote:

I’m 42′ 7" tall, with a slim 78 ton chassis. My proper name is XM-017-cgl. I’m a Virgo, who likes long walks in hellfire (the substance not the peninsula) and I enjoy the company of Dwarves and Tauren.

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And couldn’t a modified or alternate version of "Invincible" be made available in the 10-man version that would distinguish it from the 25-man, thus maintaining the "awe" associated with the 25-man version (see, i.e., Black v. Twilight Drake; Plagued v. Black Proto-Drake; Rusted v. Iron Proto-Drake)?

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Crygil wrote:

There are other plans in motion on that front and we are not at liberty to discuss them yet.

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But doesn’t that mean that you are concerned that the 10-man heroic version of the fight would be (all things relative, of course) "easy" for a group of 10 raiders who are geared for 25-man content? Isn’t there a reasonable way to tune the fight such that the difficulty of the fight is not overcome by simply having better gear

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As for whether or not we are concerned about the possibility of 25-person geared players heading in to the 10-person Heroic and potentially trivializing the encounter…

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Bornakk wrote:

Just ‘lust.

The first issue has already gone out and we announced it on the 25th. If you haven’t received your issue, I’d suggest following up with Future’s customer service and checking on your account.

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Nethaera wrote:

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