There has a been a real lack of Argus related "leaks" this time around I feel like. Can't recall seeing a single one actually, even as a joke.
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World of Warcraft |OT7| Feel the hatred of 10,000 Murlocs
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There has a been a real lack of Argus related "leaks" this time around I feel like. Can't recall seeing a single one actually, even as a joke.
No thanks, I like the current setup alright. Still not sure if I take a raiding break next expac though
xrayregime
Member
They'll tweak it for sure - they've done it every expansion - but I do believe they prefer the mythic vs. flex more than some of the other raiding paradigms in the past.
I was just curious. The only adjustment I'd like to see them make is have it only be the following difficulties:
LFR
Flex Normal
20 Man Heroic
Having Flex Normal and Heroic seemed redundant. Just have the bosses scale up in difficulty appropriately in normal mode so it feels like a good accomplishment to clear through it.
LFR
Flex Normal
20 Man Heroic
Having Flex Normal and Heroic seemed redundant. Just have the bosses scale up in difficulty appropriately in normal mode so it feels like a good accomplishment to clear through it.
Robin64
Member
I wonder if they'll make crafting a bit meatier again. In the early days, recipes could require all sorts of crazy things. You might to get water from elementals in Desolace for one thing, silk from spiders in Hillsbrad for another, and so on. It got people out in the world, hunting for stuff.
Now you just get [your profession thing] + [current profession tokens] in varying quantities. It's very very boring.
Now you just get [your profession thing] + [current profession tokens] in varying quantities. It's very very boring.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yeah come to think of it I would be fine with that.
I can almost guarantee professions will be better in 7.0. Blizzard knows how people feel about crafting in WoD, and it is not good.
shiftplusone
Member
remove healers
everyone heals themselves
holy/resto now are the only specs with buffs
everyone heals themselves
holy/resto now are the only specs with buffs
Agreed, would love to see that for some of the higher end enchants.
The way garrisons worked with professions were a shit show and mostly made people self-sufficient while at the same time dependent on other professions (i.e. needing herbs to craft gems, wtf?). IF they do garrisons again, you should only have your professions guys available to learn recipes and do dailies or whatever to get the new recipes. Like what they did in Wrath and Cata.
Yeah I agree on the raiding front, I am not a fan of 2 difficulties that are exactly the same mechanically. If they want to stick with 4 difficulties then I'd rather them make normal a bit easier mechanically (probably closer to LFR but with real damage numbers). I feel like it really hasn't hit the casual demographic they want it to hit.
Normal and Heroic really aren't redundant. There's a good audience for both imo
Normal isn't the same mechanically. There are some mechanics that are not present, same as heroic -> mythic
Robin64
Member
2 hours til the actual expansion reveal, though. :\
The current setup seems to make a lot of sense even though it's a lot of difficulties.
LFR: Queue for it, no chance to fail.
Normal: Easily puggable if people know the mechanics. Has some leeway that allows carrying so you can bring some undergeared or unskilled players.
Heroic: Everyone needs to be at the top of their game, you most likely need a guild for this.
Mythic: poopsocks.
The current difficulties cover everyone and allows them to see the content.
If they removed normal then a fuck ton of people wouldn't be able to do much raiding with how hard heroic mode is right now. I'm not sure how hard the current tier is back heroic BRF was insanely hard when it first came out. Progressing through Black Furance and Blackhand felt like mythic bosses.
LFR: Queue for it, no chance to fail.
Normal: Easily puggable if people know the mechanics. Has some leeway that allows carrying so you can bring some undergeared or unskilled players.
Heroic: Everyone needs to be at the top of their game, you most likely need a guild for this.
Mythic: poopsocks.
The current difficulties cover everyone and allows them to see the content.
If they removed normal then a fuck ton of people wouldn't be able to do much raiding with how hard heroic mode is right now. I'm not sure how hard the current tier is back heroic BRF was insanely hard when it first came out. Progressing through Black Furance and Blackhand felt like mythic bosses.
what?
There's 45 minutes of some stuff before the actual reveal. Also according to MMO-Champ, it's 1 hour and 16 minutes before it starts.
ffs
The expansion reveal starts in 1 hour and 16 minutes.
I think the stream might start earlier but not show anything.
Robin64
Member
Go to http://www.blizzgc.com/
Click Schedule. See local time for things.
Or maybe it's not local time, it's German time?
Click Schedule. See local time for things.
Or maybe it's not local time, it's German time?
Doesn't EverQuest have progression servers?
I dunno, it'd be fun to play around on but it wouldn't be something I spend my full WoW gameplay time on.
They got the other games news out of the way over the past two days.
Today's panel is only World of Warcraft, they covered all of their other games in yesterday's panel. They're doing a typical reveal that you would normally see at BlizzCon - hype it up, show the trailer, discuss some of the changes/additions/etc that they're doing for it.
There's a schedule on the GamesCom website.
Today - Expansion reveal
Tomorrow - Heroes of the Storm
Saturday - Overwatch and Legacy of the Void
Sunday - World of Warcraft
Reveal in 1h 10m.
Sadly no, I think they showed off another Player/Class/Hero whatever they're being called. And we got a teaser added to the Battle.net launcher.
Well that's just too far away isn't it
xrayregime
Member
12:45
You sure? Thought it was 12:45?!
Stream starts at noon, then 45 minutes of BS (I think Songhammer or whatever is playing)... and then the expansion stuff starts.
xrayregime
Member
Wait, isn't 5:45 CEST = 11:45 Eastern??
I am almost 100% sure that's how the conference will kick off. During the Dev QA a month ago, they were pretty apologetic and owed up to the mistakes that had been made.
Like what? The dungeon journal entries for every normal/heroic boss in Highmaul/BRF are exactly the same minus numbers and I can't recall a single difference between the two from personal experience. Guide websites like icy-veins use the same guide for both heroic/normal as they say mechanics are exactly the same and the only difference is numbers. HFC might be different but I haven't bothered with it outside of LFR yet since I just don't care atm.
This is where I stand at the moment. Gearing up to do the same content on multiple difficulties isn't appealing at all. I just do not and will not care about that sort of PvE future.
Robin64
Member
Yes. But the reveal is at 6:45 CEST.
Fel Lord Zakuun for example the tank doesn't fire any waves when they come out of the spirit world, and some of the other mechanics are removed I think.
Number tuning is huge though. A casual group might never be able to power through heroic tuning
hellmonkey
Member
You rat bastards!! I was going to enjoy a nice lunch time nap, but lunch is 15 minutes after the reveal starts... I guess I can always sleep when Im dead.
hellmonkey
Member
Bring back plains running, rename it to plains slithering, DONE! Not quite sure how flying works though. Maybe some kind of water bubble balloon dealy.
Well like I said I haven't bothered with HFC as I had little interest in it, BRF/HM were the same though and that is what we were stuck with for over half a year and I think that is just straight up bad game design. Like I said I'd be fine with them if there was actual differences mechanically so if things in HFC are actually different I'm totally fine with it sticking around.
spleenpoker
Member
Sorry if this has been posted before but what's the link for the stream?
Looking forward to the announcement
Looking forward to the announcement