I think when you’ve created content where the only tuning knob is unavoidable melee damage you’re always going to struggle with that.
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I’d probably be whatever with it if white attacks didn’t crit.
Did T11 for both Nightfall and SB last night and those were rough, minibosses are in their own realm of balancing mess, Venombite is probably the only one that isn’t a joke.
The final boss in SB during Old Ritual story is brutal for melee specs.
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I ended up running the fatescribe trinket on a resto druid because previously I kept dying on the third boss, and bricking it that way on a 20. The gears are surprisingly hard to dodge consistently.
They scale that weird as well, I assume depending on armor type? Started getting my priest into T8 delves and it seems like the damage is really tuned down compared to my Boomkin that gets hit like a truck even by just random delve trash. My Shaman seems pretty well balanced with their survivability and then my plate classes barely notice mobs do any damage at all.
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It’s the same with zekvir. Cloth takes less
I have a feeling mid way through the season, especially if player engagement metrics is low (or people complain a lot), they’ll pull a “We heAr YoU11!1!” and slightly buff it. The buff will not only be late into the season when most players unsubbed/lost interest, but it won’t be substantially more.
Just a hunch based on their current tendencies. 
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I think they have the right idea with the final bosses of KR, WW, and DP where there’s unavoidable AoE to serve as gear checks, staggering potions, and defensive usages, other areas are sloppy.
With the new stories/Delves (meaning new boss encounters) coming in S2 hopefully they show improvements.
Heroic dungeons dish out heroic raid gear come off it.
Progress is progress. Gear is irrelevant to dropping bosses.
Not on a consistent basis.
Its what. Every second week?
Just do content. Wanting time fed gear is the lamest thing I can imagine
It will get buffed.
Ion ALWAYS overreacts and they have to buff later, y’all know this.
He likes to wait for the uproar before he re-adjusts.
11’s are harder than actual mythic+ depending on your class actually
Better off removing gear from WOW if it’s to serve only as a list of undesirable things to do before getting to do content.
As it stands on live, gear serves a purpose because some people are not good enough to obtain said gear. It functions as a pseudo vetting tool.
For mythic raiding and 10s I guess but people only talk about heroic and that isn’t " vetting" level.
Im tired of having time grinds because the definition of the average player wants to feel like they have one up on someone.
I just wanna gear out alts so I can swap them out freely during mythic prog. Killing this time gating is the path towards that
And heroic raid ILVL is not hard to get, nor is it gated. Spam 7s and 8s, all day.
People who do +8 delves might not be good enough to heroic raid or do M+ for heroic gear.
The real joke is thinking you need Gilded Crests if your only end-game pillar is delves. Delves are the easiest content in the game and it’s already incredibly generous that you can get hero track from them.
Exactly, if they’re not good enough to get the gear than they don’t need it to continue. The gear won’t suddenly make them good.
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I tire of this… a 8 and a 10 mythic are close enough both being entry level content it isn’t likely to be an issue.
A tempest in a tea cup… What I would want is 11 delves and mythic 12s to drop mythic loot…
It’s understandable why they capped them. Delves, even T11, are so easy people would just spam these to get their gilded. It was either cap the crests or increase difficulty in delves, and increasing the difficulty would have had bigger backlash
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This is a damn coup next to the 3-9 a week possible now and only if you really lean into the map grind.
Was excellent news, I am pleased
This is the same player base that cried relentlessly to lower gilded from +9 to +8. It’s rather leagues apart.
And if +10 is seen as entry level, we should really move mythic vault to like m+15.
It’s lunacy.
You don’t care for these things as content, but list of undesirable stuff so you can swap to alts in mythic prog.
Better off deleting gear from WOW.