Are these heroics nerfed?

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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I’m all for nerfed raids. But not nerfed dungeons. I like dungeon crawling with the boys. Not steam rolling through. Way to easy. Not cool. Only dungeon that presented any challenge was the blackrock one.

I remember back in the day these being harder. There’s no way we are this much better. I remember things one shotting if not interupted and having to cc certain mobs or it was almost impossible to heal through.

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So, they are somewhat nerfed, but the bigger difference is the fact we’re playing on 4.3.4 class balance. So everyone is significantly stronger along with the nerfs.

I will point out a few things though…

  1. many mechanics will still 1 shot people, its just most people arent getting hit by them.

  2. ties into #1, we’re still early in the xpac, so most of the people youre running with are not casual players. People that hit 85 and started gearing up day 1 are not the typical group youll have in a week or so…

  3. generally since the skill level has increased, things are dying faster with much higher dps, so healers mana is less of an issue, the 1 shot mechanics are usually dealt with far fewer per fight, and with the availability of knowledge, people are going into heroics with good stats/gear/mechanical knowledge.

To put it into some perspective, when cata first launched. Doing like 10-15k through a dungeon was considered really good. Now most of my groups i run with are doing 20-30k dps each. Which snowballs into healers/tanks having it easier as well.

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Just wait for mythic dungeons.

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I don’t know man. I’m still level 83…

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What?! You got a job or life?

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This really can’t be overstated enough. Anyone remember when Gammas first came out and everyone was able to farm their first 40 scourgestones in a handful of days? They felt easy at the time.

Well, if you had tried revisiting gammas in February while gearing a toon you would have had a very different experience.

The people you are playing with at 85 in heroics right now are the sweats gearing for raid.

Let’s see how RDF plays out a couple of months from now when the majority of folks in the content are the last cohort of levelling/gearing players.