i’ll believe that, when they remove pathfinder. i may be able to fly anywhere (except soon-to-be zerith mortis) but pathfinder is still a pain in the butt. unless 10.0 comes-out, with us being able to buy flight in the new zones with gold once we reach max-level (like MoP), they are’nt pandering to casuals.
…also when they make content you can bang-out in a a day or two. this ‘log in everyday!’ crap ain’t casual-friendly.
With the way the game is played today the catch up to next tier needs to happen in the later half of the current tier for all forms of content. There should be points for solo/raid/pvp/rated/M+ that should be able to buy the same gear. Easier content should just make it so that you are getting your character there towards the end so you are able to hit the ground with everyone else the following patch.
The current system leaves people behind forever as after the first 2 weeks of a patch the gear requirements for groups are above what you can get to prepare for that content.
casuals don’t have time to log-in everyday, they have jobs/lives. they’d rather play on their day-off, and slam-out whatever content they can. it’s not casual friendly.
also long arbitrary rep-grinds for flight are’nt casual friendly… heck, they are’nt even player friendly.
They always do and the forums always say they hate casuals and only make the game for the top 1% while ignoring the fact that most things are for casuals and anti the top 1%
It’s because we don’t want world content to be an entry point into m+/raiding, we want it to be an alternative to m+/raiding. Most the people that want a world gearing system are not gonna raid/m+ at all.
Week 2 of 9.1 people were already overwhelmingly requiring 240+ ilvl for keys even below 10s. 233 was the highest obtainable ilvl for someone preparing for the end game content. The grind to hit that was originally 6(?) weeks. You don’t think that discourages people from even trying?