Ehh we were promised we would be able to solo stuff we used to… I am waiting for the hotfix to make this possible again. At least for the duration of the prepatch blizzard.
My guess would be that people were unsubbing and in the unsub questionnaire they were saying they’d be back at the patch.
My main issue arises with Antorus. Before there were something’s you could cheese because of corruption (cough Coven of Shivarra - apply gushing and keep on running them apart).
Not quite possible now for Heroic/Mythic solo. Though given that LFR is doable now once we actually get endgame SL normal/heroic gear with a significant item level boost than now, it’ll be easy.
Yes, in the meantime we have to level all our alts again to be able to do stuff, which is a negative to lvl squish in combination to the removal of borrowed power.
We called this months ago.
The truth finally comes out!
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Yeah does feel pretty bad.
Yes we knew this would happen, up to blizzard to clean their mess though >.>
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Hell, Aggramar is a total cluster on LFR difficulty now.
Agreed.
BlizZard broke it now they should fix it!
Blizz doesn’t think old content should be guaranteed soloable until it’s 2 expansions old. They don’t adjust fights until the expansions are that old, IIRC.
Can still pump him during 80/40 (if you mean Taeshalach Technique one shot) or have a class that can rush back.
I’d have to go feral though, I won’t meet the dps check before he hits me off. Tried on bear and it’s a no go.
Well they really should especially to the gold nerfs to the old raids, really feels bad tbh that raids you can solo give trash gold.
Just an fyi - with every squish the game is balanced around the new cap.
So as annoying as it is, this is honestly par for the course for Blizzard.
I would just not bother until you can level all of your toons to 60.
Your mileage will vary depending on the raid. What I said is mostly true for 1 to 2 xpacs back (so legion, wod). More than 2 and you are generally ok (historically).
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I have been here since wotlk, I know it happens. But I think they can at least do a hotfix to make it soloable since they delayed shadowlands and all… and having to relevel alts to be able to solo stuff I could do 2 days ago is really annoying.
I know.
I’m not saying it isn’t wrong, I’m telling you this is how it has gone historically.
The same thing happened with the stat squish to 110. It made killing Sha basically require 120 (or 100 to 110 I don’t remember). Basically you wen’t from soloing easily, to still “easy”, but not fast enough to kill before MC, so you had to hit the new cap.
Also - we had like a 14 page thread complaining about these issues that never really went anywhere. They buffed the boss hp by an extra 100%, then nerfed it down to 70% more and called it “fixed”.
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We are significantly weaker now. Rares are taking me significantly longer to kill now than before and I’m definitely taking a noticeable increase in damage to my player. Both for my Frost Mage and my Arms Warrior. I wasn’t even using corrupted gear on my characters as well so corruption does not factor in to this.
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It’s not limited to old raids and such, at least in my experience.
I’ve done some EQ’s on a few alts so far, most with old gear levels in the 450-460 range, and doing the blue rare WQ’s is a real eye opener now.
A simple rare that I could easily kill before, fairly quickly and without any concern for them harming me, is now a challenging fight. On a couple of toons, I’ve had to use big CD’s, defensives, and even self heals, that I didn’t ever have to do before the pre-patch. Or if I don’t, I find my health at half of max, which never was the case before.
For the bigger rares, the ones with a “suggested players [3]” note, those that I could also solo before are now often not soloable. I’ve even had some of those kill a group of three of us and we had to wait for a second try until we had at least five players there.
Even a single Champions of Azeroth WQ with a named dude, was way harder than before. Prior to the pre-patch, you had to be sure you tagged quick if there was a group waiting for them to spawn. Now, we had five people and that guy was up for nearly a minute as we all pounded on him.
I mean, in a way, it’s nice that some stuff is more challenging, but in many cases, it’s way more than a bit more challenging. I had an easier time soloing some of those rares while leveling than I am having now with toons with pre-patch ilvls of 450-460. What happens now if I level a new toon and go through BfA with way worse gear? Do I just die over and over to stuff? I sort of don’t want to find out.
I thought the PTR was for balancing all this out, post squish and post corruption removal, so maybe it wasn’t quite so easy but at least not make it significantly harder. I find it hard to believe in my little cow brain that they couldn’t see how things were playing out, yet they did nothing to balance stuff better. Or maybe they didn’t care as they were focusing more on SL, who knows. But it makes me very, very concerned for their ability to balance covenants, conduits, and soul binds in SL.
/moo 
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