Can Timewalking be made fun again?

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Spent 2 hours (as a tank, probably longer for DPS queues) slogging through TBC timewalking.

The earlier timewalkings just don’t feel right. Mists of Pandaria has a very nice feel to it when it’s the weekly event, and I suspect Warlords of Draenor will feel just as good.

TBC, WotLK, and Cata just feel like scaling has ruined them. Enemies have too much HP, or we don’t do enough damage.

Before scaling/item level squish hit, they felt fine. They were fun. You could equip old tier sets/legendaries and just smash through them in no time. Now it just feels like a chore.

And yes I know I’m not FORCED to run it, but why would I deny myself a possible upgrade? I just spent 2 hours hoping for an upgrade when I got another 385 azerite chest as my reward.

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I just do it once for the 500 badge lol , the loot box can go up its void zone :angry:

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I’m having a blast. I get to pull out my legendaries and get to break the scaling system for the weekly.

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What timewalking is it this week?

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Burning Crusade.

Enjoy Arcatraz!

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Damn I thought this one was gonna be WoD. I was kinda hype about it

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Fun and wow don’t mix.

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WoD timewalking isn’t until 8.1.5

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I’ve been doing this weeks TW as a 402 tank… and the tuning is WAY off. M+10 this week is going to be easier.

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TW is fun though, I love watching people kill themselves on Ozruk literally every single time.

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I wish all dungeons would be available, and not just a select few. That’s my only beef. Even unpopular/hated dungeons…

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Not just legendaries either. ToT has some awesome trinkets for this.

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figures they didn’t fix it

i waited 8 or 9 months from my second glaives drop for this to pop earlier this expansion… have to kill Illidan, then get the ach to unlock the warglaives of azzinoth appearance

wasted literally TEN HOURS only to realize that yes, this is harder than M10, and LITERALLY impossible to beat with a PUG

god, am i happy i saw your comment before i went in and attempted this

it was soul-crushing

do you think blizzard devs know they’d be contributing more to society of they all just quit and collected welfare? because this game would be much better out of active development, in the public domain

they wreck the game full-time then something like this… obviously broken, can easily be fixed without breaking something else, thousands of disappointed players with tens of thousands of wasted hours and a million tears… eh, why bother tweaking that

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the thing about this one is, it is a required step, the last required step, of unlocking the Warglaives of Azzinoth appearance. so it is as required as any other in-game content, for those players

then it is just randomly harder than M10, literally impossible to beat with a PUG

when last expansion any PUG could coast through it without a single player every dying, even if all were drunk, or children, or even both

i wasted 10 hours in this last time, virtually everybody else who attempted it also found it to be unbeatable. cool to see that nobody bothered to do anything about it

hopefully whoever looked at the ten thousand complaints that this was impossible last time then decided to not act was among the many laid off this past week

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agree that the tuning of scaling for timewalking has made them feel tedious rather than fun

however this is an overall trend in BfA and thus consistent

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Time walking dungeons used to be so easy they were mind numbingly boring. I stopped doing them.
Now they are a challenge and provided you face pull everything, they are not hard.
And bosses actually live long enough for the mechanics to kick in.

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That would be great if rewards were also worth the hassle. The problem is they’re not. IMO they should reward at least a HC item for 4-5 dungeons since they’re harder than mythic 10.

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I literally don’t run it. I wish I could because I used to like BC timewalking event but last time I got Shattered Halls and I just can’t do that again no matter what.

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The bosses are never the problem, the hit all the trash 20 times to die thing is the problem.

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I do get some enjoyment out of equipping old legionaries and crushing the mobs, but you can’t really make TW for BC feel like actual BC dungeons.

At least it is a little variety from the current dungeons that are spammed to death through m+.