Based on how it has been used in past Hardcore raids, the current form of Flask of Petrification will be detrimental to the HC server endgame, especially in terms of economy and raids being an exhibition of skill rather than acquiring gold. As such, one or both of these changes should be considered for Flask of Petrification.
- Duration reduced to 50 seconds (to mitigate group-dropping teleport)
- Give the flask a cooldown of 6 days (allowing it to be used effectively once per raid lockout)
For similar gameplay vs economy reasons, Flask of Distilled Wisdom should be given a 10 minute cooldown (as they can be used to generate near-infinite mana), but that’s less of a Hardcore-specific issue.
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With no appeals there won’t be a Hardcorpse endgame.
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Yeah I don’t think many guilds will be raiding for long. Definitely not past BWL. AQ40 is notorious for killing random people, even in skilled guilds. Most of the raiding guilds were probably abusing appeals and/or circumventing the add-on, resetting the flag in the file, etc.
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BWL Vael has guaranteed death abilities.
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Yeah not sure what they’re doing about vael, that’s a good point. Don’t think they’ve explicitly mentioned it, though they said they changed quests that required death. Probably there will be complaints if it isn’t changed.
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I just checked and they don’t mention him.
Clueless comment, Vael is literaly smallest problem ever.
no, he has this ability that kills players.
Burning Adrenaline
Damage done increased by 100%.
Spells cast are all instant.
Reduces max health by 5% every second.
Deals 4376 to 5624 damage to surrounding allies on death.
Hell even MC trash does that, RNG death to melee in the fire ele mobs is ultra common, their lil fireball double tap of death, GG
Getting yeeted into low earth orbit in AQ tho, yeah, that is rough, but funny enough the guilds I played with had more goofs in MC than in AQ, but I think the AQ deaths are almost fully avoidable if everyone is focused and the tanks are sharp.
Tho, if we took mc more serious it might have helped a lot, like using consumes more to nerf fire 2shots…
Again,clueless.
Thats one of easiest mechanic to deal with.
U can have precasted portals, or even use Hearthstone (Its instant with adrenaline) and insta logout once u in city,to cheese certain death. Its literal strategy even for non HC raids,to not loose worldbuffs.
you’re wrong, here’s why: it will be changed on Live because it’s a problem.
He’s wrong because of your opinion?
If they’re keeping in the petri meta, they’re keeping in hearthing/porting with Adrenaline Rush.
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I wish it didn’t work because it is my dream to get burning adrenaline, instahearth to Stormwind, run to the fountain, and take everyone out. Sadly, this is impossible.
Can you use petri instead of hearthing if you get burning adrenaline on you? So you can loot?
He’s not wrong when your claim is just a guess about what will happen and his argument is the literal reality right now, you genius.
You can literally hearth to prevent Vael killing you
oh there will be a serious amount of end game raiding in HC.
it has a workaround. The person who gets the buff HCs out of the raid and survives that way.
I think this is extremely unlikely, unless Blizz GMs start to grant in-game appeals in exchange for a pizza.
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Matter of the fact my prediction for world first Rag HC official kill is less than 20 days after launch.