Developer Update: A Look at What’s Ahead for Wrath of the Lich King Classic

Trying to keep up with /4 (LFG) while 500 asian gold farmer bots spam it, in addition to the other 100 groups all looking for a tank or healer is not fun. Unless you are a group with a tank or a healer in it already, you can post in /4 until your fingers bleed without ever actually getting a group. LFD tool, and other things, were indeed the slippery slope that eventually led to one heck of a bad game in later iterations of WoW, but there’s no slippery slope with a re-release. Put in LFD and let us get on with the game.

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I’m fine with the changes, I don’t understand the outrage lol, I mean…Heroic Naxx is something a lot have been asking, ICC raid lockout system was the best of all phases anyway and is just fine. Badge change is great, I don’t see the problem…

Just be careful and make sure the extra challenges are optional.

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Your posts are literally woke SJW stuff. The “pillars” are meaningless, this is corporate BS, and you’re eating it all up. I mean, I guess if we were all the same the world would be a boring place, but your enthusiasm for meaningless BS that’s being shoved down our throat in the name of “some changes” is pretty cringe. You’re the kid who was happy for more homework over the weekend.

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Don’t just consider the changes, do them. 10/25 man should have the same loot and Heroic difficulty for Naxx/Ulduar would be lovely. Ulduar hard modes on Heroic might actually be a challenge.

Why would anyone do a 25m if they can do 10m and get the exact same loot? No one would go to the trouble of finding 15 more people to sign up for the exact same rewards. it makes no sense.

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I know right, you would think some of this stuff would be common sense

It worked fine in Cata and most of MOP. Scaling like retail with 10 to 30 people would be the best but i think people would get too upset about it not being Classic like.
It’s very flawed in Wrath because it almost forces you to do the raid twice and 25man players can smash out 10man even easier. Buffing Naxx is kinda pointless when 25m players have a huge gear advantage anyway when they jump into their weekly 10man farm.

Please ban GDKP raids. It’s running the game play. Most raids now are GDKP and you can’t come unless you are buying an item or carrying the raid.

Furthermore, it’s not a GDKP if they are selling the drops. SWP is full of mage groups advertising GDKP when it really isn’t.

I think flex raids came out at the tail end of MoP if I remember correctly, prior to that 10 man raids were slowly killing off 25 mans

Though I will admit that flex raids was a good system, especially for normal difficulty

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Rbg in wrath? That would be something cool to try at another time.

You just keep assuming you know my experiences better than i do.

You must have one heck of an egotistical personality to believe you know my experiences better than i do…

Heres the facts -

Wrath at the time had a 12 million subscriber base that was growing while also having a 5% churn rate, which means that there were more new players coming in than there were players leaving the game. No matter what level from 10 - 80 you were you were not waiting 2 hours for a rdf queue when it was the newest feature for the last year of the expansion.

It was a lie.

Get over it.

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It’s not a lie, I had 45m-1h queues during even prime time as a DPS in WOTLK, can’t imagine during off-prime-time…

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cant read a chart and cant do math apparently

45 - 1 hr = 2 hrs now guys

/facepalm

That’s actually part of the reason why people want LFD, it didn’t change significantly in off hours. The ratio of tanks/heals to dps stays the same so the wait times stay the same.

Let’s first make sure you can read before accusing others of having educational roadblocks.

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After no LFD all of this crap? WTF u guys doing with the game? FFS

There was never a 2 hour queue at any time of the day, for any one. Even for the oculus. It doesn’t really surprise me though that someone who sees a rising population as a freefall would chime in though.

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They’re actually turning classics path into worse than retails path lol, who would have thought it was possible

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Yes, there was. I’d personally seen basically infinite queue times when trying to queue in the middle of the night or at early morning hours where I’d basically just leave queue and log-off because it was never popping.

I get that this hurts your narrative but this was an actual thing.

I said it went in to freefall after WOTLK which is demonstrably true, in the context of the games lifespan.

Man…you’re one frustrating individual…

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