Then your post becomes even more untrue, because nothing practical changed at all with raids from Vanilla-WoD. You lost literally nothing in this range of things.
What was broken?!? Because it sure wasn’t legacy raids if we’re ignoring Legion. While numbers certainly changed, the actual functionality of any of it didn’t.
Find people the same skill level as you if you want blind prog.
The problem with blind prog is that it exacerbates any skill-gaps that exist. A player’s inability to learn quickly is going to be more glaring if they go in unprepared.
The thing with a game like Legend of Zelda is if you suck, you will still be going at the pace of your group, which is to say, you are exactly as good or bad as yourself. But even going so far as having a two-player group, if one player is a lot worse than the other then you’re going to have problems more quickly.
WoW raiding is a 20 person activity, which is 19 more people than playing by yourself, so of course it is going to be a lot tricker.
If you look online, the most successful “blind prog” runs are runs where there’s a very strict set of expectations. World first type stuff, or “be at least as good as this streamer” type stuff. Basically, it works best if there’s a benchmark of skill people can say “I’m good enough to do this blind”. That’s what I mean by having the “privilege” to do blind prog - the ability to ascertain your own skill level honestly, and then find a group of players where you’re at LEAST as good as that benchmark.
you don’t need to watch strategy guides for lfr.
that’s the first issue.
Yes, Cactbot was expressly what I was referring to; albeit, not named. The other is really not worth mentioning for combat, as are any of the XMog mods.
Combat, man. We’re talking about combat mechanics here.
This tells me you’re talking about mythic raiding. Vast majority of players do not mythic raid and that should not be the benchmark. If you’re mythic raiding, sure, look at a guide. Requiring people to look at a guide for heroic or lower is just not necessary.
It’s all relative. You say heroic is easy, but for some people heroic is not easy.
Don’t move the goal post, you were clearly talking about mythic.
I’m not moving any goal post. It’s all relative. Some people can blind prog normal, some people can blind prog heroic, some people can’t do either. The issue is that a lot of WoW players are not honest with themselves, let alone others, about their skill level so it’s sort of like a “This is why we can’t have nice things” type scenario.
If you’re just talking about practicality/averages, sure, I think a lot of people, typically people who are getting AOTC early enough in the tier, can get away with going into Normal and do it blind. Doing a blind run with your Mythic raiding guild or your AOTC guild in Normal will probably work just fine. Don’t be mad when people don’t let you do that crap in a PUG though.
That’s completely false I can’t even begin to describe. I never made up anything as you claim. I tested it personally as well as heard from others who tested it and that’s how we determine that a raid in legacy status is automatically entitled to being steamrolled. Keep your strawman arguments to yourself because it won’t work here.
My post already responds to your post -
You’re making up a pattern that was never confirmed to exist by the developers, then getting mad that things aren’t fitting your headcanon. Developers never said that you’re automatically entitled to steamroll any piece of content as soon as it becomes “legacy”. You made that up in your head and then got mad about it.
Ion Hazzikostas never said “Yeah, sure, you’re meant to walk into a Legion raid and take it down no problem”. In fact, he’s said the complete opposite .
I dont know how many times I have to describe it.
For example in bfa none of us could solo legion do to it being the previous expac. But we could solo wod without any issues whatsoever.
So come shadowlands and legion is now two expansions old. The same situation should apply with legion like it did with wod during bfa.
No they aren’t lol. Well maybe a very easy mythic boss, but not a complicated one.
Then he’s a flat out lier and should not be trusted.
Because he made the claim legacy runs wouldn’t be affected and yet they were.
I shouldn’t have to have gear from the final patch of the current expansion or even mythic raid level gear of the current expansion just to be able to solo a raid from two expansions ago.
Ion broke my end-game so if you think I’m mad about anything its that.
This is just false. People absolutely solo’d Legion raids in BfA. Arguably the biggest complaint of the squish was that Legion solo’ing got harder, lol.
You really have no idea what you’re talking about.
And we’re pretty much at that point now. A large majority of Legion raids/bosses are soloable, and that will only get easier in 9.2 with more gear.
You weren’t able to totally smash all WoD raids the moment you hit level cap in BfA, that still took some gear and progression. Becoming legacy =/= bosses get one shot. That’s not how it’s ever been. The legacy mechanic is simply there to emulate, and facilitate, the general power progression from one expansion to the next, even if that actual linear progression gets lost over time to squishes, leveling mechanics like Chromie Time, etc.
At best, you can complain that the legacy buff in Legion raids is not high enough for your liking. But it’s not broken, and the squish isn’t the source of the perceived problem.
Unless someone had mythic raid gear they weren’t soloing anything.
Every mog run i did in bfa for legion required a full group. None of it could be soloed. Can’t even solo bfa 5 mans right now but thats expected since its the previous expansion.
However legion should be easy as all hell but I can’t set foot in a mythic legion raid and kill anything. Thats a problem given that its two expansions old at this point and it shouldn’t be a problem. Hell I had absolutely no problems with wod raids and I had the most basic of bfa gear since I didn’t raid and only did solo content.
FF14 has infinite brezzes, so there is no expectation for people to watch videos for pug content.
It’s expected that people will die constantly and be constantly brezzed.
That actually sounds nice. Infinite bresses is the only good thing I’ve heard about ff. Not enough to make me play it but its a nice thing.
Yea it’s something I think WoW should import to the lower difficulties. It’d make LFR/normal less frustrating and better for learning.
Now if only we could get the high end gear people who come into lfr and tell others to just not bother with most mechanics because “lol its just lfr who cares” then we might have decent lfr one day. But thats a pipe dream.
I play both games, and I will NOT run a current level dungeon or raid without watching all the available videos multiple times until I fully understand the fight.
I can’t imagine going in blind.