Start your own raid, make your own rules. You won’t get carried, but you can then dictate who gets in.
The problem that these developers have created is multi-fold and most people argue all the wrong things.
The new sanctified gear system has created a large barrier of entry for Naxxramas. Every single pug is “LFM Naxxramas hm2 - must have 6+/8 sanctified and seal lvl 5”.
This wouldn’t be a problem, if 1) Getting levels on your seal was fun. 2) Getting basic sanctified gear was fun.
For 1), currently doing invasions is the only way to get the remnants that is worth your time. Dungeons/raids drop them, but they are insanely not worth the time/effort given how easy it is with invasions. Unfortunately, these are simply not fun to participate in. This was a golden opportunity for blizzard to rework the system into a fun pursuit.
For 2) Getting 4-set is relatively easy, though again, not fun. You buy one on the AH and then do enough invasions to get the second piece. Next, if you want to get to 5/6/7/8, you need to buy mats on the AH or run Kara Crypts. Kara Crypts groups are 50/50 on clear time and take 1-2 hours depending on the group. This is simply too long for people to do, if they’re not able to find a guild group.
This is probably fine, if there were any other ways to get sanctified. It’d be nice if they had a dungeon and currency system where they could put a poopy set of sanctified gear that is relatively easy to obtain. OH WAIT?!?!?! THEY DO!
This entire gearing phase should’ve been reworked by adding KC, Naxx AND adding in heroic versions of some of the vanilla dungeons. Those heroic dungeons could drop pieces of blue sanctified gear that allows you to get your 8-set through relatively short and engaging content. You could even add trinkets/rings to the real vendor. This formula would’ve felt wayyyyyy better than the current system.
Alas, we are now stuck with a raid tier that feels boring AF to prog. Gear is unimportant and I can’t even wear new naxx gear right away, I need to wait for weeks to get a certain amount of pieces to swap. All around a bad system that could’ve been smoothed together with the heroics I propose above.
KC is fun and a good addition, but making it the only meaningful content outside of Naxx, was a mistake. This is an MMO, not a single player game. We play things many times, by ourselves, with friends, with randoms. Blizzard needs to build systems that have life outside of 2 weeks.
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why is so hard do a couple invasions and a daily dungeon?
Have 8/8 santified is the unique required gear for naxx
All the folks without sanctified can start a sh1tter raid if they wanted to…
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honestly even with crap drop rates in kc (which gives sanctified gear AND remmants now) you can get plenty of sanct gear in like half a week.
hell even for the neck they added a drop chance for the neck you diddnt do in the first part just in case someone else needs a different neck too.
put in the work, reap the rewards.
You dont pay for content, you pay to access the server that has the content.
Guys why dont you see how easy it is?
Just go and farm dungeons for reals and do mc heat 1 40man pugs where only 30 people need the items you need! Then make sure you have full t1 plus the t2 items off the real vendor!
Then just go get attuned to Demon fall canyon so you can get attuned to kara so you can get the sanctified gear required for entry into naxx, but dont forget the naxx attunement too! The items off the ah for naxx attunement is only a few hundred gold which you can farm in just a few hours!
Once you’re full geared from reals and have some sanctified from kara that you also farmed out the attunement for go do the invasions for a few hours to get caught up on valor points for your sanctified scaleing item!
Guys its so easy!
Also don’t forget to go farm zg and 2x sr the idols for your leg and gelm enchant so you’re hit capped! Don’t forget to buy bijous off the ah to get exalted for your shoulder enchant its only a couple thousand gold to buy all the matt turn ins!
Then make sure you’re 8/8 sanc and have your valor points to get your seal to rank 5!
Oh don’t forget to FULLY enchant the rest of your gear, its only like 500 gold!
After all that you just need to join the server discord and ask nicely to join a guild after posting your warcraft logs which you only have from your 40man mc runs. After that make sure you signup for your raids!.
Oh be sure to go get your full consumes! Don’t forget your fully wbuffed cronoboon too! It only takes a couple hours!
Guys its so easy and casual friendly!!! Why is no one wanting to play sod???
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that takes like 20 minutes…
you know you can go to diremaul west and kill the tree guy there for the kara attune right?
but anyways , nearly all of the “pre naxx” stuff including the rep to get naxx attuned for free wouldve freely been available if you played the game at all in the past few months.
for alts to have to earn stuff (which is easier now than it was) is not a bad thing.
btw 30 other people dont want the same stuff you want most likely (maybe 5 other people do?) so youre being a bit hyperbolic about all this and a little too emotional.
Exactly guys! Why haven’t you been playing for the past year so you already have everything prepared like the rest of us!
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See guys its only 20 minutes for the minor step of the process to do the content you really want to play!
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you are really complaining about 20 minutes, lol… of all the nonsense in sod, this is last on my list…
im sorry. even on an alt the time spent is alot less than what people who have been playing for the phase of sod that introduced lvl 60 had to deal with and you still are crying about it.
seriously do you even work for anything or do you expect everything to be handed to you and be super unrewarding as a result like in retail getting epics?
why do you expect to join raids that have done all this…
while you haven’t
like wtf
Just go create a raid and fill it with peeps that have your same values. I’m sure there are plenty of people, especially on alts, who would love to raid without all that nonsense you speak of.
Otherwise, stop being mad because you want to join raids where you are basically going to leech. You won’t have the damage and health, be dead while everyone else does the work, and then you expect to roll on loot all the same. Stop being a democrat.
Get bracers and gloves for undead set, bracers are under 40g on AH, and gloves are 10-20 minutes grind. So with recent change you will already have set bonus with 2pc. Then find crafter for crafted naxx chest and cloack, it’s also not expencive since frozen runes are almost vendor price. It’s already 6/8 sanc, even without running kara. Max 1-2 hour of time, and 200-300 gold.
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If you don’t want to do all this stuff, go watch the streamers, its free anyways. The rest of us actually enjoy completing these objectives, it is this crazy concept called ‘playing the game’. Yeah, it takes a while, that’s kinda the point.
“OMG you mean I have to sit through all this boring content?!?!? I just wanna kill Sephiroth!”
To skip three whole raid tiers? Yeah, it’s pretty easy.
Half a week to blow past 6 months of progression is pretty fast guy.
Exactly. Thats what im saying guys! Its sooo easy!
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Sounds like it hasn’t been the best experience. Being part of a decent guild where people help each other out definitely helps.
While it does take some time to progress through content in classic and it is frustrating not to be able to experience the current phase of content immediately, I’d say sod is worth your time.
If you post your faction and server, Id be happy to help if/when I can. If I can’t, maybe someone else will volunteer.
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