Not sure if this has already been discussed, but my friends and I had a fun debate yesterday on how long it would take from launch for the first completion of Nax 40. Obstacles included raid timers, what gear was needed, getting 40 players geared, etc.
Our best guess was 7 months. Yours?
If high level mythic raiders get involved for the free promo, extremely quick. Heres hoping blizz retune and stagger raids.
We don't even know if it'll be included with launch...
Assuming it's available on launch. Quicker than you'd think. There are ways to cheese progression if they do not time gate. I'd give it at most 2 months.
They'll have their full raid group at 60 by the end of week two. Cheese dungeons and raids, get some BiS.... and grind it to Naxx.
They'll have their full raid group at 60 by the end of week two. Cheese dungeons and raids, get some BiS.... and grind it to Naxx.
Assuming they do content/patch progression and you trust the accuracy of private servers, then it will be cleared in two hours or less.
first close out naxx is open. this assumes even a 1/2 vanilla time span. I don't know what someone means by cheering content because nearly 0 content is cheeseable but on private servers they are beaten within first close out. atleast this applies through aq40
If time gated within 12 hours after release, if not i would bet closer to 3 months. Thats why I dont want a time gate, I would like to see the race in full
Who cares? I just want to level in peace and have fun. Let them burn the content for no reason, I'll enjoy it like crazy for years to come.
A very long time. The people who farm faulty content on watered down private servers are in for a rude awakening. Skill doesn't affect the outcome all that much in vanilla. It's mostly about time, logistics and luck at gear. A lot of the tricks and borderline exploits that players use on private servers weren't possible back then. Among other things, threat mechanics will be very different than they're use to, as well. I'm always astonished by the arrogance of modern players. It's as if they believe they're simply a smarter breed of people than top players from 2006, yet many of them base everything they know about old wow on research done by top players from then.
I was trying real hard not to respond to this thread with 'Who cares?'...because you know, people can talk about whatever they want. But seriously...who cares?05/18/2018 11:19 AMPosted by ThôrbadinWho cares? I just want to level in peace and have fun. Let them burn the content for no reason, I'll enjoy it like crazy for years to come.
05/18/2018 10:52 AMPosted by GordeAssuming it's available on launch. Quicker than you'd think. There are ways to cheese progression if they do not time gate. I'd give it at most 2 months.
They'll have their full raid group at 60 by the end of week two. Cheese dungeons and raids, get some BiS.... and grind it to Naxx.
If they re-tune, getting BiS will take a while.
Here's how you figure it out. For this example I'm assuming time gated releases.
Take the release date of Naxx40. For example's sake we'll default that date to 1/1/1985
Now find what time the servers go live. For example's sake lets say 10AM
Now add 4 hours and you'll arrive at 2PM for this example.
2PM is when Naxx will be cleared.
Take the release date of Naxx40. For example's sake we'll default that date to 1/1/1985
Now find what time the servers go live. For example's sake lets say 10AM
Now add 4 hours and you'll arrive at 2PM for this example.
2PM is when Naxx will be cleared.
05/18/2018 11:19 AMPosted by BellatoriIf time gated within 12 hours after release, if not i would bet closer to 3 months. Thats why I dont want a time gate, I would like to see the race in full
Impossible.
Going from MC to naxx requires atleast a few weeks of farming onyxia.She drops 2-3 scales and it's 1 scale per cloak.
No cloak, no getting past nef.
05/18/2018 10:52 AMPosted by GordeAssuming it's available on launch. Quicker than you'd think. There are ways to cheese progression if they do not time gate. I'd give it at most 2 months.
They'll have their full raid group at 60 by the end of week two. Cheese dungeons and raids, get some BiS.... and grind it to Naxx.
Honestly, with no timegating I think 2 months is a bit generous.
If you 100% no life it you could cap in a week or less and after that it's just a matter of speedruning to BiS and smashing out pre naxx and probably skipping stuff like MC all together. Moneys on a month and a half if it's 1.12 based, didn't even take a week on LH to get server first on naxx.
05/19/2018 02:12 AMPosted by Curruptress05/18/2018 11:19 AMPosted by BellatoriIf time gated within 12 hours after release, if not i would bet closer to 3 months. Thats why I dont want a time gate, I would like to see the race in full
Impossible.
Going from MC to naxx requires atleast a few weeks of farming onyxia.She drops 2-3 scales and it's 1 scale per cloak.
No cloak, no getting past nef.
What's the cloak you are talking about?
05/19/2018 03:00 AMPosted by Tridiak05/19/2018 02:12 AMPosted by Curruptress...
Impossible.
Going from MC to naxx requires atleast a few weeks of farming onyxia.She drops 2-3 scales and it's 1 scale per cloak.
No cloak, no getting past nef.
What's the cloak you are talking about?
The onyxia scale cloak. Protects you from 1 !@#$ty ability that will insta gib anyone not bubbled or wearing a cloak. Anyone tanking him HAS to have it aswell.
Fairly quickly. If you're on a pvp server, it will be a race for many people. That's because gear is king in pvp, and Naxx gear means you become kings of the server.
If everything is available at launch? Maybe a few months? It'll take a little while to get 40 people to level 60. And with no catch up mechanics at least a few weeks farming lower raids to gear up, keep in mind 40 people two drops per boss. Actually I'd guess the biggest delay would be gearing up, in retail there are significantly better gearing options.
05/19/2018 03:55 AMPosted by Curruptress<span class="truncated">...</span>
What's the cloak you are talking about?
The onyxia scale cloak. Protects you from 1 !@#$ty ability that will insta gib anyone not bubbled or wearing a cloak. Anyone tanking him HAS to have it aswell.
Everyone had to take the time to get as much fire resist as possible. Not just the tanks. Again, stuff didn't die in 2 seconds where everyone could get away with not having it - Rag that is.
05/18/2018 10:54 AMPosted by AnithariaAssuming they do content/patch progression and you trust the accuracy of private servers, then it will be cleared in two hours or less.
This. if they actually do patch progression (which i doubt), Naxx will be cleared straight away. By the time it comes out, people would have figured out the "new" meta and "new" BiS.
Though that being said, there maybe some unforeseen road blocks.