In Development: Season of Discovery Phase 4

unlock chaos bolt na

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Big kudos to the 16 people keeping the raiding scene alive there. They should make a hall of honor with statues of those players when they reopen Chaos Bolt.

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isn’t there supposed to be a PTR update today?

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Devs? Hello?

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oh man imagine if this content was released before this version of the game was completely dead and abandoned. what a shame.

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yea it feels like they have waited way to long

Why the hell they wasted time with cata is face palm worthy

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Yeah, unfortunately not many people have stuck around to see where this goes in phase 4. Phases were too long and too weak in creative content. Additionally, really messing up the whole server transfer thing left a bad taste in a lot of mouths; friends no longer had the opportunity to play together in Phase 3 and were too fatigued with the same boring content to restart from scratch. Those transfer windows left people stranded and it was much easier to just quit because there was really no new fun content to pursue for the rest of Phase 3.

The biggest thing that was miscalculated throughout the WoW enterprise is that this is, by its nature, a social game. When you ruin the opportunity for people to play together, how they want, they stop playing. Moreover, in SoD you’re coming back now introducing 20 man raiding (or flex raiding) in Phase 4 after telling everyone, point blank, that you felt 40 man raiding was essential to be preserved. Its just too late. The reality is that most of the people playing SoD are nostalgia players not looking to pull together 40 people to raid. I think that being tone deaf to those concerns until this 11th hour was a tragic mistake. Its true, you cant please everyone. But Blizz didnt take the time to think about the behavior of those playing SoD. The average player isnt a 20 year old in a college dorm room. The average player is a working individual who has limited time to play games at this chapter of life. Running endless incursions, doing stv pvp events every couple hours, and being forced to participate in 20 or 40 man raiding wasnt for the average SoD player.

Its unfortunate, there was a great opportunity here with SoD.

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Honestly not really. When they told us P3 was going to last longer with no ETA in sight, and then not even 2 weeks later, S4 suddently has a PTR and is “coming along swimmingly” with STILL no information, and then we got…this, it’s clear that, at minimum I feel, Blizzard just isn’t taking SoD seriously. They couldn’t treat classic this way because it was already all done, but SoD/Classic +? They could absolutely handle barely delivering so when enough people leave they could likely pull the “See you think you wanted it but you didn’t” angle.

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Ive said it before and Ill say it again, even though its too late now.

If they had given us a new unique BATTLEGROUND, cough Azshara, we wouldve seen FLOCKS of players from all other versions of the game to come back, hit max lvl, work on runes, just to be able to PVP in a unique environment. This wouldve kept the player base distracted for long enough to work on the next patch. But alas we got recycled pvp.

Couldve changed the Emerald Dream rep to so that the pvp gear was locked behind… pvp?
or atleast they shouldve added PVP quests to give some incentive to actually PVP in these zones like they wanted us to.

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I agree.
Azshara Crater
Karazhan
Outland/Northrend
Caverns of Time
Hyjal, both the outdoor zone and the raid that was planned to be there.
and everything else not implemented or not finished.

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Give back 10 man and make world buffs manageable or get rid of them entirely.

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lol what? You gdkp slaves are getting really delusional

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omg start this phase 4 already !!!

theres no incentive to join a pug

Youre likely to be stuck in a fail group when you join a random group with no sense of insurance and itll ruin your whole week when you lose the loot from the first 2 bosses and the group falls apart

I’m so excited for phase 4!

As a Rogue player, can Ravenholdt reputation please have a reason for existing?

Also, Rogue healers when!?
We could be surgeons that stun or stab teammates to heal them.

This has never been my experience in classic at all and I’ve only ran 1 gdkp in my entire time playing, but you know, I do play with a guild.

11 bosses in MC???! Who is the extra boss??

My guess is Majordomo Executus or a Random turtle boss from Cata