now this is just overexagerating… it doesn’t take a full raid of 20 mythic SL raiders to down mythic antorus and each encounter last their full durations of 5-12 minutes each to down each boss… This content is still soloable by any random casual level 60 player or just require 1 or 2 of your friends at most to tank or heal for you need a tank or heal assist if you lack the skills or abilities to avoid/mitigate/heal through the damage yourself… and bosses die well within a minute
The only real change/difference is you just can’t ignore all mechanics and one shot everything anymore, you actually have to put in a little effort and be aware of what the mechanics are to earn your loot.
So here is the thing, the forums are a place where people go to complain. It is a place where all the real issues and all the non real issues will be brought to be discussed. So if you want to use the forums as a measure of how good the expansion is, you will have a bad time.
It stays as stat stick. Which is all it needs to be. I have never gotten a better necklace in leveling. So at 60 you want hoa to be an ilevel stat stick to push better drops.
All it loses is the attack/heal cast in SL. It works everywhere else. IF you do your ICC runs for invincible (at 60 cap) you can cast heals with it on the green dragon for that chest. And the attack works.
Same for the cloak. Stat stick until bolvar gives your soonest shot at 171 most likely for cloaks in a torghast quest.
I honestly wouldn’t mind this after one run through of the current content this expansion. Right now after going through the quest chain through all four zones I’m not anywhere NEAR interested in repeating that journey. I want to mix things up a bit in a more open world leveling process like the old days instead of questing on rails…hic!
The only time you have to go into torghast as part of the main storyline is in Revendreth where you need to recuse some of Renethrals loyalists. You do have to go into the maw to recuse Alexandros Mograine during the Maldraxxus storyline and obviously when you have to recuse Renethral and his band of misfits. Two times is really nothing to cry over. People are just being snowflakes for no reason.
Yes, you need to have done the main storyline at least once on your account to unlock Threads of fate.
You know I like SL but I have never wanted so badly to not level an alt through content before this expansion and I really have no idea why. It’s so bad I made a new little alt, same class as I have, just to play the game and level something. I just don’t want to. I dunno why, I just don’t.