BWLs right around the corner, 6 lockouts in, no nightslayer, no bloodfang, not even the BoEs. Fun game. Our rogues looking skinny.
While I understand the whole game can be cleared in blues, parsing is fun, and its not suuuuuper enjoyable to spam MC and DE 15+ druid and hunter drops every week.
Yo my hunter can use that gear brother get me in there!
Welcome to it, we have 4 full bis hunters.
To your point, accelerating the timeline with no increase to loot was a recipe for failure.
This will be less of a pain point as more content is released but sure is a drag in the interim.
Yeah its crap, I understand that expanding the buff / debuff limit pushed damage over what formerly bis toons were capable of, even in blues. BUT thats not super fun, especially if you wind up dying and losing WBs.
On top of that, sure the relative (by comparison) ease of rank 14 is not only still a huge slog if not impossible for casual players, and some of the sets are bad. The rogue set for example has limited applications if any in PvE, ofc weapons are nice but the actual set is “mid”.
On the plus side they’ve already shown they are willing to make changes for quality of life / player enjoyment. Let’s just hope they make a change to loot acquisition before the end of the Classic cycle concludes and we move towards TBC
you’ll be clearing MC while BWL is out, while ZG is out, and maybe even while AQ is out. Though I agree, this is too fast.
Real talk, gearing a guild takes forever when over half the raid is warriors and rogues. When only one druid is in the raid. When only 1-2 hunter is in the raid etc.
Min/maxing warcraft logs directly increases the time you have to spend hoping for drops in Moltencore and onyxia and every other raid.
(and also ruins my solo queues in WSG because 7/10 spots are warriors)
We only have 5 rogues, but they look like homeless people due to lack of gear.
Either way, the “no changes… buuuut” where we nerf basically every gold farm, speed up the timeline, and pretty much make what was an amazing game more of an annoyance and a waiting room for TBC, is just a horrible way to roll out fresh classic.
many rogues parsing +90 in full blues, mc gear isn’t a big differance from pre-bis blues anyway, also they can gear from bwl/zg if u wanna skip mc! and it will never matter.
we should make the most of the gear we got. this is a dressup simulator.
retail is the dress up game 
I mean im parsing 95s on rogue in full blues, but im used to 98+ so, this is pretty lame, especially when your functional potential is reached week 1, only thing that will change that is significant differences in our kill times and loot.
people whine about gear in the vault too.
I think it’d be fine to have a catchup mechanic for older phases.
For instance, MC drops 1 more item per boss when BWL comes out. I don’t think that would hurt much considering the shorter timeframe.
No leaf, every lockout from start. Feels amazing
yeah that sucks, but on the brightside its a 50/50 shot and a singular item. 0 loot of any kind is bunk.
You’d have hated your life in vanilla.
You’re supposed to mindlessly spam AV to rank 14
summon me to soak your BRE drops kthx
That’s what I’m doing! Welfare epics will take me pretty far