Mage Tower: A Compromise

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#205

Precisely. It’s a testing phase. It doesn’t mean that the last day of testing is their final iteration of it.

They may look at the last days worth of testing and think “hey, this needs about a 10% buff across the board” and then it’s released 10% stronger than you remember it being.

This is apparently what happened on the PTR. It was a bit too easy with a bit too high of success rate for a challenge mode. So they stealth buffed it.

Apparently the buff was a bit too much for too many people. They could dial the stealth buff back 25-33% (so a 66-75% buff is still active from PTR). In my humble casual self opion

#206

Would actually hold if they didn’t issue a statement 24 hours later saying “this isn’t what we wanted, we’re looking into it and have already found glaring issues”.

Now, it just feels like you’re trolling people saying that.

Here, let me tap the sign for you :

They buffed Xylem’s Comet Storm damage by 100%. They literally doubled it.

And it’s a big part of why the encounter is nigh impossible without cheese or very sharp reflexes.

Please stop justifying bone headed moves like that. My job would fire me if I deployed something like that to production and caused massive customer backlash in response.

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#207

Bear is for sure.

#208

Yes, I’ve seen the post. No it wasn’t released harder than intended, or it wouldn’t have been released.

They have to look at what “makes it harder than intended”. They know exactly what they did to make it harder from the PTR. This is just their way of saying “we had higher expectations for people who wanted a challenge. But we’ll make it easier because you can’t live up to those expectations”

Incoming Hello Kitty level of difficulty

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#209

For you, yes. I’m hoping they leave it alone. I’ve gotten pretty close a couple of times and I’d like to complete it at its current difficulty

#210

Uh… What ?

Look, I’ll just tap the sign again :

Note the words, and I quote here : “more difficult than intended.”.

#211

So you’re saying Blizzard releases content at 100% quality controlled?

No.

That’s why they said the words “than intended”.

#212

Reading comprehension my friend. Read between the lines.

#213

Yes, and everything the media says is 100% correct

#214

Now you’re just arguing to argue.

#215

Nonsense. They did all the testing on PTR. They felt it needed the buff they gave it in incognito mode. The buff was intentional. It was a typo or misclick in the coding. It was 100% intentional or they wouldn’t have added it

#216

Okay, but you’re also missing the:

Some are definitely harder than others, but if you browse the forums, people are saying that EVERYTHING is severely overtuned and that’s simply not true.

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#217

Fury W is not one of them.

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#218

Yes, yours.

Let me help :

No, I’m not, everyone agrees Fury is a meme.

No, I’ve found great consensus on the fact Fury is really, literally, a meme.

#219

Watching Venruki do the Mage challenges was hilarious. He made them look like they were from 7.3.

#220

So the stealth buff they added not intended? That’s what you’re saying.

#221

Blizzard’s own words.

#222

Top 1%ers have no problems regardless of the content?

News at 11

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#223

Show me the quote saying that they never meant to buff it from the PTR

#224

I honestly don’t know why you you are trying to be difficult with this. No one is saying they didn’t mean to buff it. But they obviously didn’t hit the mark correctly.