The raid is getting easier and easier every week. Cata players are coming to SoD pugs and just leaving after the first boss.
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yes, the point was to make it easy to anyone that entered SE could get it
that’s why its not caldoran
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Surprised they locked it behind anything in SE at all.
I would have figured you could buy it off the rune vendor.
Even the rune vendor can’t recommend going to MoP.
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MOP will be dead in 1-2 months anyways who cares. People will come back to SOD until TBC early next year and then late next year its Classic+ time.
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There’s still folks out there that haven’t cleared Cald yet, so hiding the boost behind him is just evil, lol.
The guild I run with has barely killed the dude 3 times now (2x for me, missed a night), but he is no way, shape or form an easy fight.
But in saying that, I think only needing Balnazzar was too easy though. They should’ve locked the boost behind Beatrix at least.
The boost doesn’t exist for the people who are logging on and pugging the one boss for their boost. It exists cause long-time SOD players will easily have it and they want to funnel you to MOP rather than let you unsub till the next classic remix.
So, their only goal is to get you to MOP. they could care less about the integrity of your raids.
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crazy predictions.
I agree, but too late now.
MoP was terrible, people will come back to SoD.
Sounds like cope considering Cata averaged more players than SoD
MoP’s second half is arguably the greatest PvE era in WoW aside from like Nighthold and Blackrock Foundry.
Come back to what? Unless they offer any new content or PvP patches - I think most will be done with SoD by August.
Not to say it won’t hold a healthy pop for an Era server but people that are interested in what MoP offers won’t find much enjoyment in SoD.
I like more complex classes, larger sets of abilities and dynamic gameplay. SoD is fun when you have the classic itch but the gameplay and classes just aren’t very interesting.
The main problem I have with SoD classes is how tacked-on the runes are - largely due to the bad 1.12 talents that didn’t get any major updates. When I played my Hunter in Naxx, I literally did nothing but spam Kill Shot with no pet, no utility, nothing but machine gunning one damage ability.
When I play my Hunter in Retail, I’m carefully DoTing up each mob with Barbed Shot bleeds to reduce Bestial Wrath and replenish focus, refreshing multi-shot to make my pets cleave, pressing Kill Shot procs to summon a powerful random beast, pressing Cobra Shot to refresh Kill Command CD and using a variety of traps to snare, stun, knock and slow packs of mobs.
Ah, the optimism of one who believes Balnazzar’s defeat is just a minor inconvenience, a forgettable footnote on the path to the MoP Boost. No, no, it must be Caldoran, the grand overseer of worthiness, the final hurdle separating the truly deserving from those who merely wish to coast their way to level 85.
Because, naturally, nothing in Azeroth is more sacred than ensuring this boost remains a privilege earned through suffering, not some casual convenience
Already got my boost, even if they change it it’s not like I didn’t prep to level a monk lmao. Including gear to get it straight into Twilights.
No viable version of wow will be released to SoD players until late next year. Makes you wonder why in the world blizzard decided to cancel their best product so early
Because it, along with Era and HC, do not generate any revenue. The WoW sub includes them.
But with Classic, there’s the token, “battle pass” (ie Northrend Pass which came with the level boost), and the “seasonal pass” (which is there 6/12 month sub for a mount).
And there’s not a lot of content they can add without directly competing with Retail.
“classic sucks, it will be dead in 1-2 months”
“tbc sucks, it will be dead in 1-2 months”
“wotlk sucks, it will be dead in 1-2 months”
“sod sucks, it will be dead in 1-2 months”
“cata sucks, it will be dead in 1-2 months”
“mop sucks, it will be dead in 1-2 months”
etc.
Based on the fact that within 3 months of virtually every release of those things there were server merges and free transfers, I’d say fairly accurate.
No one said either of these things. Classic went strong for pretty much the entire run. And TBC was hype af and fell off fast because so many classes are just BAD in PvP and underperform in PvE as well. And FLYING mounts ruin the game.