And Blizzard doesn’t want that. Nor do they want add-on telling players what they should be doing.
Miss me with your defending of this idiocy when blizz released a one button rotation macro. They themselves can’t be consistent so stop white knighting them, they’re not going to sleep with you.
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But but being told what to do and having a short amount of time to execute it properly is FUN.
So is having to work out where to go between your raiders and having more time to work it out.
Both of these are fun, but they’re both two different mechanics. Variety is fun.
I don’t want to see blizzard stop doing the former in favour of only the latter.
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Combine that with dumbing all the classes down and it is simply a gear check.
hey, that’s what the classic crowd loved! maybe it’ll work again! (i doubt it)
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A drop in difficulty is probable, the timing and performance requirements could be looser to account for the fact players don’t have the add-ons to filter the information and provide them moment-to-moment prompts/info/etc. Things will have to slow down that little bit to account for thinking time, and/or become more rigid so there’s actually a pattern to learn.
But the relative difficulty is aimed to be about the same, from what I’ve gathered.
So the answer is complicated. Add-ons can make encounters easier than they were without them, so going without them is going to have some consequences in the encounter design.
Expect a gong show as Blizz has to relearn how to tune fight difficulty.
Addons aren’t going anywhere. Blizzard is just making them now.
You’re either wildly misinformed or being disingenuous.
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given Ion and crew are already backpeddling on stuff stated in this interview…we’ll have to see how it pans out..but the objective is to keep it about the same challenge but reduced complexity from the players perspective…
keep the same level of challenge, without the complexity
15 shades of blue is not fun so as long as they stay away from that kind of mechanic . Or do not stand in red but DK d&d is red Pretty sure with blizzs stuff there is not going to be a get out of bad pop up on screen . One other thing the will need to revert is how far you can scroll out but not sure the game engine can handle it . That is for fights like Fractillus where you need to see whole fight for call outs . Fights do not need to be made easier then they are now but there needs to be a few changes .
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Since they are removing addons, I hope they will give a bit more time for people to react to “do this or die” type of mechanics.
Also, I hope all mechanics will be clearly visible. No more purple mechanics on purple ground, bosses that swing big wings or arms to block the view, and so on. Visually hiding mechanics feel cheap to me.
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Retail raiding will regress back to vanilla raiding.
just roll your face around on the keyboard an win
My sole contribution to the ‘back in my day’ meme is that in Wrath, raiding was dead easy and loads of fun. Easy to get invited, easy to run over everything.
Then I came back in Shadowlands and it had turned into dance dance revolution and I was mostly terrible at it.
Sometimes these things are more noticeable and in stark contrast with a long break.
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I’m surprised anyone still believes anything they say.
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/shrug
Their game, their rules.
They are OK with players being told what to press when it comes to rotation but not so much what to do during raids.
I’m guessing it’s because raids (especially mythic) are meant to be top tier content while rotations are something everyone has to do - which is probably why they are simplifying it MN.
Difficulty in WoW is being shifted into the content and away from the rotations.
Because add-ons turn the latter into the former so the latter never happens.
Without add-ons you can have both - it would just be Blizzard telling you what to do in the case of the former instead of an add-on.
Well, that is a pretty open ended question isnt it?
Probably, because there’s going to be a lot of complaints from players who aren’t nearly as good as they thought they were.
Good boy, you jump through those mental gymnastic hoops for the million dollar corporation! Such a good boy, such a good boy!
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LOL no retort. Only insults.
It’s fine if you disagree with Blizzard’s direction. But at least educate yourself on why they are going that direction.