odds are it will be like the last SL raid that was a complete fiasco because it was tuned for things players could not yet achieve because of time gating.
groups will fail until massive nerfs are made and much rejoicing will occur after the abuse subsides.
You didnât disagree with anything in that post.
Is SoC damage really that bad? I havenât seen the numbers. SoC shard dump was Affli AoE rotation for some time and people liked it, me included, I donât think itâs a bad design.
If you say so. Not worth the effort at this point.
I hope not if anything blizzard should make it harder.
The problem is blizzard replaced malefic rapture, an aoe and single target spender, with UA, a purely single target one.
Thereâs no way to convert soul shards into aoe damage in any meaningful way.
SoC worked as a shard dump when afflictions DoTs did extremely high damage on their own and they also had access to soul swap and soulburn swap, at the height of multi dotting in MoP and Legion. Blizzard have since then made repeated and game wide design changes to keep DoTs from being strong on their own to avoid multi dotters consistently breaking their raid encounters.
DoTs do not do good damage anymore. And currently midnight affliction is designed around the expectation that they do.
It did good damage in SL too, granted it was because of the Nightfae legendary and soulbind. But in Midnight we get free SoCs from Nightfall proc, so we can spam more of them.
I also never liked MR because it made me feel like the sole purpose of my DoTs is to fuel MR.
Not likely.
Theyâll still ask us to do more complicated things than MoP heroic did, but give us more time to solve it manually (since they know someone wonât make an addon to auto-solve it in 0.2 seconds)
those with accessibility issues are going to get absolutely melted. No one is talking about those poor folk
So your going to keep designing encounters with the fact we no longer have access to those tools that they knew we used⊠That makes total sense to crazy people!
What âaccessibility issueâ is addressed by addons having the ability to re-name âeye beamâ to âfrontalâ?
Its incredibly strange someone who feels like you do continue to pay the company money every month while claiming they are liars, dishonest, bad intentioned, and you have been âburned by [them] too many timesâ.
Why do you keep paying them money then? You have 23,185 achievement points, you have been playing this game for a VERY long time.
Just seems weird to take your position and then keep paying them for their game. lol.
Seems like you have x-girlfriend syndrome. You just cant let her go can ya?
Depends how they are defining âdifficultyâ. I donât think most people are interrupting that correctly. Players seem to be taking that as âit will be just as hard as it is todayâ. That isnât how Blizzard measures things though. They measure an encounterâs difficulty by objective metrics like completion %, time to complete, deaths per encounter, etc.
Without addons if Blizzard is aiming for the same metrics they do today than that player interpretation of difficulty will 100% be getting easier.
They said theyâre changing Raids so you wonât have to rely on Addons. I guess weâll find out how well they did that for all levels of Raids in Midnight.
A lot of us are in other threads,
Itâs an issue Blizz is flat pretending doesnât exist, because to them finally winning their self-created, ridiculous âarms raceâ with addons is more important than those customers, or even the game in general.
Until we actually see changes to raid boss mechanics in the game, live⊠I doubt they change a damn thing, no matter what they say.
Anything they say about this move is, at this point, 100% about finding âreasonsâ to justify nuking addons, for the sake of nuking addons, and nothing more.
Oh ye of little faith.
Think of the creative possibilities the raid designers could do knowing players didnât have an autowin third party addon solving all their encounters.
Give it time man. Have faith. They have delivered in the past, and they will deliver in Midnight.
Ah yes, all those âautowinâ weakauras & addons that have allowed everyone who plays the game to get Cutting Edge, Hall of Fame, and M+ titles.
Whatâs that you say? Only around 5% of players have even gotten AotC? How can that be when these addonâs and weakaura play the game for you?
Hey, now that addons have gone bye-bye, people can actually see if its their real skill, or if the addons were the crutch in Midnight!
You know who uses crutches? People who need them. I donât fault anyone for using anything to make their life easier or more enjoyable, be it Iâm a game or in real life. But you? I can see that you clearly would fault someone who needed an extra boost to help them along because it makes you feel superior.
Theres no way they keep raids as they are now, and kill addons. No one would ever clear Mythic again.