Heres something to think about. This morning this DH did the Who Devours the Devourers WQ which has those elite ravenous gorger mobs.
They are a level 60 shadowlands elite with around 140,000 health.
Tonight, I am back grinding Nzoth Assults, and I just spent about 5 minutes locked in combat with a level 50 elite BFA mob, Executor of N’zoth who had around 150,000 health.
Not even sure how to explain how all kinds of messed up that is…
I think they had like 5m hp in bfa and the other ones had like 1.2m
If I remember right they are like 5 man elites
One day sales is a marketing ploy. Every new game Blizz comes out with breaks their old 1 day sale, and things like having pre-orders available for longer up that number (SL didn’t blow BFA’s total out of the water either). People will buy things, if they believe they’re popular, so companies tout records like that.
What matters is longevity. BFA had a one day sale record too. I can’t even tell you how many copies BFA sold post launch, because it’s not reported. It must’ve been low, seeing as Classic’s launch doubled subscribers.
Anyway, the scaling in legacy raids is a joke, and Ion is one of the worst things to happen to this game.
too late to make that change, unless blizz is willing to take a huge hit on subs for awhile. This change will be huge for the bottom line if true, and will take wow a long time to recover from if it even can…
It won’t recover if that happens. Basically, only the most current patch would be relevant to the game, everything else would be de facto removed. And…the current patch never has THAT much content.
The majority of WOW’s staying power is just how much old stuff there is out there. And going back and doing old raids for transmog/pets/whatever. Going to a system like this would mean losing all but the hardest of the hardcore that do nothing but push current content. We’re talking about losing around 95% of subs here. Only the hardcore mythic raiders and PVP’ers would be left.
FFXIV is already consistently ahead of WOW in subscriptions (WOW jumps a bit ahead when a new xpac launches but then quickly drops off). This would just make FFXIV the undisputed #1 subscription MMO.
I still want to know where you guys are getting your subscription info from lol
As did I.
Every single day.
Yes not knowing their playerbase, and what happens during the luls and downtime is just insulting.
The majority of WOW’s staying power is just how much old stuff there is out there. And going back and doing old raids for transmog/pets/whatever. Going to a system like this would mean losing all but the hardest of the hardcore that do nothing but push current content.
They do not care about that, they’ve made that abundantly clear. In the past they’ve been incredibly tone deaf and ignorant of what the player base needs. But this is a new low.
On the flipside can you imagine the collect outrage from the “get the best gear now!” crowd if we could get comparable gear from a 15 year old raid?
There was another thread about unlocking Kul’Tirans that made it clear that those 5 mans weren’t solable yet.
As long as they are still not leveling in SL, they maintain the artifact powers on the gear. I’ll keep the rest of mine at 50. Sticking with just 5 in the SL expansion.
edit But one question. Do I need to turn off leveling on them? Will the lower expansions give xp and destroy the ability to use the artifact powers?
they will give exp… likely safest to disable exp earning
$50 for an expansion where people are legit considering not leveling just to do the content they want.
GG Blizz.
Still haven’t haven’t seen a single blue post.
Ion’s idiotic comment was the last and only sort of official thing I’ve read.
if the old kara was scaled up I’d be wanting to run it, it was my first ever experience of wow raiding, had many many great nights there. Funny story i actually ran into the wife of my GM from back when i was doing kara, she used to be a priest healer and i was on my mage. Hadnt seen her in game for a decade or more, talk about a crazy reunion
I wouldn’t hold your breath. Blue posts here have been nonexistent since they let go a bunch of CMs.
most of us want gear to be rare and to run old content with groups not solo
By most of us, you mean just you. It’s very obvious that its the complete opposite of what you just said…
i have to say i have noticed a severe LACK of people in trade trying to form raids for content thats 3+ years old and I am a daily player. Where are all these people who are desperately seeking a harder, slower time to lose on a transmog item thats completely useless to actually equip as gear?