Old raids won't be fixed

So here it is boys Ion basically says nothing is going to be done and that it will “eventually” get better as we gear and get more soul binds. So much for scaling not affecting old content.

" * Old raid tuning had a bug in the first week of Shadowlands for Legion content that made it harder as you leveled.

  • Old raids might be a little harder at max level now, but part of that is from your stats going down as you level. Things should get better as you get more gear and Soulbinds. Eventually your player power will exceed what it was at the end of the last expansion."

https:// www.mmo-champion. com/content/9650-Developer-Interview-Ion-Hazzikostas

So eventually in the death throes of this expansion you might get to farm old content.

UPDATE: Another middle finger was given on February 22, 2021

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Yeah, that whole thing was stupid. I should be able to go back at any level higher than that expansion and faceroll it. That’s why we level. That’s why it’s legacy content.

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I’m not sure I understand what is so hard about adding the demoralized debuff. Do they need to do extensive testing for it or something first? I thought it was 2 expansions old content = demoralize.

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What is wrong with these devs…

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pathetic company strikes again

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It’s no bug. They knew farming old content would greatly appeal to many players more than SL content. So they decided to not enable the legacy buff for level 60 players. I’m still farming away on my level 50’s though until they take that away as well.

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Yeah my endgame for years now has been farming old content. It’s the sole reason i have an army of alts that i gear out to make soloing old content easier. If their reason for keeping old content gated to keep people in the SL is why then they have failed. I have been unsubbed since i first saw the state of old raids and just waiting out the last of my 6 month sub. I have an entire console generation i need to play anyway.

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I’m starting to get Heroic-raid pieces now (Pants from the weekly and trinket from the boss). Once I’m fully equipped I’ll give it a shot and report.

I do think it’s right to the extent that 213 gear will greatly outpace what’s required to do Legion raids.

In comparison corruption on 132 gear (what I had anyway) was a much larger power boost at max corruption. My twisted appendages alone were doing huge damage to +15 key bosses so it doesn’t seem like a wonder they’d do the same for legion mythic level ones too. I honestly doubt we’ll see that kind of player to content power ever again. They just let it go probably because it was the end of the expansion anyway.

They could add the old expansion multiplier to legion but sounds like they don’t want to.

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so i have to get good gear to solo content from 10 years ago? k. Kill me now.

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Please make old raids very easy to solo for all level 60s, I would appreciate this! : )

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I don’t think it’s going to be enough in all fairness… I suspect you need 9.2 gear to start 3 maning mythic legion content.

They are even gating legacy raids rather than giving legacy buff the increased damage it deserves.

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I’ll give it a try. I don’t think it’ll take that long but we can only wait at the moment.

I’ve given mythics a go already and they’re certainly harder than BfA but the struggles began when we did Antorus. All the previous raids were pretty cake.

I really can’t stand him and his arrogance. He was defiantly bullied and beat up as a kid.

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This Ion. This right here is what people absolutely HATE about leveling in WoW. The idea that each level makes your character more powerful and capable is at the very core of what people want out of this type of game. Nobody feels good when their time and effort is rewarded by getting weaker.

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Getting powerful as you lvl is the core of any MMORPG or RPG in general. I don’t know wtf these guys are doing really.

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I’m never one of those types to be dramatic… ever, and declare “I’m quitting!” over one little thing on here, but I haven’t played much of this expansion, barely got to 60. Can’t put my finger on exactly why, but as a really casual player at this “stage in my WoW career”, I almost exclusively play alone, and one really cool thing about the game being around so long is going back just to do content from previous expansions. SL release hasn’t stopped me from doing that either. It’s like a real activity in the game now, especially with all the mounts, pets, transmog, and achievements tied to that content. I don’t think some people get that. When discussing “things to do in WoW”, that is a legitimate activity a lot of people do now. The fact that that content was easier for me 10 levels ago (still, yes) is really annoying. People keep saying “it’s always been that way” but not to this extent, not in my experience. There’s no defending this. I get how it works, crit, haste, mastery, etc. are way down… because obviously they can’t keep going up forever, but this isn’t physics we’re trying to change here, there are solutions to this issue. The fact that we literally have to get nerfed every xpac is a bit odd. I’m tired of it. Blizzard are the gods of their own game, as in they can make anything happen. There is always a fix, a workaround. It’s up to Blizzard to figure that out.

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We will get stronger than corruptions? That does sound pretty fun!

Yet there’s people that defend this change. Did someone happen to do something to Ion for this kind of thing to happen? Smells like rancid spite.

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Why does this not shock me. This current Dev team just seems to be focused on trying to convert classic players and please raid loggers. Hope this ends up biting them in the *** and sub counts drop to record lows. Maybe then they will learn.

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im pretty sure they just released this new expansion called shadowlands, maybe you could play that? i know soloing old raids and facerolling bosses WTFOMEGALUL super fun. But give the expansion a try?