Operation Mechagon is pretty much the last straw

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Why this particular bit of content? Why not Najnafall? Because this dungeon drives home that Blizzard no longer understands how to produce content that my friends or I are interested in.

I tanked with this character. I am currently ilvl 410, and all the gear that has dropped in the dungeon has been trash. The fights are immensely difficult, and the world quest outside rewards me the same ilvl of gear.

I went in with a pug. Everyone had at least 405 gear. People were patient. They let me mark. We communicated. Almost two hours later we gave up on the 3rd boss.

We could probably have downed it with another few attempts, but as my character’s control was once again taken away from me and a mechanic dragged me toward the slime at the center…again…I realized I’d had enough.

Fights in wow aren’t fun any more. In vanilla and BC we had preparation. We crunched numbers for gear and made sure to hit cap. In modern wow? I’m playing dance dance revolution for four to five minutes a fight, and am given rewards that are inferior to the benthic gear I am already wearing.

If I outgear the instance why is it so hard? Why is every pull an epic fight with no reward? The trash is terrible, easily as bad as Motherlode, and looking pretty much exactly the same.

If you enjoy the new instance I think that’s awesome. I don’t like the constant action fest. I don’t enjoy the fights. I don’t enjoy trash mobs that take forever to kill and drop nothing.

In short, I don’t enjoy Blizzard’s content. Mechagon isn’t fun. These fights aren’t fun. Beating them isn’t rewarding. So I logged out.

I don’t know who Blizzard is catering too. It isn’t me. It isn’t my friends. If I wanted to play a twitch shooter I would play overwatch. I’d hoped for this game to tide me over til classic, but sadly…that ain’t going to happen.

It’s frustrating, not fun.

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They aren’t that bad, my pug got most of them within 2 or 3 pulls, and we one shot King Gobbamak and Tussle Tonks. Only ones we had any prolonged trouble with were Trixie and King Mechagon.

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Not sure what we were doing but my pug couldn’t do it. We got to the fourth boss before we waved the flag.

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I havent been yet myself but I heard from several different people now that it was pretty unforgiving and they never finished it.

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I probably won’t even do it then. I never do mythic content, but I did want to see the dungeon. But, yeah, screw that.

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I think it’s pretty reasonable for even a dungeon to be difficult for a while after release.

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Couldn’t kill the first boss because the airship was dropping bombs from above the whole time. Gave up trying to figure out how to get it to go away.

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It’s really not bad, you just need to focus on the mechanics.

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The final boss maybe. I don’t think every boss should cause multiple wipes. It isn’t a raid.

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You get it to go away by killing Trixie first.

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Oh, thanks!

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This is true only if the dungeon gives rewards that make the extra effort worth it. You can definitely clear the dungeon. It isn’t hard, per se. It’s tedious. Very, very tedious.

What do you get at the end of your five hour slog? No one saw an upgrade in my group. Not one person. =/

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It’s a bit over tuned.
It’s a good dungeon anyways.
Also, never target a boss with the airstrike above it.

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I was wondering when someone would make this thread. I was going to earlier because the new dungeon is way too hard. It needs to be easier imo. It’s not fun in the least. I was playing disc and people just blow up and it kind of contradicts disc playstyle which is more of a gradual heal and assist dps. Wiped repeatedly on the first boss. Nearly unhealable damage in 405 gear

Mobs have too much health, do too much damage, and the rewards aren’t even that great.

Karazhan was much better. I’m disappointed

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This is why I have not bothered to do dungeons or raids since MoP. Unless I have to for story or progression but usually only one character cos the time and effort doesn’t justify the crappy little to no reward and the massive repair costs to boot.

No thanks Blizzard. :slight_smile:

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I think is pretty reasonable for a dungeon after release to have a meaningful reward.

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Too much trash too. I was hoping after some of the backlash, Blizzard would learn to put less trash in these things and make them more of a boss rush

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if you think thats bad wait until you try the heroic warfront…lol.

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How did any of you find this dungeon difficult? HK-8 and King took maybe two attempts, one to learn the mechanics and one to kill. the rest was a breeze

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Why would anyone do one of those? I have zero interest. The very last piece of content I want to see is the raid, and I only need to see it once.

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