Proving Grounds - Now A Participation Trophy?

I just went into proving grounds on one of my healers, wave 30 is about as hard as Gold was in MoP. I went to level 29 and yielded because I did not want the embarrassing achievement in this nerfed time period to show up on my achievements. I used no CDs, did not have to drink every 10 waves, it’s a complete joke now.

Some people had to earn the proving grounds titles. Is this the new participation trophy version of wow?

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I didnt ask.

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Thank you for reminding me, I really should get my tank and healing ones.

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You are complaining about content being too easy that was released 7 years ago. That’s almost half of WoW’s lifetime. Maybe you should find something to be offended about that makes a little bit more sense.

Nobody is going to even notice or care.

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Is that how you look at life? “Nobody is going to even notice or care.”
I will notice! See, you thought you were making a point there about narcissism, but you showed your own truth about your own ethics, it went over your head.

Are you the type who goes out and buys a trophy and puts in the mantle and pretends as if you earned it? …and it does not haunt you? “I” want to earn it! This is on par with paying gold for a Raid Title.

This is one of few titles in the game you can not get carried.

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Nobody cares :+1:

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I’m pretty sure no one cares if you got your proving grounds achievement, let alone when you got it.

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Proving Grounds haven’t been relevant for a long time.

I still go there regularly, though, to test out UI aspects in a group setting.

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I thought there was some sort of underground market where people sold accounts with certain achievements.

Oh I see.

thanks.

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You know what, you go ahead and get it, and I will work up a petition to have everyone to “forgive the transgression”.

Everyone together, Carebear Stare!

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Ooh I forgot these even existed!

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Your late to the party. it was designed for end content, which is no longer end content.

Stop pretending like it was ever meant to be evergreen content. When your late your late, so no one cares.

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Idek where they’re at.

I am not trying to be funny here but is that not literally everything in this game now? I mean, wow is more of a console game now.

There is no money in niche market gaming any more and blizzard saw the decline in pc mmo’s and had to react and thus here we are. On one hand I get why blizzard is doing what they are doing. On the other hand, I don’t have to like it either but the game is something to do and by FAR the cheapest hobby I have had over the years.

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Nevermind, I forgot the demographics of the game are now almost all participation trophy generation, the concept of earning what you have is way outside of your normal thought realm.

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Then you should have done that back when it was current.

This is an entirely different time period for WoW, including different specs, different abilities, different state priorities, etc.

It was never going to be the same later on. You’re throwing a fit over old content for no reason.

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Man who would of knew you would have been defining yourself when you tried to call someone that.

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Yup.

This here is a Sunday poster.

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What does this even mean.

Plot Twist.

Boomer generation is the largest participation trophy generation.

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