This is as simple as a topic gets it’s really not hard blizzard. You add a buff that buffs the raid and increases week over week.
You make this buff able to be disabled.
If people “really want” the raid to be hard, they disable it.
Stop letting people gatekeep others from playing the game the way they choose. For the people who need validation they are better than other players there’s warcraftlogs.
Not sure why this has been a discussion with little action. I see no valid argument to forcing the raid to be hard for others.
I currently am 5/8 20 man and enjoy the difficulty of the raid.
I don’t need it to be hard for other players, to validate my enjoyment of it or the effort level I’m putting into it.
As long as I have the option to do the harder version then I do not care what others do and neither should should the so called “try hards”
most of the player base doesn’t play wow for a living so stop letting content creators decide how the game should be for the vast majority of people who aren’t making a living off the game
Just design it to work for both types of players
Yeah I tried this type of approach back when people were praising ST in its release state. If they thought it was too easy they were free to go in with less players, not used consumes/WBs, take off some gear etc. They didn’t like that idea, even though it would give them a harder raid while not gatekeeping players who aren’t at their skill level.
Truth of the matter is people like having things others don’t. It makes them feel special, and superior to those they consider to be beneath them. They don’t want people who they consider worse than them to be able to do content, because they personally don’t believe they deserve to.
Look at these threads complaining about SE difficulty, you’ll find them. Look at the old ST threads, you’ll find them. Look at mage tower threads from retail, you’ll find them there too.
People constantly complain about how much more the online gaming community sucks now. Unfortunately gaming companies fostered it by catering to the bad apples, and now its just become an incurable problem.