With one of the most recent interviews reaching youtube, The new raid tier, consisting of 3 raids and 9 encounters, is apparently going to be timegated? As in Voidspire releasing as normal and then Quel’thalas releasing weeks later? Does this mean having access to the gear and tier tokens from those later bosses are going to be time gated? Even longer to get tier now?
I’m really not understanding the logic and reasoning of spreading out the core progression component of the game over…time? Someone help me out here.
After listening to the interview I didn’t hear mention of an explicit timegate, just that the difficulty rises from one to the next so you will probably want to progress them in order.
That progression might take a few weeks, it might take a single raid night. Depends on you.
You know when you grab a bag of chips and more than half is puffy air? That’s what Blizzard is doing. Putting a puff cushion of air between content to stretch out thin material over time. Instead of slowing things down and creating quality quantity that we can freely enjoy they insist on speed and recklessness. They are creating a fast paced schedule they are incapable of keeping up with.
After 20 years in this game, it’s still hard to believe people are surprised by time release content. Things in this game have been gated since day one whether it was time related or effort related.
Considering how everything is being gated I wouldn’t be surprised. Even if their logic is based on pure opinion they definitely could be right. I don’t take anything said on the forums as fact unless presented with evidence. Most of the things I say are pure speculation and opinions.
Multiple raids within the same tier seems like a very interesting idea, and we really haven’t seen something like this since like Vanilla or TBC, I think.
Its no different than how raids work now when you are doing proper level content. If you full clear a raid in a coulke hours week 1 then it isn’t intended for you to begin with.
When you are at the right level you should be progressing a few bosses a week at most. If the split raids go up in difficulty like they said you will want the space anyway.
Truth right here. Being declined because “Your not the right class” or “there was a person with 1 item level higher than you” is the absolute worst. LFR is probably one of the best features.
Your class has to be perfect, Your Ilevel has to be the highest available, and if you manage to get in your role has to be perfectly executed or you will get kicked.
“But why not just join a guild?”
Why? So they can give me a different set of rules to raid I think I’ll pass.
