SoD DIFFICULTY

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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After the first 2 months of SoD I’m certain this is my favorite iteration of wow, especially after reading the data mined patch notes. I’ve always wanted the open world of classic wow and pretty much everything that goes with it but with modern class design (all though no homogenization)

I really really hope they make the world and pve in general really tough, like dark souls tough, obv have to due to power spikes with gear/spells, but I hope they go a step further

I hope blizzard realizes after hardcore success and the fact that the games been around for 20 years that players want increased difficulty.

World
In the form of tougher random world mobs with unique spells, increased hp/dmg/xp. Maybe the ai behaving more like how they designed them in bfa islands?

**Dungeons **
Maybe 3 or 4x the difficulty increase in dungeons for 2x as much xp/gold as an option. Would decrease bots performance.

Raids
I think raids are fine how they are.

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you get one 10man raid every quarter or so.

this might be Blizzard’s favorite iteration of wow too: cheapest.

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Maybe that’s why it’s so fun because there is so much to do that isn’t just raiding

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So far, everything in SoD is trending away from difficulty.

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it’s hard to believe that the absence of content is what makes it fun.

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I really liked the introduction of another reputation faction, one that you can grind since low level. I do think they made rep gains a bit too easy though.

I do hope for more factions to pop to grind rep with for various rewards.

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I guess if you just looked at raiding you could say that. Pretty sure but not positive they already increased the difficulty of everything in consideration to the new spells and gear in phase 1. But yeah that’s what I’m worried about. I hope the content isn’t too easy in respect to our power spikes

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It’s exactly what the player base has been asking for, but Blizzard has been like

NOOOOO YOU DON’T WANT THAT, THERE’S NO WAY YOU COULD HAVE FUN WITH VANILLA+!!!

Yet here we are, loving it. No we don’t want another expansion, we just want old world made better.

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Sounds awful. If you want a harder experience then start taking off gear

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Keep yourself in retail then, look there’s a NEW mount for 20$!

GO, GET IT!

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I feel like BFD gets a bed reputation for being easy. That’s just because we all know the fights and are all mostly geared enough to make it easy. I did it on the first lock out, we got stopped at Kelris, because we didn’t know about shadow pots and FAPs. It was much harder than what I expected for a level 25 raid.

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Yeah sorry but Blizzard has gone on record saying that they have no intentions of making SoD difficult. The game will continue to be as braindead easy as it currently is at least where PvE is concerned. If you’re looking for a challenge, PvP might be your best bet.

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It’s vanilla I don’t think they can possibly make it difficult but I’d love to be wrong.

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They also nerfed BFD for being “too hard”

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BFD was kinda rough the first lockout but it was definitely still on the easy side during that time.

The biggest thing that makes BFD super easy is the fact that the trash is so squishy and does zero damage. The bosses are always kinda easy in vanilla (except a few) but the trash is always almost as dangerous as the bosses. Have you ever seen a single player die to trash in BFD? Let alone a whole raid wipe?

It is a total joke - the trash is the same as BFD 5-man but now you have 10 people.

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I assure you, I will.

I further assure you I’ll be here when you’re asking for server merges.

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This post was not supposed to be about raiding fyi… sad face

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Yeahh… hardcore isnt popular to play. Lot of people enjoy watching the deaths, but not that many people actually play it

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there’s no difficulty outside raiding.

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I really really hope they make the world and pve in general really tough, like dark souls tough

Based on what the Devs have been saying, I got some bad news for ya bud. You’re never gonna get dark souls level of tough in SoD.

players want increased difficulty.

Personally, I’m fine with the current level of difficulty they’ve carved out.

Maybe the ai behaving more like how they designed them in bfa islands?

The SoD team is a small team. I wouldn’t keep your hopes up they’d be making such a drastic change like meddling in the general mob AI