Sorry if this is beating a dead horse here on the forums, I’ve been away for awhile.
As a collector of past items/achievements I missed out on while on hiatus from the game, I’ve been thinking about Blizzard’s statement regarding the soloability of raids from past expansions. As I recall it goes like this - towards the end of a current expansion, the raids from 2 expansions ago should be soloable. Chronologically that would currently be Legion. It’s true…I cannot solo them…but I am not here to discuss my lack of skill.
The thing that keeps bothering me is the level squish. Due to that BFA became the “Retail” release, the very base version of the game really. For the life of me I can’t understand why they didn’t level the playing field with Legion along with all the other content previous to BFA.
If BFA is the new base game, by Blizzard’s logic you shouldn’t be able to solo its raids until the end of the next expansion after Shadowlands, right? I’m good with that. But what makes Legion so special that it cannot be soloed (by me anyhow) after being lumped into a sort of “legacy” category with everything else predating BFA? Is it somehow Chromie’s fault?
the issue is that many of the raids kinda are mechanics heavy. It’s why even after Shadowlands, Some legion raids are impossible to solo (eg, Mythic KJ, Eonar) N’zoth is one that literally requires a cloak and heart in order to do without getting insane’d
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Ahh, thank you, see I didn’t even know that. Thanks for explaining that to me instead of bashing my ignorance, much appreciated.
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This is why BlizZard needs to fix scaling in old content.
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Maybe I’m missing something, and I haven’t researched much…but …
Is there a reason we can’t just level old school? I’m deliberately avoiding quests & not herb collecting ect. so my character doesn’t level too fast.
PS - even though I’d like some of the Achievements.
I wish they would fix it, I mean in the past they fixed other boss mechanics to be able to solo like dreamwalker. Soloing old content is some of my preferred game play. I would be happy if they even just turned off mind control if just one person engages a boss. That is the worst mechanic imo, hate it. Unlike some tank cleave mechanic I could try to survive through it just ends the fight right there.
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I find with even my crappy gear most legion raids are soloable. Theres some mechanics here or there for certain bosses.
I dislike the forced personal loot crap. Legacy loot guys. The rng of personal loot sucks.
are you doing mythic legion raids?
if you’re doing them on that hunter it is much easier with a pet
Normal or heroic on this toon. More so some of the earlier legion raids can be soloed in mythic.
The last 2 raids you want an actual team for mythic.
Hi Liadariel, with this post I was referring to using a max-level character solo, in order to collect rare mounts/pets/mogs/achievements/etc. from past expansions.
Following the level squish I have not leveled up any characters from 1-50 myself, but have heard a lot of others with similar complaints; that you out-level the expansion area before finishing the story. I am not sure that “scaling” would be the right word for me to use here, but whatever it is could use improvement as well.
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I still need to try Tomb. I’ve been doing that one with a friend because he also wants stuff, but everything before that I can complete on Mythic solo with almost no problem; the exception being the Demon Within, where I sometimes have some crap rng and wipe a time or 2.
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You should be able to solo most* no problem, I think the only ones that have given issue are Avatar on Mythic due to the whole lava thing being a bit of a pain and then Eonar in Antorus. Damage check on some later Antorus bosses may also be rough (have never attempted).
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I just tried this yesterday and got it to about 50% before I went splat. Tried three times before I said to my self, “Nope, not going to happen.” 