I’d like to preface this by saying that I whole-heartedly agree that players shouldn’t be able to roll into MC with quest greens and blow through all of the bosses in one night, especially not with this difficult content. However, as a fairly casual player, it’s still concerning to me that none of the EU sweat-lord guilds have stepped foot into MC.
There’s a theory going around that those sweaties are sacrificing lockouts to rank up as level 39 and 49s because it’s better to maximize HKs than it is to push level 60. While I’m sure this is true, it’s still a bit weird to me that not even 40 people out of the tens of thousands of people playing SoM right now haven’t logged a week 1 clear. Even super sweaty EU guilds like Salad Bakers don’t even have 40 people that are level 60 right now, and they aren’t really doing BGs.
On my server, the bulk of players appears to be situated at around level 30 and 40 right now. At this pace, the vast majority of players will only have a few MC lockouts before BWL comes out, and that’s if these more casual players full clear on week 1. Keep in mind that these people weren’t really going to rank, and are even less so inclined now that the buffed honor system isn’t as buffed as people were lead on to believe, so they aren’t getting key pieces of gear that will allow them to clear BWL.
Imho, Blizzard needs to do one of two things:
- Accelerate leveling, by giving additional mob exp (or even better, TBC values)
or
- Extend the season so that the bulk of players has a chance to participate in phase-relevant content
I’m really enjoying SoM so far, but I fear that FOMO is going to draw many players away from the game, or even shatter certain guilds that are unable to do full clears in the first few weeks. My guild, as an example, is looking at full clearing after the holidays; this will only give us a few MC clears before BWL comes out.
Hopefully Blizzard realizes this before it’s too late and course-corrects.
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Naw.
One year is plenty.
Who cares what gear your toon is wearing when it’s deleted?
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were going to classic era after i think
I kind of care that there’s a chance that I don’t have enough time to get enough gear to step into the “new” raids, as they come out.
It’s called Season of Mastery for a reason.
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There shouldn’t be a deadline on when you can clear a new raid tier anyway. Why do you have to be ready as soon as the new phase drops? It’s OK to still need MC when BWL comes out. It’s OK to still need BWL when AQ comes out. The season isn’t gonna end right as Naxx drops, it will be going on for many months after because people will still be trying to gear up and clear it after it comes out. Whether or not you’ll personally be able to before the season ends, who knows, but who cares? Have fun and enjoy the ride.
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Because the game is essentially wiped in a year, and the more player groups fall behind on current content the less they are motivated to play. Content is releasing at an accelerated pace, but Blizzard has done very little to accelerate things like leveling, and gear drops.
Is it OK to still need MC when Icecrown Citadel comes out?
All the sweaties will still be demanding faster content releases.
I’m out leveling the content as it is how fast do you want it to go? Hate to say it but in TBC you can insta 58 that sounds more what you are looking for.
SOM just doesn’t make sense at the end of the day. It’s designed for hardcore, competitive play, but it’s mostly casuals playing it.
At this rate there won’t be a second season because blizzard is diving the audience and not really creating a game experience anyone wants.
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I’m leveling quite quickly. What is lacking is the gold and rep. Doing less quests overall is really killing the gains there.
BWL doesn’t come out for 6 months. Phase 2 is like the world bosses.
So u will get plenty of clears of mc. Also most gear in MC will be de’d because most class lists for bis are all pvp gear. This is why the European swesties are pvping.
Lol Dude, it’s what like week 2? Almost week 3? Get ahold of yourself. There will be plenty of time for MC. Levelling doesn’t need to be any faster.
Enjoy the levelling process or go play TBC where it’s faster. Stop trying to take everyone else’s fun away.
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Green’s should be all you need.
Then they can just play normal servers, and take their time. I probably won’t even see Rag, and that’s ok. Not everyone will win.
already have 5 lvl 60s in my guild
get gud
this isn’t season of hand holding
it’s season of mastery
I keep dying to the elevator bosses =(.