So I’ve been deeply immersed in Classic since launch and have raided every phase --very limited PVP likely on account of the way the Vanilla honor and BG systems are designed.
Like many of you I’ve got a family, career, etc now and at times it’s challenging to keep up to speed with the fights, gold needs for consumes, etc but I’m managing pretty well.
My question: will the time commitment for effective raiding in TBC be comparable, lesser than, or greater than, Vanilla/Classic? I’m a purple and blue parser and would have the same expectation for TBC.
Honestly, we raided 2 nights a week during the last third. Night 1 was Gruul, Mag, and Hyjal. Night 2 was BT. 3 was optional 10 mans.
SSC and The Eye are painful even after out gearing them. Some of the mechanics are just teribad regardless of gearing.
We messed with Sunwell, but ultimately outside of epeen, it’s pointless. T6 BT gear is enough to smoke everything below that, that’s worth running for tokens and farming.
Taking a look at private servers, even lower tuned ones it looks like they will remain walls to a lot of guilds. It’s a lot of coordination and personal responsibility.
On Karazhan which is highly tuned you saw Mag and Nightbane be huge roadblocks to content, even with the nerfs guilds are getting 3/4 tk and 5/6 ssc kills without killing Mag.
It’ll be interesting to see Blizz tuning and see if it’s similar at all
It was the same in actual TBC. You’ll probably see a lot of guilds skip those end bosses because they are harder than the early bosses of the next tier. Our guild was struggling in BT, so we put it on hiatus for a couple of weeks and went back and wiped on Kael until we got it. We called it Kael Boot Camp. After that we blasted through the rest of BT and killed Illidan.
Don’t understand this mentality. The main point of raiding is to defeat all of the bosses, and that includes Sunwell. The gear is only a means to that end. I don’t understand why guilds would stop short. Same thing with Naxx now. Finish what you started, IMO.
Just like how most guilds straight-up stop running BWL/AQ once they get into Nax, yeah. Not much reason to run them anymore with 90% of vanilla-BIS gear coming from Naxx.
Except there is no where near the amount of resources, private servers and players that play and study TBC as there was for classic. People are still using archived sources from Elitist Jerks, Lurker’s Lounge and other sites from 2007-2008.
Will progress be faster? Of course
But it won’t be classic fast.
Lack of world buffs means you aren’t increasing your power level several tiers higher.
Lack of resources, knowledge and theory crafting of metas of this era compared to classic
Can’t stack melee, regardless of their high potential dps
Class stacking, while is beneficial in some ways can’t be done to absurd levels because of the need for many buffs (ele shamans are a must, spriests, survival hunter, arms warrior, ect)