The idea that blind obedience to forum complaints of a handful of players is what was responsible for removal of something you liked is odd. They make changes they think are good for the game, ie will result in greater player participation in the content they want them to play the way they want them to play it. If participation is not meeting their goals, they make changes.
Changes only happen quickly when forum outrage is accompanied by a large number of players unsubbing and giving that as the reason why.
In all likelihood it was the drop in m+ participation on dead weeks by the masses that resulted in removal of affixes.
It certainly does appeal to some people exactly the way it is.
Opinions stated in the forums are representative of those held by the playerbase at large, but in unknown proportion. Elite players are overrepresented in videogame forums, as they have more invested in the game.
This has never happened. It’s totally not a thing.
The fact is that people who read and/or post in forums are a small minority who do that because they like to have sometimes heated discussions with strangers on the internet. Going forum shopping to start a political movement is an utter waste of time. If there are valid complaints they will be seen on many if not most platforms.
I’m not sure I’m doing it right. I have 13 level 80’s…4 have now been pushed to ilvl 640. I enjoyed running delves and developing a flow for each class based on their unique rotations. While I have all specs ready to go and have macros/key bonds setup for everything…I am focusing on the specs I am likely to play on that character.
On the DK I play blood and frost. The rogue is assassination. The mage is frost. The Evoker is preservation and devastation. And now, my monk will be focused on wind walking.
So far I am enjoying myself without having to run Mythic+ or any raids. Can I do that? Sure…but my setup is best for 5-man content or delves. I’ve just accepted that and am enjoying gearing up and attempting to make as much gold as possible while “prep-ing” each character. Have I done something wrong? Am I supposed to be complaining about something? Or should I be worried more about the second car payment I picked up so my wife could get a car?
Seems like the “video game woes” are a low priority.
Like a few others have mentioned, it might be time for you to take a break or maybe this game just isn’t for you.
There might be a vocal minority that wants something like “Death Knights should only wear cloth armor.” Does that change make sense to Blizz? Yet, when they get upset that Blizz doesn’t do that, they feel the need to protest.
Blizz comes up with the rules. They do list to feedback when it makes sense to. Just because some folks aren’t happy with a “bad luck protection” system and want to get gear they didn’t earn because they didn’t do the content, then let them be angry.
Work for your rewards. Enjoy that they did this at the very least. Have fun playing the game. If you can’t do that, then don’t play the game.
it is a weird word to use in something so optional as a video game.
I guess if Im going to play the game and get the lootarang im ‘forced’ to relieve myself of more gold than Id like to per alt…but then, it is a choice I make so ‘forced’ is a bit hyperbolic lol
WoW is still a challenging and competitive game.
If you want to stay competitive, you have to put in the effort.
Otherwise, you’ll fall behind, and that will affect all kinds of opportunities.
Blizzard keeps designing systems that demand more and more from players.
People who say “Blizzard isn’t forcing you” will never really understand.
Of course, it’s not as bad (yet) as Azerite Essences back in BfA,
when Blizzard actually made everyone grind PvP for Blood of the Enemy.
But honestly, who knows?
Blizzard could wake up one day and bring something like that back.
The most disgusting thing Blizzard does is putting some of the best trinkets for many classes in Mythic Raid (bosses 6–8).
People want them because they want to dominate in Mythic+ runs.
What’s next? Are they going to put them behind PvP too?
Or maybe make the best PvP gear drop only in Mythic Raids?
You and I are playing vastily different games. I’ve NEVER done a M+ nor will I able and I’ve never felt powerless, No one from Blizz has EVER forced me to do M+
And how do you think Xpacs go? I mean we once had to climb 120lvls which MANY of us did some without boosts.
The experience of the game is the lore, the environment and the story. Something I think MANY WoW players have forgotten. It’s not about End-game its the journey TO End-xpac.
Maybe you need to reevaluate how you play games because you and I are not playing the same way. Blizzard doesn’t FORCE anyone do squat.
M+ may scale infinitely in theory, but not in reality. There’s never been a time since m+ was first introduced in legion, when people were doing +100 keys for example. At a certain point, the scaling either outpaces the gear (even if blizz allowed the gear to scale infinitely as well (ilvl scales at a lower exponential rate than dungeon mobs)) or blizz would manually intervene to stop people running such ridiculously high keys.
If you think about it, you’ll understand why that is. Imagine what would happen if a sizable chunk of the player base could independently negate future patch or even expac power progression. The entire game starts to fall apart at that point.
The truth is, m+ has never scaled infinitely. Not in the real world.
Oh I understand that, I’m just saying comparatively, mythic raiding has a stationary ilvl target. The entire raid team can reach gear cap and their content gets easier, where as M+ can reach gear cap and the content can still be as difficult as a heroic geared raid team first stepping into mythic raiding.
Actually I don’t think they care. Most of the Devs mythic raid or have guilds that they social in and feel the game should be played in that manner (to which there are numerous blue posts to draw from where they have stated “repeated social interactions” is there goal).
There are also various comments where they talk about the game “they want to make” in reference to changes players request. They often hear feedback, they sometimes acknowledge they hear feedback and disagree (like covenant locking) but there are such a myriad of voices from players to choose from they can usually cherry pick the opinion they like and say we are doing this for players.
Gear is the easiest to get that it’s ever been. There has literally always been higher item level gear released with each tier… And no one’s forcing you to raid mythic.
