I find it funny just watching and seeing people typing out nonsense. Plus the use of weak auras if insane. Heck I pointed out that I played Everyquest, and FFXV and raided in both WoW and FFXIV and got crudded on. I respect the teams going for it and it is a good watch but Blizzard makes such weird bosses compared to other mmos. I think they need to do and overhaul on boss design and look to other games for some inspiration. A lot of them are good, do not get me wrong but some are just…yea…
nah, blizzard does it best.
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I’m sure these raids are all from Ion’s team. So if you had his job, what would you do differently?
Getting so invested in world first in WoW seems more odd than even fantasy football.
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Better telegraphs for the boss fights, no addons allowed, no PTR for any raid difficulty save for the QA team at Blizzard. Just for starters.
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Wow has had addons for 20 years. That ship sailed a while ago.
Also, the internal dev team isn’t mythic world first raiders, they aren’t going to be testing Mythic Ansurek.
They do test Ansurek internally, the boss isn’t tested on ptr/beta, end bosses, specially on mythic, arent
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So after seeing how hard Liquid, Echo, Method and the Chinese team prepare for RWF and how hard they struggle with Queen Ansurak I’m wondering, how many of you complete Mythic Raids?
And for those that do, do you have to dedicate your life to this the way these top teams do? I don’t see where they would have time for a job, family, etc.
The Race to world first, and the general ESportsification of MMOs is terrible.
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FF14 boss mechanics are boring and uninspired. WoW bosses are works of art with unique graphics for each mechanic.
Blizzard designs fights with Boss Mods and Weak Auras in mind so they have to make them unnecessarily convoluted to add challenge
FFXIV fights are designed to be intuitive by using the same graphics for similar mechanics so players know what to do.
These bosses will definitely be nerfed post race. Mythic gear will do some of the nerfing when other guilds get there at higher ilvls, but blizz will definitely tone them down for the average mythic guild
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Looks interesting to me. What’s so terrible about it?
I heard Castle Nathria was a pain with the WeakAuras management. Happy I have no desire for raiding anymore.
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I just want Liquid to hurry up and kill this so they can nerf Broodtwister and Nexus Princess for the rest of us.
AMAZING fight design across the board this tier but it’s ruined by the worst tuning we’ve ever seen.
there’s also an aura or something coming in a couple weeks that auto nerfs the place
i vaguely remember having to do some shenanigans to get some overlay with timer bars in everquest. all melees had to get it for some fiery boss, to make sure we’d get out of range of some fire aoe in time.
it looked like a scuffed version of wow’s dbm.
I am not sure what is more boring world fist race or watching arena heal till im out of mana pvp matches.
Could always watch paint turn dry instead, it’s likely to be more entertaining.
the commentary.
for me at least