Initially when this was brought up, this was before people made dedicated level 11s for the purpose. I stated that it’s fine that lower levels can participate on more equal footing to max folks, even if the scaling is more favoring to the lower levels. I’ll still be able to hit things, get some loot, maybe get lucky with the mount and go about my day.
…No. This has become a problem, and I know the event isn’t much longer, but it is such a problem that devs should look back on this failure of balancing and strive to avoid it at all costs.
Every single dungeon is now having a dedicated level 11 just cleaving through everything, often skipping all but the last boss for dungeon credit. My last run in Dire Maul, the one with the Elf boss, was over in a minute. I didn’t even have the chance to attack anything.
It’s one thing to have low levels out DPS me in this content. In fact I fully welcome it. It becomes a problem where I can’t even play the game because the scaling has been picked apart to the point that the dungeons aren’t nostalgic, they’re over in minutes tops.
It feels weird being max level and not being able to participate in a weekly event. Not because I don’t want to do it, like pet battles, but because folks have fine tuned themselves to stomp the life out of it.
Too late to fix, but at least don’t let it happen again. I used to do TW dungeons for fun and a chance for the mount. They sure aren’t that anymore.
I’m here for the weekly too, but I’d rather participate in an activity than be told "you can just AFK at start our 11 has this ".
I understand many players just want to get their weekly done and move on regardless what it is, but if it’s asking people not to even participate as someone by themselves rolls over an entire dungeon in two minutes?
I’m sorry, that’s not my vibe and I see it as a problem.
I dunno, ten minutes? Used to take around that long before this change. That was around a regular Heroic or something.
The length isn’t important to me, if I’m queueing up to hit things in a game about hitting things…Well, I’d like to be able to have the opportunity to hit things if it’s asking me to do something for a weekly.
I haven’t done most of the dungeons from older xpacs, people really be thinking new players magically travel back in time to play all the xpacs upon their release XD
I don’t think I have yet to run Stratholme, that name doesn’t sound familiar at all
I want the weekly done, same as almost everyone else. I have all the mogs I want from TWing, but a Timereaver drop would be nice. I also used to run them just for fun when everything I wanted to do in a week is done. A quick, relatively low stress run, maybe chat with some folks, and be done with it in around an hour.
Again, I want to emphasize: The issue isn’t that the run is fast, it’s more I’m potentially unable and even discouraged to play the game. Maybe I’m old fashioned but when a game loads up I want to, y’know, play.
When the best advise you’re given in this current era of TWing is “afk at start”, that sounds like a problem to me.
I don’t have an idea what you are talk about? I post on one character and one character alone. Although if you find such threads annoying I’m not sure what prompted you to respond.
Suppose you could ignore a thread as easy as you can say ‘make your own group’ and have folks not be interested as soon as you say you’re not bringing a carry.
I get it, my opinion is clearly in the minority here, but it’s been bugging me since around the halfway point and it reached a head today.
The solution to your “problem” is, as always, to make your own group if you want instanced content done in a particular way. Otherwise, majority rules. You’re welcome to try to convince your other party members to kick your free run.
But you don’t want solutions, I know. You’re here because this is the hot troll topic of the week.
It’s time walking during a celebration where exp bonuses are up the wazzoo. Make and alt and join in the power trip or just follow along and collect your transmog.
The less time I have to spend in TW the better. Should just leave the scaling the same as it is in the original. Who care if I can pull the whole dungeon and pop them all with a single holy nova
To be honest, I do not bother with the Vanilla TW at the moment. Not as long as the anniversary event is up and the weekly there gives out champ track gear. If I do that weekly then the vanilla TW box changes to Vet track gear. Anniversary weekly is much more convenient to complete for me so that is the one I do.
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