Uhm, why is Cata barely keeping up with SoD raiding numbers?

DPS queues 45+ plus is normal.
Raids have just started
Who compares SoD to Cata I mean for what reason.
Nice rotating alt with 5 posts.

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I think the content is better but the amount of major bugs is a bit staggering.

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What bugs? specficially

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Because cata is awful. It was bad the first time, its bad again. Shocker.

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I lasted like a day or 2. Having fun on Deviate Delight fresh vanilla. Cata way too much like retail for me.

seems good to me so far.
Fully geared, helping out guildmates
Starting to raid
professions all complete
making gold.

No issues here.

Sorry you feel that way.

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Not everyone runs logs bud, and certainly less people in Cata are concerned with it than in SoD

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Hyjal phasing breaks so you canā€™t progress the zone unless you lag switch yourself to speak to questgivers before they phase out. Uldum phasing also breaks so you have to fly into AQ to get NPCs to spawn. Vashjā€™ir submarine quest DCs you or wonā€™t progress at all. Thatā€™s 60% of the questing zones with phasing bugs that block zone progression.

Infinite conquest bug
Spell alerts not working
Ability links not working
Mount animations broken (HH mount tiptoes instead of galloping)
Several achievements for the heroic dungeon meta are broken and cannot be obtained
10m lockouts are horribly bugged when attempting to switch between heroic and normal
My weapon doesnā€™t show in the character model for transmog, only my wand. Canā€™t preview weapon transmogs
My character on the character selection screen is not up to date
Many raid bugs (Magmaw one shotting everyone, Nef lava not spawning, etc.)
Dungeon finder level ranges are incorrect

There are lots more, many of which reported since beta.

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None of these have been fixed?

Probably because the SoD raids are braindead easy and Cata raids require a base amount of effort to complete.

Of those I listed, only the infinite conquest and Magmaw bugs have been fixed.

Addons definitely have been broken but Ive not had many of those issues, phasing a couple of time that saw me standing still for 5 minutes and it sorted itself but that was happening on an empty wrath server as well. But, Iā€™ll take your word for it others with perhaps questionable motivation (fits their forum RP game) will no doubt agree and embellish.

So just thinking outloud here:

The following are just nonsense things to complain about:

These two are on the boarder of not really a big deal esp. since WA has a fix for one of them:
Spell alerts not working
Ability links not working

How is it nonsense to complain about heroic achievements not being obtainable? Thatā€™s a cool mount and people are wasting their time trying to get it.

Also, itā€™s not even complaining. The guy asked for specific bugs, I gave him specific bugs.

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I didnā€™t understand the comparison, at least not now. When did cata raids release? You honestly expect the number to be different this early?!

Some peopleā€¦

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I should have maybe said they really are not game breakers ā€“ Most of this stuff has been done years ago so I look at them as if I had wanted this I should have (and I did) 15 years ago

Remix and season 4 releasing so close has moved alot of potential attention from cata, which could be a good or bad thing depending on perspective, i honestly think they did remix and cata at basically the same time since they had so little confidence in catas success.

I think that 1 video I watched nailed, cata is just too hard for the classic player base.

They want bosses they can run into turn and around and then stand still and target dummy until they die.

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Cata pop is determined by PvP and raiding leader boards, give it like 2-3 weeks.

I donā€™t consider 5 minute dungeon queues as solo DPS and 30 second BG queues bad in any means.

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Tbh. I donā€™t think there is a lot of excitement around raiding for Cata. There really wonā€™t be till firelands. My guild was barely in BWD for 2 hours. We only wiped on Nef like 3 times and they called it quits and no one logged it. I was kind of baffled. We were all under geared but we were doing fine. There was a little bit of miscommunication but nothing serious.

There are a lot of guilds coming over from SoD who just arenā€™t really into Cata. Which was my situation. Iā€™m noticing the people who arenā€™t just taking a break are deciding to go play MoP remix now since they havenā€™t yet.

The answer to where everyone is is PvP. Cata is mainly good for PvP until firelands. Rated BGs were introduced with Cata and thatā€™s what the majority of people are doing.