im curious as to why i hear people jump on this band wagon, AQ40 was always a good raid because most of the encounters required everyone to be involved, how is that bad?
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It’s mechanically (lol) harder. It’s long, the gear isn’t as huge an upgrade and people don’t like bugs.
I’m having fun playing SoD, but i see another P3 like dropoff in P6.
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If a guild can’t progress they will eventually fall apart and quit. AQ did kill a lot of guild’s because of that. I don’t think it will be that way in SoD, though, with the extra juice we all have.
Plus, the bug theme was always kind of a turn off for me. I always thought Naxx and BWL were much cooler themes.
nobody actually likes a raid that is so massive you have to mount-up.
but you cant use your regular mount, oh no.
you have to gear the entire raid with a stupid novelty mount that serves no purpose other than to waste bag space.
AQ40 is the Wailing Caverns of raids.
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It always felt weird to me, too. Back on pservers, things would be popping off from FRESH → BWL, but then it’d just die down more and more and by the time AQ40 was out, the server would be down to like 25% of its launch population or less.
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My guess would be the wipe reset times were more punishing, which put more stress on the guilds who struggled with it, which likely ended up with more guilds disbanding as a result. That’s just a shot in the dark though.
aq is a long dungeon in both its 20 and 40 man versions. individual responsibilities are more of a thing for raiders in aq and the visuals of the raid are kinda ummm not appealing in alot of ways.
so many reasons why but im guessing the long time on trash and traveling is a big part of it and the personal responsibility and difficulty of the later bosses too.
its a boring, crappy raid
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Sand. no one likes sand.
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You really did aq and didn’t find it to be incredibly annoying and tedious? Wow. I’m impressed. Do you also exclusively use the hand basket at the grocery store and choose the longest register line to challenge yourself?
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It’s because bad guilds struggle in AQ for one, and two because all PvP beyond BWL/ZG starts to tilt into stupidity because damage stats spike, stamina/survivability don’t. It gets even worse in Naxx.
So you lose two chunks of the playerbase.
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i doubt that’d keep the SoM version of AQ 40 lol. They already castrated chromaggus for SoD.
Because AQ40 is where a lot of trade chat PUGs start to struggle.
i personally have no interest in doing aq and if all we are getting in p6 is aq and rank 14 im 100% quitting would or rather had naxx/kara or even just kara
aq will probably be easy and most likely just a rehash of som mechanics. there’s no real incentivization to continue running for reels, av/wsg, etc. everyone’s mains are on raid log status and working on an alt is miserable because a lot of the essential runes are way too tedious to get and it’s hard to find a group for any form of content that isn’t current phase raid content.
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