Why its hard to take SoM seriously

[Gokusucks-thrall]

Imagine taking a 16 year old game seriously

[Legendairy-shadowstrike]

Made it to 60 at the conclusion of week 1, have done nothing but AV since. Hate every minute of it but have afford to not do it when I am tank for guild. Gear is to good to pass up

[Meriweather-thunderlord]

@Tryxxi-grobbulus

the majority of the changes were targeted to specifically prevent mage boosting as opposed to making the leveling experience more unique or different

Funny, I thought the greatest effect of those changes was to enable Affliction Warlocks to shine in raid and to keep overzealous raid leaders from forcing people to collect world buffs for a raid spot.

@Tryxxi-grobbulus

with the sped up timeline, MC and Prebis farming has become irrelevant, most 50-60 dungeons and the entirety of t1 are invalidated between DM being baseline

Yeah, but there are still a TON of pre-BiS that don’t get negated by DM pieces. We’ll all still have to run all of the dungeons if pre-BiS farming is our thing.

@Tryxxi-grobbulus

and the existence of free r10+ gear

This is the one that I understand the upset over. It’s not good at all.

@Tryxxi-grobbulus

Why even play

Our answer to this question (my guildies that are playing with me) was that the changes in SoM removed our biggest complaints about the culture/atmosphere in Classic '19. As OG Vanilla raiders who wanted to see the world and content at level again, we were seriously dismayed by the private server attitude that dominated Classic to a point that the game was not recognizable as the Vanilla WoW we played and raided together in 2005-2006/7.

SoM has been marvelous for us, thus far…but I totally understand why it’s not a good situation for several other categories of players.

@Allstar-jom-gabbar

Isn’t mage boosting still working just fine?

It absolutely is. I see just as much of it going on in SoM as we did in Classic '19. I mean…just my anecdotal observation, so maybe I’m wrong, but it sure doesn’t seem broken.

@Tryxxi-grobbulus

Why would they when they could Av tho? MC gives crap loot by comparison. Even rep rewards are better

yeah, this is the biggest problem, I think, for the largest number of players. It’s the biggest and most destructive error they made for SoM, imo.

[Tryxxi-grobbulus]

you are confusing me with the other mage my dude

[Riger-arugal]

@Gokusucks-thrall

Imagine taking a 16 year old game seriousl

Hey! I take Baldur’s gate very seriously I’ll have you know!

[Allstar-jom-gabbar]

oh, you two look the same. Point still stands though.

[Meriweather-thunderlord]

@Tryxxi-grobbulus

you are confusing me with the other mage

That they can’t see the difference in headdress and shoulders is upsetting to me, Tryxxi.

I totally get your post. Other mage…I never get other mage’s posts.

[Moomoose-moon-guard (Moomoose)]

@Tryxxi-grobbulus

Most of these changes were well intentioned, but the practicality is bad, for example some dungeons like SFK are suggested level 22-30, but if you have a level 22, in the dungeon with a level 30, due to level differences mobs will reward 8 exp instead of the normal 90-110 or what have you, which was made to reduce boosting, but also ruined normal dungeon grouping for selective instances.

These changes reflect similar changes made to retail, where when a high level carries a lower level, the lower level gets 0xp for kills. That includes a 49 grouped with a 50. The 49 in retail gets 0xp for kills.

My feeling is that SOM is a test case for the grand plan to turn earlier content into esports realms. Just my opinion.

[Phugly-herod]

Same. I’m totally clueless about everything people are whining about here. I’m just playing classic with people around again…

[Kanako-frostmourne]

That’s a whole lot of cope bro. You seem to really hate this game, so why are you even here posting tears? Go do something else.

[Orcbro-jom-gabbar]

I do. Whether I win a Corpsemaker roll on a warrior or not, in the end it’s still just a game. I’m not against esports, I just don’t care that much what happens to my games saves. Go ahead delete my Pokemon Red save from when I was a kid. I’ll just be mildly disappointed.