Wow retail is harder than a game needs to be

As usual as the tier goes on there will be significant nerfs to those heroic to help move guilds along. They’re watching killrates. Raiding is really all Blizzard cares about.

Retail WoW is the hardest WoW there’s ever been and that’s not up for discussion. It’s the highest APM WoW, requires the most focus and attention. The struggle with early WoW was just getting so many people on the same page. It’s pure imagination that WoW has done anything but get harder. Maybe not better, but harder.

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Great comment. I feel the same. 10/10

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No question it’s gotten harder. Two reasons:

  1. Many of us have been playing for many, many years. That’s a LOT of time for skill to develop. If it wasn’t harder, veterans would get bored.
  2. Addons have created an arms race between encounter difficulty and addon “assistance” to ease that difficulty.
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This is a funny comment, but I bet that the people who still don’t know how to use half their abilities are also the people who could never pass calc.

I love HoI mechanics plus Incorporeal. You just need few trial and errors to figure it out. I failed twice on it last night. I learned that I should not be on a party of scrubs with weak ilevel and weak M score to do this on high key. It was a smooth run on my 3rd run when I grouped with players of similar decent M score /ilevel. Unlike on my failed runs where I was the only one doing the fight mechanics.

Pressing X to doubt.

Just started progress on this tonight and wow is this a healer check on top of mechanics and just straight up not having enough space. I can see being on this fight for a long time.

Retail WoW is a mess and way too button bloated and complicated for new players. That’s killing the game.

Can confirm

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