Not this late in a tier, it isn’t. We’re at ~20 weekly caches, the “buy Boe to win” has been over for weeks.
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“Buy boes for higher ilvl” ended 2 weeks after the tier started and genuinely affected about 200-300 people.
If bliz made mythic raiding any easier than it is I’m not really sure I’d be playing. This tier felt pretty tame, gimmicky sure, and buggy as hell in the case of slg which is just a badly designed fight, but still tame overall. We’ve had harder bosses in the past 4-5 years, especially mid tier walls like mistress which this tier didn’t really have any at all.
As for the lockout comment. I think bliz could afford to allow people to remain unlocked until they’ve killed a boss. That way groups that are X bosses in can still replace people but everyone is still tied to lockouts and lockouts still function in essentially the same way for guilds and organised play.
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Only on the bleeding edge, and that has nothing to do with you, me, or most of the player base. Mythic raiding in general is accessible for any part of the population willing to make the effort.
Even then it’s the most strenuous link to pay to win possible. Raid BoEs, like them or not, aren’t the reason a given player or guild cleared a raid or not. They might let you clear it a reset earlier VERY early on when people have very little gear, but after a few weeks of mythic gear and vaults? Absolutely minor at best.
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That’s the entire point of the thread.
People that used to do so are not willing to make the effort anymore. That should be addressed. And it wasn’t like this in previous patches.
How about the money they charge for server transfers?
People not pugging mythic as frequently as you would want them to, especially during the first tier, doesn’t mean there is a problem. Mythic isn’t about the pugs. It’s for dedicated groups. If people want to pug it, that’s fine. If they don’t, that’s fine too.
That might be relevant if your server doesn’t have more than 20 people on it. I haven’t checked, but I imagine that every server has at least one raid group in some form of mythic progression. Server transfers aren’t necessary to raid mythic.
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I’m not asking for mythic raids to be easier if they would just have better loot drop from heroics. People don’t raid anymore because the loot is trash
Isn’t that because easier content rewards significantly higher ilvl because of the accumulation of vault rewards?
If you can do 1 15 out of time a week and eventually have a 226 in every slot, what use is 213-220
That’ll change next tier, for better or for worse, with the additional of Dominion sockets.
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I don’t think mythic+ is easier than raiding. I just think it’s more accessible.
It’s easier to find 4 other people for a group than it is to form a raid. Pug raids are often times unfocused too
I think eventually clearing a 15 out of time is easier than killing 3 mythic bosses. It’s also easier than heroic sire for sure.
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I have no idea how difficult the raid is this tier, but I’d prefer a system that scales to 20 and the vault acts the same as the other 2 branches. 226 drops in 20s, but you have to complete a 20 to get 226, do a 15, get a 210 in the vault. No reason 15s should be giving max loot reward and I’m a m+ focused player (casual this season).
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It’s not a topic I tend to dedicate time to, but that’s an angle I think would work that I hadn’t considered. Accompanied of course with some more careful tuning of mythic plus beyond 15, as well as accounting for the inevitable ilvl drop caused by reduction in vault reward value.
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What I like about it is that it negates the idea of spammability by reducing the number of people who can even do it. Sure, it’s spammable, but the number of players who could spam it is pretty close to the number of people killing 10/10M anyway. They have 10 chances at 226 on the full clear.
That’s like… your opinion man.
You may call it my personal problem. I may call it a problem that developers, and not a random dude on the forums, should be concerned about.
Subscriptions are going down, I have many friends and guildmates that stopped playing and this is my two cents about the thing. I really understand that there are some people that are stuck on a bad progression on [M] raiding, but that shouldn’t be an argument alone to not care about the curret status of the pugging scene.
The argument to not care about the “current status of the pugging scene”, as it relates to mythic, is that mythic isn’t and never has been for pugs. Sure, pugs can do it. There’s no reason to prevent people from pugging anything. But they aren’t the intended audience, so fluctuations in the “current status of pugging” are completely irrelevant.
And no, that’s not “like…my opinion man”.
That’s your opinion, man.
Oh, so you are a Dev?
Nope, but I can read what the developers write. Normally, I would comb through years of blue posts looking for it, but I don’t have the time or energy to do it. Ultimately, I know it’s my burden of proof, but I just don’t care about you enough to put the work in. You can believe me or not. But after calling out my progression (twice) from an alt and ignoring my call for you to reciprocate twice you’re not worth my time.
It’s not an opinion… the reason they made mythic is for dedicated raiders. That’s why you need people on the same server to do the raid because it is incentivizing guild play. It’s pretty obvious it’s not an opinion… yet you argue as if you are entitled to pug mythic. You aren’t. You can pug mythic, but you Blizzard does not facilitate it.
This is not because people can’t or don’t pug mythic difficulty.
It is a personal problem. The developers don’t need to be concerned about it because it is very clearly not their intention to enable mythic pugging. It is your problem in your own environment.
That’s exactly why you are afforded relatively equivalent mythic raid-level gear from M+. Because it is more accessible and it allows you to still be competitive with people that are raiding mythic.
Okay. Just cope now. I’ll pretend I trust your artificial truth so you can go away from the thread.
Are you a developer? To be this much pretentious you must be.