Tuesday was fantastic. We managed to one shot Blackfuse for the first time, and then went on to one shot Paragons. It was a great feeling and I can't complain at all. We managed to get to Garrosh, but someone's computer blew so we ended up 9 man pulling him a few times just to get a feel for the beginning of the fight.
Wednesday we spent the whole day on Garrosh. We were missing one main raider due to a family emergency, and our prayers are with him and his family. We did manage to get some good progress and things were starting to come together, then near the end focus was gone and we could feel it. I went ahead and called things a few minutes early and told people to run LFR and to study the video for the fight again before next week. I want to get him down.
Now, we are at the door of 6.0. I am betting on it dropping this Tuesday, though every one else whom I've talked to thinks it will be a week later then that. Either way time to get things wrapped up is quickly evaporating, and this brings me to a complaint I am starting to have about the next expansion.
Here is the thing that really is bothering me. Warlords of Draenor is rumored to be an expansion with only two raid tiers. That means not only is the expansion ten bucks more this time rounds, but we are getting one less tier of raids then we traditionally have. I understand the desire to get more content out quicker and that the goal is to have an expansion yearly, but this seems a little small fry to me.
Now, I understand this might not mean less content overall. Class systems are being overhauled, we get a whole new world/continent to explore. There will be ten levels of quests, and apparently each zone will have new content once you hit 100 to explore. The raid system is revised and updated really for the first time since Burning Crusade. (Yes flex was added the last patch of Panderia, but now we are seeing the fruits of that labor.) There is the new space savers, (Toy box etc..,) and I'm sure lots of other things that I can't remember to post here. So, saying two raid tiers is less is very subjective.
Of course you have to balance that out against the Cataclysm backlash. A lot of effort was put into revamping the 1-60 experience and because of it the end leveling experience felt short and was mostly put together out of existing resources. I enjoyed leveling through this, but a lot of people where very unhappy with it. Let's be realistic though, no matter what Blizzard does there will be backlash. They can't make any decision without someone complaining. I'm convinced that if they gave one million dollars to feed the homeless of California, they would have people complaining the money should have been donated elsewhere. But hey that's people.
How do you all feel about it? Does ten levels of leveling trump that 3rd raid tier, or do you think they should stick with the three tier model for the expansion. Personally I am happy with an expansion about every other year, or year in a half as long as we are getting some sort of content and attention. But what I think doesn't matter at the end of the day. What is your opinion?
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