EDIT: A Quick Clarification, It's two raid instances to start. The information I had led me to believe otherwise. I ran a small search and couldn't find anything definitive on how many raid tiers are planned for this next expansion.
With that in mind take my words for what they are worth. A little misinformed at this point, however should there only be two raid tiers, they are a valid concern for me. (I can't speak for everyone.) So I will leave them up, but wanted to make sure anyone reading knew they where misinformed at the time of writing.
First of all, it's been a little while. I won't lie. Without regular raiding my desire to keep writing here has been a little light. I plan on keeping this blog going however, and will hopefully pick back up after the new expansion drops and we are back into baddies. With that being said...
My first issue is the announcement that there will only be two raid tiers again. I almost missed this one until they mentioned it on "The Instance." Really Blizz? If you want to do more content more quickly then you have to live up the that more content part. I have mentioned it before, but it's annoying that the expansions are being shortened content-wise when the price tag went up by $10. Now, I'm not going to opt out of wow, and I'm not hurting at shelling out ten more bucks for the next expansion. I am worried about the precedent that expansion may be two big raid tiers long. It feels wrong to me somehow. I know last expansion they said that there was one less raid tier because of Garrisons, I am wondering if Class Halls are going to be the excuse this time around. Honestly, I would take another raid over a Class Hall, but that's my preference.
Spoilers (Not going to give them away) seem to indicate that there will be shake ups in both the Hordes and the Alliances leaderships. While I like to see the story advance, I am wondering at this. Yes, it's probably time to swap things up in the Alliance. It's been stagnant there since Varian came back to his throne. However, the Horde has had enough shake up the last couple of expansions I think they could use a rest over on that side.
No new battlegrounds. Now, this one doesn't really effect me as I rarely if ever do PVP. However, this is the first expansion I can think of that isn't offering any new Battlegrounds coming to the table. I am worried that the rush in content is going to alienate those people who actually play the game for that aspect of it. I hear they do exist....
On the positive side, I love the fact they are really digging into the flavors of each class spec. Making hunters feel that survival, Marksman, and Beastmaster specs are completely different is a good thing to me. From what I see most classes are getting more of that and as long as things are generally balance this is a good thing. It could become a bad thing if spec X is doing way more damage the spec Y and now everyone feels required to play spec X to be competitive. I know this already happens a bit, but if people feel forced to play in a way they don't like it's going to push more away from the game.
I'm still Juryied out on the Artifact weapons, I like the concept, and as long as I can Transmog over them I'm OK. If I can't, then they may really cramp my style.
How are you guys feeling about the expansion news so far? What's exciting to you? What worries you? Let me know.
Lag
4 comments:
It's worth nipping this in the bud: The presenter of The Instance got that wrong, it's not two raid tiers, it's that the first tier will have two raids again (like Highmaul / Blackrock Foundry) - both of the raids he mentioned (Emerald Nightmare and Suramar) will be present at the start of the expansion.
Thank you, I appreciate the clarification.
No problem - sorry if I seemed to be jumping on you, but I know the WoW fanbase is a pile of tinder now, and one stray spark... :)
Your fine man. I would rather be corrected then to put out false information. I put an edit at the top of the post for any who don't read comments as well.
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