[magnetaress]

It's been in steep decline for 20 years, and hardmode should be the only mode. The problem was making normal into something they expected ppl to just solo or not do at all. It got completely neglected as a mode and just left to rott in favor of M+

M0 as well.

M0 should be like M+20 without the affixes an reward like +15 gear

ALso in luie of developing actual content they just started this mode of recycling content through M+ style mechanics, and also what they do in diablo now.

3 modes is fine. Story-normal-and m0 is sufficient and 90% of the player base should be able to complete mythic. It should be like other games too where you can compensate for crap gear with skill. You can't do that on the M+ track, it's and endless treadmill of getting enough gearscore so u can roflstomp an +20 to a +30 depending on ur comp and the affixes that week and it make the game shit for anyone who actually has a brain and individuality.

The way to recycle content would have been to let people scale old expansions up to their level with an optional toggle so people could go back and do old raids for relevant current content gear and experience and stuff. The whole chromie time scaling content down to people and time walking scaling down stats to ppl was dumb and bad backwards way of doing it.

Ion is a mechanics freak tho and he couldn't stand someone doing someone elses old raid mechanics for gear or progression tho lol. I'll give him one thing, he did a good bit of design on eternal palaces raids, he went completely shit tho after that. Also the level squish was dumb. They should have just left the level at 120 and added new content. Squishing ilvl may have been appropriate for older content outside of the scaling system.

Anyway wow is in the same boat as EQ live now. They've bloated themselves into a wall where they can't get new players and the OG players are so gambling addicted they aren't fun to play with anymore because they don't care about RP or adventure or community, just ilvl, builds and gearscore. And using scripts kiddy programs to goblin the auction house. EMU is suffering this too with the advant of people botting and farming and trying to circumvent the rules. And EMU's limited resources to put a kibosh on it.

Do me a favor and watch that youtube vid he explains it better than me. It's worth your time if you are a long time MMO player.

Vanilla EQ- luclin is somewhat resiliant to this because the game can mostly be enjoyed without raiding and end game gear by soloers and small grps of players. It starts to degrade by Pop and afterwards. And i'm not excusing Veeshans Peak or NTOV they are bad zones in that they are just high gearscore loot pinatas.