World of Warcraft is a really old game now.

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by enjchanter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

as someone who only played eq for a long time, after i tried wow, i literally cannot look at eq the same anymore.
Was literally like living in a cave and seeing the light of day.

Eq is a nice lil game, but its crazy how boring this game really is once you take a step back from it.

yup

im a fan of the world first racing...i could never participate but its incredible what the top 100 or so players are able to do

this one has been intense, bosses 5 and 6 are so tightly tuned, they talk about needing to be "pixel perfect" for 6.5 minutes straight, zero room for error

[Toxigen]

and its all streamed now...they used to "go dark" during progression to hide strategies but theres too much revenue to be had I guess

Max is an incredible raid leader.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by Toxigen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

and its all streamed now...they used to "go dark" during progression to hide strategies but theres too much revenue to be had I guess

Max is an incredible raid leader.

I hear they still sometimes go dark when attempting a new strat

Had a friend who did mystic raids and he said they become just stressful not in a fun way. Bosses have ridiculous amounts of phases/mechanics and the fights go on and on and on requiring everyone being perfect, he says

It blows my mind that these sweaties spend supposedly 18ish hours a day making attempt after attempt until the total gets sometimes to the 800s at how many minutes per attempt? Of the exact same thing? Pass

Also makes me wonder how they get the gold, because I've heard it's quite a lot blown for a round of attempts. My guess is they have a simp army of recruits wanting to be part of the sweatiest "A team" who is on gold farm duty. Like the team waterboys. Or else they buy it. Or a combination of both

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I hear they still sometimes go dark when attempting a new strat

Had a friend who did mystic raids and he said they become just stressful not in a fun way. Bosses have ridiculous amounts of phases/mechanics and the fights go on and on and on requiring everyone being perfect, he says

It blows my mind that these sweaties spend supposedly 18ish hours a day making attempt after attempt until the total gets sometimes to the 800s at how many minutes per attempt? Of the exact same thing? Pass

Also makes me wonder how they get the gold, because I've heard it's quite a lot blown for a round of attempts. My guess is they have a simp army of recruits wanting to be part of the sweatiest "A team" who is on gold farm duty. Like the team waterboys. Or else they buy it. Or a combination of both

the top teams are paid...they're flown into a gaming center where they are cooked for by chefs, sleep, and are coached in real time during the raids

the raid leader doesnt play, he watches multiple viewpoint streams and calls strats in real time

[magnetaress]

Really sad I wanted to play WW and just can't.


Have not played any mmos for like 3 months now. Losing my mind.

[wuanahto]

for decades i hear how bad the wow community is and now that you can solo raids and put aside some bullshit people its somehow worse?
pick a side and stick with it

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by wuanahto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

for decades i hear how bad the wow community is and now that you can solo raids and put aside some bullshit people its somehow worse?
pick a side and stick with it

Things change because it’s decades

The community I hear is worse than ever, toxic with usually a complete min/max focus. All builds and gear setups can be plugged into some simulator website/program which has determined what the best is, and everyone just tries to copy that single setup, at least the ones that care about min/max do

Old content I hear can be soloed. Current content has a number difficulty rank for dungeons/raids that you have to get keyed for by beating the previous ones. The higher the number gets the more mechanics that mobs and bosses have in addition to more stats. And the dungeons have a time limit. Not sure about the raids though. My friend showed me a Reddit post where someone who was doing high level mythic dungeons was getting 70+ applicants for 3 dps spots. This is all done inside the WoW game on signup pages

This is all what I’ve heard though, I don’t play retail

[Toxigen]

very few bosses required more than 500 pulls, but this final boss this raid is creeping up into the 300s and they're barely making it into the final phase

could very well be a 500 pull kill

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by Toxigen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

very few bosses required more than 500 pulls, but this final boss this raid is creeping up into the 300s and they're barely making it into the final phase

could very well be a 500 pull kill

I heard yesterday Liquid was world first with last boss taking 404 pulls

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I heard yesterday Liquid was world first with last boss taking 404 pulls

yep, last phase of final boss was absolutely nutty