Someone that pushed world r1 keys back in Legion, and has pushed and played casually high keys back and forth since. I strongly say NO to removing Bolstering.
You people crying about bolstering as it is right now, are just entitled. You didn’t see Bolstering in, let’s say EYE OF AZSHARA back in Legion. Where you would create a GIGANTIC Crab with 50000000M HP etc. It’s fine now. It doesn’t even stack anymore, and it ticks out in 20 SECONDS!!!
What’s weird though is, that it’s only on fortified weeks? That to me, doesn’t make too much sense. I would like to see it applied on Tyrannical weeks too, and see the difference.
I’ve played DPS, ranged and melee. I’ve played HEALER. I’ve played TANK.
Bolstering, is one of the EASIEST at the moment, to deal with. What’s hell of a lot harder to deal with in, let’s say PUGS… is Raging. Where the mobs can’t even be stunned when they hit enrage. Just save your damn STUNS for bolstering procs if you have to. Or kite.
It’s nothing but a SKILL ISSUE, if you can’t deal with this SUPER EASY version of Bolstering.
Leave a dungeon, especially when it’s still timeable, and you should be reported and banned. The fact there’s no option to report people for GRIEFING outside of PVP is absurd.
An issue with 1 person, is not a reason to ruin the game and whole experience for 3 other people as well. You’re the toxic one in that scenario. Just play the damn game.
There is a middleground here. There is a limit of amount of toxicity a player should tolerate before he can leave. We are playing this game for fun. I wish it was indeed “just play the game”. There’s no playing anymore after a certain amount of toxicity.
Are you unable to click on the person’s message and put him on ignore? Is this too hard? If you sincerely sit here and cry over someone flaming you, for something, and then leave? Instead of just ignoring that person? Well, news flash, you’re the issue.
I am not sitting here crying about someone flaming me. But everyone has his level of tolerance. What when 2 people are flaming, what when 3? What when 4? We are having a normal conversation here. There is no crying. Maybe you are here crying about people discussing negative things that happen in the game?
Ok, i correct myself. I was literally crying from laughing.
I believe your experience and CV. And you do have a point. I also agree that they have to keep bolstering.
Except… the dungeons from today have nothing to do with the ones in Legion. In fact, Blizzards policy in DF is: “play the dungeon not the affix”. And im quoting a blue here.
In fact, there are 2 dungeons from Legion in the pool, and they are by FAR the easiest dungeons. Bolstering weeks, or any other weeks.
In fact, there are so few mechanics in legion and WoD dungeons that to actually make the bosses and pulls worth my time in 2023 they have to hit so fkin hard as to make them borderline 1-shots.
Now, with out getting into details. Lets look at the recent DF dungeons to have an idea of where Blizz stands in 2023 with dungeons:
Lets analyze 1 pull from Nokud Offensive. One that you cant skip in the Spirit part of it.
Look at ALL the mechanics that 1 pull does. And then, compare that with any Legion, BFA, SL dungeon.
After you have done that, you will understand why bolstering is a bit of an issue in DF.
TLDR: Blizzard made dungeons harder be design so that you “play the dungeon and not the affix”. So if you add on to that such a disruptive affix as bolstering, you get unintended problems. So, Blizzard should tweek Bolstering as to be consistent with their own policy.
Ask yourself, why are 4 people flaming you in 5 man content? Why are they flaming you? Did you die from the same thing for the 12th time? While playing timed content? If you can’t put them on ignore, or actually maybe, realize why they’re then flaming you? I’m sorry, but you’re playing an MMO. If you don’t want any communication where possible criticism exists, then go play a single-player game?
Yes sure, treeboss one shots tank. Who cares? BUT… What healer class do you play? Is it monk? Sometimes, adding a defensive to a tank when they’ll be taking huge damage (like coccoon) helps.
You can actually do something even with idiots like that yourself.
But on the flip side - what kinda person joins an m+ group and spends the time trash talking another player which could cause them themselves to play badly through lack of concentration, resulting in risking timing of the run, by wiping the group, dying etc? As well as potentially tilting the group so any of the rest of the team leaves.
Maybe. But then dont have pulls like in EB with the flowers. That die to passive cleave even if you focus prio target.
So give the flowers more health, or give the prio target less heath with respect to the flowers.
Or increase timer so you can go pull–by-pull.
Thing is: If you do those changes you totally trivialize EB on weeks that are not bolstering. So what do you do?
OR maybe just admit that they made the dungeons with out considering affixes. And just make bostering a flat +50% more damage and have each stack simply refresh the debuff. DONE.
Just to add: The suggestion I propose would be even more punishing to groups that dont prio target bolstering weeks. So you would need to show even more skill.
Bro. Small mobs don’t bolster big mobs. Non-elites don’t bolster elites. Small raptors in Atal’Dazar doesn’t even bolster each other.
Now, you say Nokhud… Spirit part… I assume before 3rd boss? What exactly are you talking about here? The dodgeable damage? Abilities that can be interrupted?
Legion had a whole lot of RNG one shots too. So did BFA, so did SL. There’s not really anything new here. Be happy that they didn’t add the Legion dung (tomb of sargeras one? can’t remember the name…) to the damn pool.
They’ve not made the dungeons harder. At all. At the same time, they’ve HEAVILY nerfed the bolstering affix.
I’d rather keep seeing Bolstering, than any of these new annoying affixes, such as the incorporate one or the damn dispel one.
So yeah, you can’t say they can tweek bolstering more. Bro, they literally removed STACKING, PERMA and HP increase from it. They only do +20% damage for 20s now. It’s a JOKE
Well, if they bolster hard because mobs “die to passive cleave”… Then it’s a DPS issue. You need more focus target on big mobs. I see it all the time when I heal dungeons, people who don’t prio a big mob. Timers are already way too long in some of the dungeons.
Yeah, the hounds in WM is literally the only ones in the game right now that do. It’s a simple miss by Blizzard. Will 100% be hot fixed soon. They even STATED when they added this fix, that non-elites will not bolster elites.
Lashers are elite mobs. Big ones. Why would these not bolster the casters??? What makes you think these shouldn’t bolster each other? What are you on about? Of course the lashers will bolster other mobs around?
