I played 16 hours a day for 3 months in order to get rank 14 back before Classic moved to TBC.
You recently changed the game to make it easier to access the best PVP gear of the game (rank 14), the reason being that it is harder for players now because the population is lower.
Ok then make accessing the best PVE gear easier too (Naxxramas) since it is harder to find 40 players to raid with (not impossible, but harder because less population)
No reason why PVP gear should be made easier, and not PVE gear. You nerfed the difficulty for PVP gear, fine, nerf Naxxramas too then. Reduce the Health and Damage of all Naxxramas monsters by 50%, so that it can be done by a raid of 20 people.
No?
Not going to make Naxxramas easier?
Then don’t make Rank 14 easier.
It is not harder to find people. The problem is picky raid leaders who demands 5x world buffs, flasks, bis gear, best class composition. All WoW can do
1- remove world buffs or make them easy to get
2- Buff naxx attune reputation
3- controll inflation caused by thousands of bots, because their gold farm results in increase of flask prices.
If those 3 conditions not satisfied, you won’t be raiding soon, when the hype dies you wont even see that people who are begging to join your raids without flasks or world buffs.
No I don’t think so. And in fact, I didn’t run any bot.
Back then you decayed ranks (plural) if you took a break.
Back then Rank 14 was an actual rank! You were competing against other players, and you had to be among the ones with most honour. It was crazy
Now it’s just riskless farming with no competition. Rank 14 guaranteed.
Not even a rank anymore, everyone can be Rank 14. Wtf. I can already hear Oprah giving it away to all…
It is too late and there is no way to fix this anymore. So many people already invested their time and got their R14 title and gears.
My recommendation for blizzard is to add new-title and new ( slightly better ) gear sets which are as hard as to get like it used to be. Maybe it is time for R15 - R16 - R17 - R18, calculated by HK, Kill streak, won duels against different people and many other difficult grinds.
Speaking of difficulty regarding r14 or naxx is just wrong. Easy/Hard has nothing to do with both.
The current ranking system is BY FAR more time consuming than sandranking on a dead Era server which tons of people did. Ranking was never hard or challenging from a difficulty perspective, you just had to grind bgs for a longer period of time and/or put up with some weird ranking mafia if you did it “for real”. Your naxxramas argument is weird aswell, youre not speaking about lowering difficulty but demanding for it to be more accessible by making it a 20-man raid. Considering that you can run all raids with pugs almost every weekend evening with the current Era server pop, thats a strange call aswell.
Ive raided plenty of naxxramas on half dead Era servers with a non tryhard, slacky worldbuffed and undergeared guild, there were people in greens and we still made it to sapphiron, where we hit a resistance wall (not a difficulty/skill issue).
Tbh most are probably just farming for the weapons as they are pretty much BiS for a lot of PvP focussed builds, the greatsword top end damage for reck bombing for example. Also stacking the stamina pvp pieces (which are effectively like T2.5) can be beneficial in PvP for duels etc. Although the NAXX pieces greatly scale damage its benefit is often only seen in a prolonged fight (which generally a duel or 1v1 isn’t).
The best thing about being a hunter in classic is that when it comes to PvP the gear after AV/BWL really ain’t all that, even when it comes to scaling damage in PvE. Its a night and day difference from say a Shaman who in NAXX gear can one-shot someone/anyone every couple of minutes.
, are you?
