The raid is too difficult in many aspects. Bosses hit tanks too hard. The amount of mechanics certain bosses (not all) have is too big. It takes too much attention, communication and micromanagement to be enjoyable for an average classic player. If it requires third-party software such as addons or voice comm programs for a reasonably geared group to beat in less than 3 hours, it does not belong to classic.
We cleared the raid only having wiped 4 times, so it’s not a problem for me, but my guild is far ahead of the curve in terms of both gear and dedication, and it must be much worse for normal people.
I have seen people defend this and say it’s fun. WoW classic is a “do chores, invest time and effort and get your rewards” type of game, not a “pay attention, struggle, learn from mistakes, overcome challenges” type of game. While the latter might be interesting, it’s not in the spirit of classic. If you want something like this, i suggest playing Retail - or, if you have better taste, a game that is good and designed around it, such as Elden Ring.
Please keep all content simple, doable and player-friendly. Don’t double down on something that has already ruined Retail, don’t design the game for the small fraction of highly-competitive people.
I dont want everyone to run around fully decked out. BFD wos A joke. Let it be as it is, way to solve it is to fix the armor values of the bosses since now the armor values are way overtuned
Skill issue, cleared 6/6 week one, week 2 cleared in under 2 hours going at a chill meme pace. when you get gear it will be sub 1 hour clear no problem.
Haha what a load of bull, ANY player who cleared it that easy (I did it even easier in a pug btw) would not come here on the forums and say it is overtuned for some altruistic reason. You are just straight up lying to try and qualify yourself on this matter. Basically you must be a below average player cause I can tell you that the average player wont have a problem clearing this in a commited guild.
And so far ahead of the curve, lol, good pugs did this better.
The raid was actually fun having to do actual boss mechanics, why want a raid that takes 25 minutes to complete. Just farm dungeons if thats what you crave.
We cleared the raid now the 2nd time. It‘s much more fun than BFD however as a guild we use discord and coordinate.
For Pugs I agree it‘s quite a step up and maybe too much.
To cater both sides it‘s nice having it now at that difficulty for guilds and it will get nerfed later anyway.
So if your guild is ahead of the curve as you say, why complain? I have enjoyed Gnomeregan so far and will do until crybabies get it nerfed, gnomeregan acually feels like a raid instead of a 10 man dungeon like BFD did.
I hope they wont nerf gnomeregan for atleast 3 weeks. Last boss always dropping hes quest for an epic neck and also another epic so just nerfing it and “give it out for free” then they can just make a vendor and let us buy the gear we want.
And there is not much mechanics to keep track of more then on the 2 last bosses but if you set ppl on what they should do its so simple. We have an hunter who kills the bombs for example while we have 2 who presses buttons with 2 backups if needed. Healers are also standing at a button so they can help out or just get mana when needed.
Skill issue, stop complaining on the forums like a sore noob, Getting gear in raids should be a show of prestige and part the better players from the casuals. Maybe sims 4 is a more suitable game for you
I got to the last boss with a completely random group that has never played with each other, no discord , no prep. You must just be very bad at the game or the people in your raid are and that is fine, improve your skills, farm more gear outside the raid. Don’t try and ruin the fun for others, bfd was a glorified one button rotation and incredibly boring after the first week when they nerfed it for people like you.
My guess is it is because most players do not see SoD 10 mans like progress raiding and know they will have more or less 1 month to get all the gear before Gnom becomes irrelevant.
Strong from BFD experience where it was pretty hard to get BiS despite 3d resets and farming it like crazy in sub 30min / run unless you had a fixed team.
They want farmable and fast Gnom as well. Not 2-3h raids. They do not care about the raid after the first time clearing it. They care about character progression for next phase. Which will come too soon for casuals.
“Hardcore” players do not care they got 40 day one and started Gnom immediately.