So, let's talk about soloing "not so old" content

[Iliyah-twisting-nether]

I’m not sure if it’s good forum to write in, but I’m also not sure if anyone from Blizzard even cares about it, so why should I?

Anyway. Basically the whole Legion content, no matter the difficulty, and probably Mythic raids from WoD (didn’t check them yet) has too high HP pools and you are not getting the usual “buffed damage” hidden buff. Yeah, I know, “it’s old content, who cares” and… probably no one. Yet I’d like to farm some old raids in Shadowlands, because I still have a lot to do and that’s why they’re still in the game…

Anyway, basically it isn’t enough not only to one shot mobs / bosses as it was possible in pre-WoD raids, but you also are not dealing enough damage to just easily and quickly kill them at all.

For example, just Normal Antorus:
So, the “Normal” pack of trash in Antorus on normal difficulty just before the “Garothi Worldbreaker” is level 47, deals not so much damage, but has around 150-300k HP. It’s fine, it takes few seconds to kill them, not a big deal. Then shows up the Garothi Annihilator, it has 275,3k HP and it takes few “bold” seconds (15-30, dependent mostly on your item level) to kill it. Yet then the “Garothi Worldbreaker” shows itself with 1.4M HP. On normal. Where even the World Bosses in Shadowlands are having less HP than this one 2 expansions old raid boss.

Then I switched directly to Mythic. I needed 3 minutes to just kill all the packs before the very first boss (my DH is low item level so it’ll probably change a bit if I manage to get better ilvl / gear / items), because some “genius” idea of reducing AOE and applying it everywhere. The Garothi Annihilator there, on Mythic, has 917,1k HP and it takes another 3 minutes to just kill it. And then shows up him, the star of the evening - Garothi Worldbreaker. With 4.6M HP. I didn’t kill it, because I’m not sure if I have a 1 free hour to just kill it. And I’m not sure if the boss won’t slap me away in the meantime saying that my damage is simply pathetic and disgusting or just “come back after Shadowlands”.

What’s more interesting, it was soloable even in BFA and damn, killing everything was quick. Now the very first pack of the mobs in Mythic Antorus takes few minutes too much than it usually should have.

Why?

[Cerwen-quelthalas]

because level-scaling?
there is only so much balancing blizz have time to do. old raids, especially on normal and mythic, are not so important as more mainstream questing/levelling content.

To be frank, I was more concerned that legion content would become impossible due to the level rescale. let’s be glad that we can still clear this content. and let’s face it, 3 minutes really isn’t that much on the grand scale of things. And when our ilvl gets bigger, then we can expect to one-shot them in mythic… XD

This is so ridiculous for me to say this even… I mean soloing last expansions content… it’s crazy. we couldn’t do that before. even at the end of BFA I could solo BFA dungeons. it’s insane. We’re in the golden age of solo.

[Mclovin-stormscale]

They really do need to fix this
It shouldn’t be harder to do old content now than it was in bfa
We should get stronger not weaker

[Yorda-aszune]

Legion should be easy as pie to solo, go in with nothing and punch them to death in a hit or two. It’s a really old expansion now, yet it seems to be getting propped like it was an expansion which just got replaced.

[Ceressà-stormscale]

I was really looking forward to soloing Legion content this expansion but it seems like I have to wait for a fix.

I prefer they focus on Shadowlands though. There’s a lot of stuff that need fixing and there’s only so much they can do at a time.

I say patience, I’m sure they’re aware of this issue.