Naxxramas Loot Spoilers

[Xanthix]

Is it just me, or has the game basically turned into a "release new dungeon with a new item set for each class".
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Seems like a new item set, a bit better than the previous is all that there really is.
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I would humbly submit that you are missing something.

Sure, what you see in the previews is the new epic items, because that is what people get excited about - people like to gawk at cool items.

But IMHO the things they are adding with those items are new dungeons with new mechanics, new bosses with new abilities, new boss encounters that require new strategies, new quests and challenges, and so on. From a non-raiders perspective, maybe raiding is just "Kill big boss, get loot." But from many raiders' perspectives, raiding is about working as a team with friends to figure out how to beat a given encounter. It is an interactive team effort that requires strategy, tactics, and skill. You can see this from all the posts that are like, "After weeks of effort and many attempted strategies, my guild finally beat boss XYZ!"

So if you are in a good raiding guild, there is more to these updates than another tier of meaningless loot. For those not in a raiding guild, I admit it looks like there is less for them in 1.11, but I am hopeful the expansion will have a ton of stuff for them - new tradeskills, new zones and quests, 10 more levels, new talents, new gear, and new small-party instances.