09-23-2007, 12:22 AM
Quote:The original attunements for Molten Core and Blackwing Lair were due to a change in design philsophy. They had originally intended people to trounce through those easy "5-man" instances in order to get to the raid. The entrances to the Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, and Naxxramas were in Blackrock Depths, Blackrock Spire, and Stratholme, respectively.
The reason they were put in was as a way of bypassing the superfluous content in the case of the first two. Makes sense, right?
Nah, the BWL/MC attunements were put in because they started to put restrictions on the numbers in regular instances. Those attunements allowed you to warp directly to the dungeon, otherwise it would be impossible to get into a 40 man dungeon if the gateway only allowed 5 people.
Personally, I don't mind then attunements so much. For the most part, if you can't get them done, you probably don't really belong in the dungeon they are guarding. And I ran a crap ton of heroic pens back when you needed it for SSC.
I think that account-wide attunement and backflagging (like the vashj/kael scrolls) would cut down on the complaining. Also, I think the major attunements should go on the 1 shot encounters like Mag, and the long instances should be more relaxed.
Quote:Except the story has been butchered by Metzen so they could introduce space squids zipping around in dimension-hopping starships. Among other things.
As much as I agree with you, I don't think it's helpful to bring it up every time the story is mentioned.