02-15-2008, 09:34 PM
Quote:Badges of Justice are dropping in Sunwell Plateau now. Assuming this means that they're going to drop in all 25-mans, your concerns seem to have been addressed, Skan.
Not quite. This is better, no doubt about it, since it doesn't completely split the loot incentive away from the progression incentive. As I said, that's very important.
But there's still a tremendous incentive to run Kara. As I pointed out in post #21, just putting badges on 25-man bosses is not a fix, because you still have to organize more people, do learning runs, farm consumables, read strat, and incur major repair costs in 25-mans, and you don't in Kara. Guilds on the margin will still stop running 25-mans to do straight Kara. Other guilds will still waste part of their time in there.
If they've gone so far as to put badges on the 25-man raid bosses, why not take the last step? Make 25-man badges a different kind, let them buy T6 loot, and require significantly less of them than of Badges of Justice.
If there's any reason to do Kara at all, people will go in there. And these people who haven't been much into raid content at all so far are the people who deserve to leave old content behind at last.