June News/Discussion

[Delc]

I don't get this comment. The original versions of the heroics, running them in the greens and blues that people had at the time, were quite a challenge. But they had to be nerfed because some of the mechanics were just stupid. At that level of gear, pre 2.1, you needed certain group compositions to run heroic Shattered Halls (considered the hardest of them all). Heroic Arcatraz's end-boss couldn't be done with just one healer unless you got very lucky with his choices of mind flays. And there were other stupid things like Underbog Colossi literally one-shotting a tank.

Yeah, heroics now are easy. They've been nerfed, and the gear people have trivilizes them. Nowadays I run around with +2550 healing, and when I was first running heroics, I had about +1000 healing. That kind of stuff has impact.

"Easy" and "hard" are very relative. Blizzard's learned a lot from TBC, and yes the game is getting more "casual" as we go, but when TBC first came out the end-game was pretty damn hardcore. Ask any guild that ran pre-nerf Magtheridon and Gruul what it was like back then, as hardcore raiders were quitting the game in droves because it was so stupidly hard it wasn't worth it.

BTW, nice seeing STSIs back again :)

-Bolty

I said nothing of the dificulty of the instances, I remember how hard they were (and I was fine with it). I just didn't like that the heroics were only the new instances. I got my fill of the new instances running them for gear once, I had no desire to do it a second time on the same toon. Whatever the difficulty level is, I want heroic SFK, deadmines, etc. Sure I can run them now with alts, but I think it would be fun to see heroic versions so they are a challenge.