08-12-2006, 02:42 PM
Quote:One thing that I think is kind of lame, however, is that they plan to put a timer on the 10-man raid instances. I just don't understand the point of that since it means that you will only be able to do 5-man instances without having to worry about raid locks. Hopefully those raid timers will be relaxed shortly after the expansion comes out to be more in line with how the end-game currently works.
I at first thought that, well if they make the instance hard enough that you will need more time to get it done then this is a good thing. But then, when thinking about it even more I realized that for some of the smaller guilds that if you can't finish it in one night anyway you might never reuse the raidlock. That's actually how ZG, AQ20, and MC is happening for us on Terenas (and we are working on Rags now). We have yet to reuse a raidlock. We go as far in a night as we can in the time we have (4 hours is the cut off time, but many people will go 5). Hakkar is down, Ossiran I hope will go down on Monday. It's not like it completely stops progress, you still get the place on farm and it still ends up taking the same time block. Blizzard hasn't designed an instance yet that once you 'get it' takes more than about 4 hours to complete. OK I can't speak for any of the Naxx wings.
So yeah I'm not sure about raidlocks on the smaller stuff. Really anything shorter than 3 days will make it pretty much not usable for a sizable portion of players as far as saving progression and will just mean it's yet another artifical way to slow people down. I guess that isn't horrible, the game isn't really hard, but yeah. Maybe a system where if saving for progression really is the big deal that a boss just drops something that allows you to get back to that point again quickly. Dunno. I've never been a huge fan of raid locks to begin with.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.