08-12-2006, 05:03 PM
Quote:Since release:
- 1 new level 60 5-man dungeon + tweaks to existing 5-mans
vs
- 2 20-man instances
- 3 40-man instances
I imagine any whining from "the casuals" is a product of being almost completely ignored for 18 months.
Non-hardcore raiders got:
- 1 Three wing level 60 5-man dungeon.
- 3 Battlegrounds
- An entire zone (Silithus) and revamped two others (Hinterlands and Searing Gorde)
- Darkmoon Faire
- Lots of holiday events
- World events -- elemental invasions, the AQ Gate openning event, and the Scourge Invasion (wish the last one lasted longer)
- Tier 0.5 quests along with revamps of three existing level 60 dungeons
- Grindable quests and rewards in Silithus, EPL, and Furbolg country.
- New Bloodsail Buccaneer quests! Yarrr!
- The STV Fishing Extravaganza
- Two semi-casual 20-man instances.
Hard-core raiders got:
- 3 40-man instances
The reason why it feels like raiders have gotten all the new content is because it takes months to work one's way through the 40-man dungeons, so it feels like "Omg! The big raiding guilds always have new content each week!" Well, yeah, on average, they get one whole new boss to defeat each week. Otherwise, they're slogging through the same content they were doing before. On the other hand, the casual content that has been released tends to be completed very quickly (or for the grinding quests involves doing the same thing repeatedly). It took, what, a week for most people to have seen all that Dire Maul had to offer when it came out. ZG was fun, and yes, I went through it and the whole learning curve with a group all in low quality blues with an alt on Twisting Nether. But even with this group, it only took a couple weeks to learn and finish ZG. It doesn't compare to the months-long learning curves of AQ40 or Naxxramas. I'm looking forward to having new content in the expansion that takes small groups a long time and a lot of effort to learn and finish, too.