07-12-2006, 06:40 AM
Quote:For instance I'm impressed with the new AV - a few near MC quality rewards for a sensibly long grind that's actually fun to do. My warrior will hit exalted tomorrow after about 40 hours in the instance and buy four items. That's about ten hours per epic; other classes don't do as well, but even twenty hours per upgrade is near enough to the rewards per hour from raiding that it doesn't feel like punishment for not raiding. Hopefully the PVP review will bring the other battlegrounds and the honour system up to the same standard.
Here is a disconnect. It seems to me that nonraiders think of toons that are just getting geared by guilds that have raid instances on farm mode, and think that 10 hr/epic is really a somewhat decent pace. It roughly fits the gear curve that they experienced from 1-60. They don't realize that if they had gear handed to them at this rate, rather quickly they would run out of slots, and completly out of content. They don't realize how steeply the curve has to jump up to try and keep people from running out of stuff to do. I'm on about 17 raided for epics, after more then a year of pretty solid raiding. 10 hr/epic is a joke, as is the new AV.
Keep in mind, if they nerfed AB and WSG the way they nerfed AV, you would be out of PvP rewards in a month, and nerfing AV has already dropped any semblance of requiring skill from the honor system. Either the entire server will be HWL soon, or the system just rewards people who fish near FW. 200k honor for 200 HK last week.
And that's not even getting into if general races are "actually fun to do".