02-12-2008, 01:07 AM
Quote:Don't take this wrong, as I'm not trying to put anyone down, but I'm not sure you and I are even playing the same game anymore, Skan. :wub: I mean, I understand your point, but, 25-man raiding is completely irrelevant to me anymore, except to point at the shinies that someone else has the time to get. There's a lot of other people out there that are in the same situation. To me, the new 25-man Sunwell is ho-hum, another instance I'll never see. To you, it's OMG new content. To you, the badge gear would be something you have to go out of your way to farm for. For me, Kara/ZA is still about as high as I get, *if I raid at all anymore*. I end up in a guild Kara run once in 3 weeks, about, usually, and I haven't actually been in ZA myself yet. So, as I said, we're not really playing the same game anymore.
Well, I completely agree. We're not playing the same game, really. The problem is that these two games coexist in the same world, and impact each other.
Now, I completely agree that people like you need incentive to remain and need content for you (in my opinion, a new T6-level 10-man should have gone out in this patch, but that's neither here nor there). I'm just not sure that the gear necessarily has to be T6 level to do it. If it's going to be badges, a new set of Zul'jin quality (ilvl 133) stuff could be added without necessarily obsoleting SSC/TK gear or progression. It's still an incentive to you; Zul'jin has a pretty small loot table, and raising everything to his level is still an upgrade for even ZA guilds.
And the impact, mind you, isn't on me. I'm sure not going back to Kara. What do I need BT-quality loot for? I'm wearing BT-quality loot. The impact is on starter SSC/TK guilds, for which this decouples the loot incentive from instances they should be running, both for learning and for simply seeing good content.