07-24-2010, 02:56 AM
(07-23-2010, 02:49 AM)Mavfin Wrote: I can always hope that Blizzard finds a way to break it. Probably not easy, but possible. They broke AVR (it needed it), so maybe they'll toss this in, too.
Hasn't blizzard broken GS by making 10 and 25 man raids share a raid lock? I suppose you can pug a raid with alts and non-guilded but it will be much more difficult. (As you noted there is a use for GS it's just used poorly by many.) There may be a slight chance that instance play will be challenging enough to really warrant a gear check but challenging instance content will be detrimental to the LFD tool. LFD, battlegroup pvp and now shared 10 and 25 man locks all limit your ability to interact on a social level with people outside your guild.
In some ways these changes are great but they do take away from the community feel of your server. Knowing the toons on your server (not the people) may be the reason that there is such nostalgia for Vanilla. Would there really be much difference in the game now if your instance or pvp experience was populated by NPCs?