10-27-2011, 01:17 AM
Personally I think the biggest issue is that once you chew through the content, you're left with a grind that feels like, well, a job. Picture a game where the heroics are back to being easy-- do you really care, once you've got all the VPs you need? Making the heroics hard makes it harder to get to the VPs, but really only increases the amount of time it takes to cap out. Doing Firelands dailies is just a varied grind. Doing arena matches or rated BGs for conquest points, another kind of grind.
This is a hard problem to solve, and I don't think it's going to be solved in WoW. You simply cannot shovel content fast enough. That seems to me the real reason they made the raid content hard-- they wanted it to be consumed more slowly-- and players bit them back for it, rightly.
This is a hard problem to solve, and I don't think it's going to be solved in WoW. You simply cannot shovel content fast enough. That seems to me the real reason they made the raid content hard-- they wanted it to be consumed more slowly-- and players bit them back for it, rightly.