🚀 go-pugleaf

Den 01-05-2014 01:59, Catriona R skrev:

>> Well.  As long as people survive in pve battles (questing, minibosses
>> etc) and actually they have a feeling of being overwhelming I guess they
>> really dont care much about gear and raids.
>
> Common misconception, mainly used by those who are hardcore raiders
> when arguing why the rest shouldn't get anything. Character

I'm not a hardcore raider.  I'm in a non-HC guild with a very laid back 
atmosphere and some of us finally killed Garrosh on normal a few weeks 
ago 7-8(!) months after 5.4 was released. :)
I look at my guild's members where many of them are fine with just 
killing a rare, doing a hc scen and a LFR now and then.  Most of them 
dont even sign up for our guild's weekly flex run where some of us uses 
our well-geared mains for carrying them through the bosses so they can 
get even better gear!

> progression is a big part of the game to *everyone*, not just raiders,
> and having been able to work towards setbonuses, and get nice looks on
> our gear while playing the way which suits those of us who prefer LFR
> for the last two years, it's not too nice to have that taken away now.
> You perhaps haven't seen the graphics on the LFR "sets"
> (http://wowhead.com/news=236594/warlords-of-draenor-transmog-preview-3d-armor-sets),
> but they're hideous imo, it's like greens, I will certainly be
> transmogging them away, quite possibly to the crafted or even dungeon
> sets, both of which are much nicer! Sure, not everyone cares about
> looks, but I know a good number do. And I think *everyone* likes to
> get good gear, I don't see the point in total removal of bonuses,
> maybe just make them exclusive to LFR and a bit lower effect (ie,
> normal raiders can't mix in LFR gear for the bonus), would solve the
> problem in a way that won't upset half the playerbase.

I dont have a problem with that.  Most gear havent been pretty since BC. 
  Today's gear is dark and dull and I wonder why it is that as the rest 
of the game is pretty cartoon'ish.  Its like Blizzard is trying to sit 
between 2 chairs - one with the cartoon style and another with a more 
updated and modern style inspired from many other games.
And the set bonuses?  Honestly.  It's still just a gear set bonus.  A 
huge part of the playerpool will see the endgame content anyway and with 
epics in every slot.  Just at a lower difficulty level.

> Gearing is changing bigtime

I catch up the information 2-3 weeks before the next expansion goes live 
as I dont feel to worry about it now as there is no official release 
date atm.
We entered May today and there has been loads of rumors with an official 
release date in august.  That is 3 months from now.  I still guess 
november.  3-5 months is plenty of time for planned changes to the 
planned changes to the planned changed..... in WoD.

The only brilliant information I've heard is the news about the revamped 
farm in WoD.  i've only heard about it from a guildie.  But it sounds 
like Blizzard are implementing loads of sim city/sims elements in it.
But again.  Blizzard also said they would make our farm in MoP much more 
interesting with the latest 5.4 patch.  The only thing we got is the 
more or less useless portal shard and another place to set our hearth 
stone.  So I've learned to not have any expectations to the content 
until the next expansion is just around the corner.  I just play the 
game and try to fit in with the changes. :)

-- 
Peter T.

<https://elite.frontier.co.uk/>