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On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:59:27 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>Okay, so one time? In band camp? Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> was all, like:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:37:25 +0100, pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter
>> James) wrote:
>
>>>So Blizzard have tweaked and improved WoW have they?  To me the results
>>>look like cosmetic surgery gone badly wrong.
>>>The results are very poor, and you do wonder if anyone at Blizzard tried
>>>them out before releasing them?  And if they did, did they realise what
>>>a mess they made of the whole thing but couldn't face the thought of the
>>>resultant waste and costs if they trashed them?
>>>
>>>But in the long term this is all part of what I am  convinced is the
>>>"dumbing down" of the game.
>>>Last week I started to play Diablo 2, just for old times sake really.
>>>In solo mode, not on online.   And what I found was that even in normal
>>>mode the game is very difficult and in comparison makes WoW look like a
>>>walk in the park.  D2 of course hasn't been touched by Blizzard in over
>>>6 years and so is still in it's real "raw" state.  WoW in comparison has
>>>been tweaked and adjusted and updated and re-tweaked so many times that
>>>it's no longer the game it was.
>>>
>>>I remember when I first played WoW some of the early tasks were very
>>>difficult and took two or maybe three attempts to get past them and to
>>>develop the story and your character.  Not now alas.  And if I'm right,
>>>then this is a definite decision on the part of Blizzard to make the
>>>game as easy as possible and thus generate more income/cash flow.
>
>> Hmm, most the complaints I'm hearing are that it's too hard now -
>
>Uh... what?  I did the entire quest line for the portal on 4 toons. The
>only time I died was when the game lagged so much I couldn't kill the
>mobs. Hard? No, trivial.

There's a little more to the game than the portal quest though, and
I'm referring to the people on forums saying they're struggling to
level up, getting slaughtered in dungeons which were previously
trivial, etc :-P

The questchain is *supposed* to be easy; it's the intro experience for
boosted characters now, including Deathknight style learnign
talents/skills as you go along, so the first few quests have to be
completable by people in 483 greens with 3 skills and no talents...
hence, it will be easy for the rest of us. When WoD goes live, the
intro area in Tanaan will be the boosted character starter zone, and
same deal, so again, will seem far too easy to everyone else.