So I was right about WoW.. 

My takeaway from this is: Nixxiom, who loves wow, wants it to be more role-play centered because that's what he likes. Unfortunately that aspect of the game wasn't forgotten, it was abandoned a decade ago. Sadly having more abilities in wow doesn't give you that opportunity to be what you want, at maximum you can only be "a warrior" or "a paladin". In honesty, the game Nix wants is the reason why I started my game dev journey. It's just not wow anymore. The add-on discussion is a misfire. You don't want add-ons, you want a better game.

I tried to get into WoW when Dragonflight was released, but I really couldn't and one of the reasons was that on top of figuring out the game I also had to figure out which addons to get and how to use them effectively

The fact that asmon can tell you what patch>instance>boss for 99% of the gear during a xmog contest is all you need to know about his in-game resume.

27:10 "I want to have a bunch of spells and abilities that i can choose from..." - proceeds to look at icy veins on daily basis to see the best rotation for most damage

The biggest problem with remove all addons is that blizzard is laughably incompetent at ui design.

Haha, cheers for watching our video, hope you enjoyed it :D

I loved all the MoP buttons it was amazing. When you mastered it you actually got into flow states from managing so many things at once. Mistweaver in BGs..if you didnt play it man you missed something. Placing Healing Spheres on the ground for uber-heals instead of just watching raidframes but still staying aware of those for normal heals and dispels while juggling 5 CCs, 4 movement abilities, heal cd's, defensive cd's and looking for low enemies to help get the kill....boy that was mastery.

42:00 the old Lord of the Rings Online has features to combine all your bags into one panel or shrink 5 bags down to 4 or less, you can fully rearrange the UI, its not impossible, never let a dev tell you something is impossible.

What makes an mmo fun… 1) Combat System 2) Character Progression 3) Community Engagement What is not fun? 1) High barrier of entry for new players (add-ons, poorly designed and over punishing mechanics, class complexity) 2) Adverse of anything above

I regularly play with a woman who is in her 70's and she always gets overwhelmed with addons. It's too much for her. She just gets on to collect items from old raids etc. The way I spend my time in WoW is usually figuring out how I can solo old raids for her to collect mogs/items. All because she has no idea what's going on in raids that are killing her.

I play a melee hunter in Classic SoD, and that's nearly impossible to do without a basic weak aura that displays when Flanking Strike and Raptor Strike are off cooldown. The problem is that Raptor Strike can reset it's own cooldown on each use, and also reset the cooldown of Flanking Strike. Well, you can either look at the mobs you're fighting, or look at your action bar to know when each ability is off cooldown, which can be any time at random. Setting up a weak aura that displays a small icon next to my character, in combat, gives me that cooldown info and allows me to continue playing like normal. I'm not sure if this would ever be a default UI option.

16:54 1000% Look at halo skulls. Imagine if there were similar modifiers you could add to raids for different/additional rewards.

Destroy addons and watch mythic raiding crumble. You shouldnt need a glossary of addons to make raiding/certain fights possible. Thats bad design.

nixion literally partners with zygors, ofc he does not want add ons to be deleted xDD

Having done mythic raid it involves grinding the appropirate gear, learning the raid, becoming accepted into an appropriate raiding group, gathering the required gold and/or consumables. Then commiting time (above what you already commited). My eyesight isnt the best, I am impatient about keeping up with the grind but I've done it before and it isn't because i'm a top player. In the DF expansion the guild I'm in had a raid group and it split into a mythic group and a heroic group. There were people in the heroic group that finished heroic but the group trailed off. I think there ended up being too many distractions and it was not easy to casually move people in and out of the group as they had other commitments. Looking at how fast the race to world first is going on now compared to how long it took out way back when there were not only puzzles that had to be figured out but there wasn't a huge structure of support people getting the raiders the gear needed. I like hard options (pvp, things like visions in BFA, the maw in Shadowlands) and I like working with large groups (sometimes) but watching normal people break down tear their hair out & groups that like to play the game go insane because they are trying to raid is really stressful. On raid trash: it is very odd to has trash in a raid that wipes a group that isn't being wiped by the nearby bosses. Before our heroic group quit raiding we were having to invite pugs and every week our raid leader had to explain the raid again, and again, and on some bosses ask if people had a specific weakaura. My particular weakness in the end was the flying interlude on the last 2 bosses which just required practice, which you could not get without grinding high content (it was not just dragon flying but learing how to avoid certain lights and pick up other lights). And yet nobody wants to invite someone to play heroic raid another time that same week and reduce the loot chances for the group. So basically wow was weeding out guild groups where the group didn't make it to the end and most of the individuals in the group didn't run off and pug the same content to get the practice in. That is basically punishing the casual 90% of any fun guild.

In Wildstar you had 8 slots to put your spells and skills in. Each class had a lot more than 8 spells and skills, but you could only choose 8 for your rota. I think that was a great system. There was a meta for most classes, obviously, but it still allowed customization and playing felt tight and engaging, compared to WoW's playing-a-piano level of skills to juggle.

the guy sponsored by a paywalled addon doesn't want addons removed. big surprise

The amount of comments regarding the content of a 50 minute video, 16 minutes after it came out, shows that people care more about their own opinion than hearing the entire argument before opening their mouths lmao

On the point for the difficulty scaling, this could be hard but it could still be possible. So like say a raid is taking place in an enemy fort, you split the raid up into 3 different sections, which effectively act as normal, heroic, and mythic. Yea it would be hard and probably would result in shorter raids, but overall, I think its a good middle ground for both camps.

Thinking about the loot point, I think about the Shadowmourne quest chain in ICC; it actually led to more people raiding because A) they were beating Arras, B) they were Earning stuff for the axe, and C) they needed people until it could be solo.

“No addons” obviously includes saying that blizzard should add all the convenient stuff that you fear losing if you lost all your addons.

Min-maxing is the death of fun. The feeling of accomplishment replaces the joy of simply playing, and with that change the game ceases to be a game. It becomes a hierarchy, with people investing far too much into it. As with all things in life, it's best to be first. If you're not, the door gets closed in your face and you end up playing a game rigged against you.

thats the thing ppl depend on add-on's for raiding because they are tuned to be so difficult you can't do them without which is bad and thats why i dont high-end raid because i dont feel like i should have to download the entire matrix to be able to play wow

I think a way to help with button bloat would be this. 2 generator spells, 2 spender spells, 1 ult spell, and 1 or 2 aoe spells. You can have as many spells as you want but that doesn't mean they should be in the main core rotation to play any class. Plus they can add combos to spells to make them feel better. For demo warlock, why not make it to were grimore of sacrifice turns you into a demon after so many of your demons dying. 6 or 7 spells for class and make them satisfying to press. There are so many cool things you can do. Unholy mini game after hitting a target use the parts you hit off to make a undead.

Oh wow, the guy who has a vested interest in an add-ons success doesn't want them to go away, big surprise.

Imagine needing 5 different mods just to beat elden ring bosses

Key depletions should be reserved for levels beyond what gear gives. Also we should be able to freely select which dungeon and key level we want to run at least up to gear cap.

I feel like eso does raiding or (trials) in a great way. Normal trials can be done with missing people or complete randoms, veteran is a huge step up but are all possible with skill and correct gear setup. Most of the hard portions of eso trials is all about mechanics and leaves room for clutch rezzing to avoid a wipe. Wiping spawns everyone back at the boss so no running back. If you are a hardcore player they have achievements completing in a time limit and no player deaths, completing these give you titles and skins to show off. Gear difference between normal and vet is incredibly minor and may only get you from 105kdps to 108 and focuses on timing instead of just gear tiers based on content.

Not to mention a 3 day, 4 hour raid schedule, but doing everything you need to do that week to even go to the raid. Farming consumes, mythic +, being caught up on quests, grinding things out, making sure your addons and weakauras are up to date. It burned me out so fast. It's a full time job.

Imagine if a boss in a raid had the ability/spell to turn off all of the add ons for the rest of the raid lol see how many ppl can clear it

What if they kept the difficulty where it is, but made the gear you got last considerably longer? Like if you complete a Mythic Raid the loot you got would get you to say Heroic of the next tier? So that extra work equates to a small break in the next tier?

About the "running back to the boss", I remember progressing 4 horsemen @ Vanilla Naxx. I mean it took ages.

One of the best times I've had raiding was in a no dbm/bigwigs guild. Everyone was actually more attentive and we had a lot of fun learning what the bosses do on the fly.

Elemental Shaman's main rotation in Legion was the goat. You had a dot (flame shock) to maintain, you had a spam spell (lightning bolt), you had a proc based on the dot (lava surge), you had a finishing spell that was based on damaging spells (Earth Shock), and you had two spells that you swapped out when you were in an AoE/Cleave situation (chain lightning, earthquake). There were oh shit buttons, there were fuck you buttons, there was flavour buttons around this but that core rotation made playing an ele a treat.

I have noticed too the days of ROWF is getting shorter and shorter. Before it took months before they done it. Until the addons came and it get shorter. And they can run M+ to get higher ilvl and powered trinklets so they can kill it faster.

There are ways to fix this and still balance the hardest modes for the 1%. Make the benefit of all the hardest tier loot be PURELY COSMETIC. Make it really cool. Like if you are wearing a piece from the current expansion the character gets a mild glow that is obvious. And if they are wearing a full set they get an obvious glow that they can set the color of. Make it really stand out and showcase the player visually. But the stats are exactly the same as the next lower tier of loot.

39:19 does a paid promo for an add-on, then goes on to disagree the point that add-ons should be removed... kind of muddles how genuine he is being in expressing that take lol

If you are a real one you know that the idea of a 20man raid is more realistic because out of a 25man 20 people are ready to raid on time 9/10 times. A 40man is a nightmare to wait on people and to manage.

Just like FFXI. it would take at least 2 to 3 hours of getting ready before a boss. Some kings used to take 24-72 hours to spawn and you'd see likshells (guilds) gathered and doing shifts to get a chance at claiming the kings lol

I think 2 difficulties are the best for WoW. For raids a difficulty that is as hard as Ulduar 25 man would be Normal and another one that is as hard as Cata/MoP Heroic would be the Hard difficulty. For dungeons you just have leveling dungeons, then you scale all non-max level dungeons to max level once you ding max level. At max level you have Normal difficulty and you have one more that is Hard difficulty. Now another thing WoW should consider is horizontal progression. They should scale all non-current Raids to Normal Raid difficulty in terms of tuning and ilvl(or slightly below 6-8ilvls below), this way every new tier all previous raids are relevant content. And you can do 1 non-current raid + 1 current raid per week. Then you can upgrade the non-current raid gear with Valor points(or some other currency).

My friend group and I, we didn't realize how lucky we were to get into Rift just before it went free-to-play and died a few years later. I miss the HL raids in Storm Legion, but it seemed so normal at the time. The litany of "user joined your channel" before we started, the way King Boss Mod lighted up a firework every time the boss pulled a heavy one, the adrenaline when you were among the 4 or 5 last standing in a party of 20... And if you wiped in Rift, one person spent their 1h cooldown "soul-walk" then mass-resurrected the whole party. Some had "fake death" skills and could reset without dying. Worst case scenario, the guild could plant a flag to summon you. It all seemed so normal to me, but really we were blessed. We lived through the last hours of a golden age.

Vanilla WoW was the best template for any MMO hands down. It needed some adjustment, but it's design had way more going for it.

The thing with many addons is that stuff should be baseline in the game.

If i remember right then there were raids in classic and tbc that did not get cleared in weeks or even months like lady vash or cthun. So idk if mythic difficulty is the problem since there there are 4 diffrent modes, with lfr normal and hc theres the right challenge for everybody, in the past the gatekeeping was even harder so this argument that wow is now designed for the 1 % doesent make much sense. I agree with the addons tho i wish there would be no addons in the game.

I enjoyed Vanilla WoW raids because the 40 man design meant that if someone crashed for some reason, it wasnt a complete wipe. Also, it meant that people could still have some fun and not be hyper focused during every encounter, if someone died to fire the raid could roast him/her without everyone freaking out. Blizz keeps trying to make the game so you cant communicate with each other, just let the addons tell you when and where to be.

My guild was doing Heroic and maybe a few Mythic bosses by the end of the raid tier. We had a relaxed schedule, played other games at the same time and were not good at WoW. It was the second most fun gaming experience for me after Souls games. Literally amazing. The only reason I don't play anymore is because my friends quit, and playing with random people is not as fun. I don't know, maybe the game is in fact designed around the top 1%, but it was certainly fun for us. I agree on other points, like add-ons and walkbacks.

I feel like what they could is just add like 3 charges on a key and if you fail the key all 3 times then it depletes.

Alot of games have gone to this seasonal reset where all the elite tier gear from last cycle is now base level for the new season. I hate it; nothing kills a game faster for me. I can appreciate the mechanic as a way to handle power creep but if you spend a significant amount of time going for something, it would be nice for that item to be relevant beyond 6 months. Plus the build to get that gear takes a significant part of the season so it is even a smaller amount of time than that.

Good times, when a single guild denies the entire server from achieving end game in mmo..till 2 expansion later

To add on to the single difficulty conversation: Even with a 'solved' game Classic Ulduar hard modes were difficult enough for a typical guild to take multiple weeks gearing up before registering an Algalon or 0 light kill. I agree and think this is a good level of difficulty.

My only actual issue with the game is its subscription system... I have to pay monthly for a game I already bought?

I'm at the 10 minute mark, and Asmon is speaking to something I was complaining about back when WotLK was in it's prime. The endgame is designed with addons in mind. My take back then was, make a customizable UI and ban addons. This would eliminate the need for boss fights to be more and more complex to counteract addons. It was a vicious loop then and it's only gotten worse.

For anyone with pollen allergies like Nixion, in order to breathe the free air during the summertime, I offer this advice: Take several spoonfuls of raw honey from your local farm, multiple times a day. Dissolve it in your mouth and then consume it. That's what I had to do, and it works. The important part is to make sure it's from a farm local to you, so you're building up a tolerance to the pollen spores in your area. It took me a couple of seasons of consistently doing this during the spring/summer time in order to be less reliant on this. It has immediate effects as well, stop relying on over-the-counter or prescription-based medications for allergies. Go to the source, the concentrated pollen spores in your local bee honey. There was a time when I couldn't even cut the grass without wearing a professional ventilator. Now I have no problem at all. Raw honey is the way. But once you achieve results, keep consistently taking at least a spoonful a day to maintain those benefits, until you don't need to do it that often.

used to be we had a few trash packs on route to boss, but they would introduce us to the boss' abilities. now, they are just like a parking lot full of road humps. their idea of making bosses more difficult apparently means to make so much go on that u have to move constantly, while at the same time making it possible for one person to wipe the raid.

i knew raiding had an issue when i got to stone legion generals in CN on mythic and as a guild we went "were not gonna butt our heads against this wall, were going to wait for the nerfs before continuing prog" like what?

I have a friend who wanted to play FFXIV. I ended up getting the game myself to play with her. I ended up going with Red Mage and Dancer to get the easy rotation. She went Black Mage and gave up because the rotation is too hard, especially since the dungeons drop your level, which changes your rotation.

27:03 I would think the more RPGs you play, the more you’d realize that most systems do place lots of limits on the number of spells. For example, D&D always limits spells in some way. Even for “open spell casting” classes like Druid, which can theoretically use most of the Player’s Guide spell section, the Druid is limited to only the certain amount of spells they can prepare each night.

Adding raid difficulties gutted the amount of content we received each expansion and you can see that trend by looking at the dungeon journal. After heroic difficulty was introduced, the next expansion had fewer dungeons and raids, and after they added mythic, there were even less. After people complained and asked for more content, they did the bare minimum to add more raids and dungeons, but it never really recovered to pre heroic numbers

Tell me if I'm wrong but I personally think the Ulduar way of diffiulty is way cooler than join X raid in heroic or mythic format, having a tangible button or thing you do to make the boss harder for better reward is way cooler because there is like a choice to it, also gives a puzzle aspect if you know it's going to be there but isn't blatantly obvious. I also think having both 20 and 40 mans could be cool with different mechanics and different experiences and different hard modes with different cosmetic gear because it's fun I guess? It's that simple really, having a simple for fun differentiation between these two versions with no set in stone difficulty differences by affix but just purely a complete experience.

19:07 This is partly why strike missions became so popular in Guild Wars 2. It's literally one boss in an arena, no trash. You enter instance, kill the boss, get the loot, leave, go next. Granted, 80% of the strike missions are piss easy.

i have played on and off since vanilla. swapping between retail and classic the last years. recently i been a multi class tank player on a decent "high level". after taking a break i lost all my addons and weakauras in a reinstall. I can not come back. the setup and personal customisation will take me most likely as much time as leveling a character 1-60 in classic. im not willing to invest that much time for no gain other then having a proper ui set up.

So, going off of Nixxiom's video. Asmon Argument #1. I can agree with this. There's been a few times when I've come back to WoW just to check out what's new, see the new expansion, etc to only then have to go through the nightmare of having to read the 40 - 50+ spells just to remember what they do and where I need to put them on my hotbar. Then after that, make sure all of my keybinds are setup the way I like them and makes it easier for me to hit the spells when I need them. There's just way too much clutter and this is before I even get to the last argument. Asmon Argument #2 - Part 1. This one I'm on the fence about. 40 man raids would be awesome, but like Nixxiom said, it would be a nightmare to setup, get ready etc. Plus, I can still remember the amount of NOISE in voice comms during the raid. Too much noise is a huge sensory thing for me, personally. But, like you said, it's more of a vibe thing. Asmon Argument #2 - Part 2. Having only one raiding difficulty is fine with me. I was okay when they introduced Heroic, it wasn't a huge deal for me, however, once they introduced Mythic in MoP and fleshed it out more in WoD, I wasn't a huge fan. Having Normal and Heroic raids to me was like the equivalent of picking what difficulty you wanted to play a single player game on, you choose the experience you want to have. Once Mythic was introduced, it felt more like Blizzard forcing in more unnecessary gear grind for gear that would be irrelevant come next patch/expansion. Having one difficulty and similar experiences for everyone would feel better. Asmon Argument #3. I agree with this completely. Addons were one of a few reasons why I stopped playing WoW. The screen becomes way, way too cluttered with them and it did feel like the game was being played for me. I didn't have to be nearly as aware of anything when raiding or even doing something as simple as dungeons. I would zone out a lot of the times and just go through the motions. It made endgame content extremely boring for me. My biggest addon beef is with the parsing/damage meter addons. I really feel like raiding has been gatekept now because of them. "Oh, you're not doing (x amount) of dps, get out of here." I've had this experience a small handful of times when trying to get back into the game and trying to get back into raiding. I've been kicked from a few raids because of it, despite doing the mechanics almost perfectly. But, just like Asmon has his opinions, these are mine. I loved WoW - and a small part of me still does - but it really comes down to the game has changed so much that it just isn't for me anymore. I do want to see the game succeed and hope for the best for it. The players that are still involved with this game deserve it.

Regarding the difficulty, while it might not be as popular, doing a 20man as 15 or 10 imo is a lot more fun to increase the difficulty. Tried 2manning BFD at 40, it was really fun (Though 6th boss was impossible because it resets if you're less than 3 people)

27:49 i think it DOES make it mroe accessible; but one of the thigns i liked about wow is each class had ao many spells that even witbin the same specs there could be widlly different play styles.

At 10:00 Asmon says something about Add-ons and i think that coincides with the game being centered around "the 1%" Everyone uses add-ons > Easier time raiding (automating away difficulty) > Make game harder to compensate > New addons to compensate for the difficulty. A vicious circle that only serves to alienate new or "Casual" players. Thus decimating the playerbase and further relying on the "Hardcore" players. This doesn't mean addons are the root cause, but the fact the developers are continuously leaving the new players behind is the real problem.

They could implement most useful add-on functions and maybe let players install UI "themes". Maybe let add-ons be used on test servers to help find what features they need to create but some people might also find a way to cheat and use them everywhere.

would be cool if maybe if you clear the raid for the first time in any mode other than LFR you get a portal/hearthstone TO the raid entrance...saves time summoning and all that crap.

Wow, 35,000 hours of game time is roughly four years. Not gonna lie, I would've thought Asmongold had put played for at least five years or more.

Classic vanilla was so fun cause u only only like a 4 spell rotation. I think i used 2 different ranks of flash heal, renew and bubble on my priest

Everytime a friend talks me into playing wow again, I think long and hard about how long downloading addons and setting up my ui is going to take and I'm like "nah I'm good".

As a RP player, it saddens me how there is almost no RP element in WoW. Lore ? Everything is incoherent or retcon. RP ? Heck, we don't even have class trainer

Used to play wow back in the day and played for over 10 years. Stopped after the removal of talents (After Pandaria), but can’t seem to get back into it no matter how hard I try. Miss it so much, feel lost when I go back into it.

Mythic raiding is insane. The fact that a person who has full BiS from the previous raid, with knowledge of every mechanic in a group of 20 people who are all at the same level with a designated leader who has strategies for every boss ahead of time has a 0% chance of killing not even the final but the penultimate boss of a raid in the first two weeks playing 20 hours of organised time during during those two weeks is insane.

TBH ..people dont fight the raid bosses...people play the DBM...

i agree with asmon only no for 10 abilities in wow, but that would be also fine compared in what state is game for last 10 years

Im just wondering, is unnerfed Kiljaeden (TBC) or the Immortal challenge easier than new mythic content? Thanks

I'd love to see them make mythic and heroic raids drop the same ilvl gear. Give mythic a different cosmetic appearance or something to still set it apart.

Some players are in Blizzard's cave, and when they come to see other games outside the cave they just get blinded and scared, like how could WoW not be a perfetctly designed game, and run back to into cave to do some random reputation farm or smth.

This reminds me of when my dad came back to playing wow(hadn’t played since MoP, hadn’t raided since TBC). He was so confused by a lot of the mechanics in some of the raids, and was confused when I asked him if he had addons.

I would want them to try to have only normal/heroic drop items (remove lfr) and mythic only drop transmog/mounts. I think that would make the gearing progression/tuning better and make people who really enjoy raiding go for the mythic difficulty.

the difficulty in mythic raiding comes from finding 19 other players who aren't brain dead, then it's just repetition

THE ROACH LIVES FOREVER!!!!

Having both 40 and 20 man raids is the way to go, but different raids. Just like we had MC/BWL/etc... and then ZG. 40 man is way funnier, cooler and improves the community aspect of the game, but, having those side raids of 20 gives the possibility for smaller guilds / groups of friends to play together off-hours.

Go back to normal/heroic and and for the world first crowd do something similar to challenge mode dungeons in MOP and WOD, challenge mode raids no gear drops and capped ilvl some sort of cosmetic reward/title/mount maybe just FOS maybe the cosmetics/mounts are 100% drops in cm and lower % drop on heroic.

I used to raid back in the day, but it was all the planning and wipes etc. wasted more time doing this then the boss fight's and i agree i always hated i had to run back threw to get to the boss fight again, you could have the whole thing cleared and wipe and had to run back..

40 man I think would be fine but the raids would need to be tuned like they were in classic where you could do the raid with much less. My unpopular opinion on that is that I don't think you need to adjusted difficulty based on the number of people in the raid... Make it 40 man and have bosses drop 5 pieces of loot and if you can do it with 20 people then 20 people get 5 pieces of gear.

I am more in favor of 20 man raids, but if all the things Asmon suggests were implemented, easier raids, no combat add-ons meaning fights aren't designed around them, etc, 40 man probably wouldn't be as bad. Yeah you'd have to get a bunch of people together, but you wouldn't need all 40 of them to be top of the shelf mythic gods. Just roll up and go. An easier 40 man experience maybe with a little dash of chaos

Hire this dude as an mmo consultant fr

10 spells is perfect, 6 for general use 4 for situational. If the class gets a group buff it should be passive, like leader of the pack was. The Evoker is well designed in this manner, there are 6 things you do, 4 or 5 situational things to do and they can change depending on spec but you still have that 6/4 split. I am also talking rotational, obviously you have more than 10 spells on an Evoker.

Honestly, even if Asmon didn’t play a day of wow in his life his opinion would have validity to it. Why? Because WoW players vs other Gamers is so interestingly touched upon in this video. Staysafe also made a good point, a lot of players quit over the years. The solution starts with asking: What to do to draw players back to the game? Why do gamers who never touched wow say, “shit I could never get into that” or “WoW doesn’t look new player friendly.” As a current mythic raider, shit’s not that hard btw, harder dungeons and raids will not solely cut it while trivializing everything else.

Thing about 40 man raiding is that it can work, as long as required number to kill boss is less than that, but 40 is max you can have to make it easier. Soo let's say every raid boss was tuned with 20 ppl in mind, but every additional person can be counter as a "support" so bonus healing and dps that isn't REQUIRED to kill a boss, but would make killing the boss easier. Then 40 man would return with a vengeance and only try hards and world first raiders would have problem with it (also heroic and normal are already 30ppl max soo lol). Thing is that it would be easy to implement even now, since if you think about it, most bosses on wow are artificially difficult due to enrage time. Which is why you often wipe on mythic when single person die, because you can't dps boss down before enrage hits. If you remove it, i believe at least first few bosses on mythic would be 10'manable

i would say that the fix for all this is to have a challenge league or a type of raid progression that is outside of the normal heroic and mythic static raid. this would allow try hard raid first guilds to compete, while sustaining a continuity of core raiding. also add more farmable cosmetics that are tradable. not a fan of the grindhard rep system for crafting either.

I agree with you a 100%. I feel like with retail version of the game you just finally get gear to start either pvping or farming what ever it is and guess what NEW GEAR COMES ALONG and you gotta do it all over again. So in short you don’t really get to enjoy the gear you got. Sure i understand there are ppl playing this for hours per day and they might get bored with it but 90% of your players are limited with time.

I loved wrath. Played prot war, armor pen was hilarious. Played fire mage. Demo lock. Enhance shaman. Frost and blood death knight. Prot pally. When I came back in bfa I hated almost every class I tried. Pretty much just played fury war and bm hunter. Fire mage was one of the most infuriating. Hot streak was a fun proc in wrath, in bfa it was something you has to actively create with consecutive crits. They literally changed fun into work. work.

So glad Ybarra is gone tbh, couldn't stand the guy

You can show Asmon a picture of an item and wow and he will name it for you. Not only will he name it but he will tell you where to get it if it was from a quest, or raid, or world drop. He is wow

46:22 I also used to have a place like this... then the mayor of my town built a house there.

I remember playing Age of Conan and we had a guy literally timing stuff with a stopwatch on bosses and making calls, those were the days.

12:03 thats my exact problem with FF14 raiding too, you get BiS and then the next patch is out for the new tier and crafted gear is better than my BiS....

When i started to raid, the members told me I NEEDED this and that add-on. They didn't understand how I could come to raids without them.. I felt like they decided hiw I had to play what I could have in my game, in my inventory, what my skill tree should look like etc... It was like I was paying to play how they wanted to me to play, I wasn't playing. That and the fact that i had to respect the days and hours for them and farming and getting the buffs ( that will get dispelled most of the time anyway) made me quit 🤷‍♀️ I already had a rl job didn't feel like staying even if I liked raids.